Climart, a transnational interdisciplinary research project combining psychology, natural sciences and art has announced an unique commission opportunity for an artist to make a new work communicating climate change... the fees and timescale are ambitious - the only thing is that the result of this is one piece of visual art intended to affect viewers... Continue Reading →
Donald Urquhat – Recurring Line
Donald Urquhart’s drawing, RECURRING LINE, in full visibility phase at the Irish Museum of Modern Art RECURRING LINE : NORTH/SOUTH A line, measuring 1 x 100 metres, was delineated and planted with Common Snowdrops (Galanthus nivalis). The line runs due north and south. Each year, as winter yields to spring, the work announces its presence... Continue Reading →
Happy New Year and reminder about deadlines for the 2016 eco-art projects Jane Ingram Allen curates in Taiwan
Two amazing opportunities from Jane Ingram Allen
Reviewer needed: The Green Bloc
Thanks to James Brady for highlighting this. We'd very much like to have Maja Fowkes new book 'The Green Bloc Neo-avant-garde Art and Ecology under Socialism' reviewed for ecoartscotland. Given Richard Demarco's many years engineering exchanges between Eastern Europe and Scotland there may be a thread of particular relevance. If you are interested in reviewing... Continue Reading →
What can the arts contribute to a Land Use Strategy for Scotland?
The Scottish Government is consulting on a new Land Use Strategy for Scotland. This builds on the first Strategy (2011) and also on the two pilot studies done (Aberdeenshire and the Scottish Borders). At the heart of the Land Use Strategy are the ideas of Natural Capital and Ecosystems Services Assessment. and the use of... Continue Reading →
Chris Fremantle: ‘ The Hope of Something Different’
Thinking through the relation between social/community and environmental/ecological art practices.
‘One of the most fundamental rights is to have your understanding of the world recognised and valued’.
Chris Fremantle
Participatory art is a rich and diverse practice. Much of its energy comes from the creative tensions between different theories and visions, as may be seen from some of the reaction to the Turner Prize jury’s choice. But art is not only intellectual and rational. It is felt, perceived, practiced and experienced. Some of the most creative discussions happen within projects, between artists and participants (or, as I’d prefer to say, between professional and non-professional artists). That is why I think of it as a restless art.
And so this project, in its conception and unfolding, is a space for discussion, reflection and development. Other voices are not just welcome: they are intrinsic to what it is trying to do. They are being heard in the meetings and conversations I’m having…
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