Sustainability is an overused word. It is much diminished by its occurrence in too many documents purporting to suggest that transport, local government or how anything is sustainable following the end of grant funding. But we know that sustainability matters and thinking out of the current construction doesn’t happen nearly enough. Tim Ingold’s lecture at... Continue Reading →
There is a work… 1 October, Edinburgh
"There is a work in the interpretation of the work" from Craig Richardson's 'John Latham: Incidental Person' (2007, pp27-31) As part of the exhibition 'Context is Half the Work. A Partial History of the Artist Placement Group' at Summerhall Arts Centre in Edinburgh. If you are interested in how artists can re-shape our perceptions... Continue Reading →
Art and Energy futures
Art, particularly sited work, can create a ‘third space’ for public discourse. By ‘third space’ we mean a space other than the commercial or governmental spaces for people to engage with issues. This is often characterised by being non-hierarchical, open and willing to embrace contradiction, uncertainty, etc. Probably because it’s created by artists who have... Continue Reading →
Partial history of artists and bioremediation
The video posted by A Blade of Grass as well as the information on their website highlighting Jan Mun's work with Greenpoint Bioremediation Project on Newtown Creek, a polluted industrial maritime waterway and Superfund site, is great. An artist doing useful ecologically-focused work, engaging the symbolism of mushrooms and fairy rings to address the significant... Continue Reading →
Why Land Art Generator in Scotland?
Video from the Test Unit Pecha Kucha at the Whisky Bond, Glasgow, July 2016, which provides a context for LAGI Glasgow. Thanks to TAKTAL for the opportunity.
Tim Ingold: ‘The Sustainability of Everything’
There was an interesting piece in the NY Times recently entitled Against Sustainability questioning the meaningfulness of 'sustainability' and offering a critique of the nostalgia-based version, Talk about “sustaining” nature, or “preserving” it, only exacerbates this mourning and indulges our melancholia. Like the bereaved who must learn to speak of the dead in the past tense, if... Continue Reading →
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