This is the video of the first Earth Climate Scotland (ECS) discussion with artist Deirdre O'Mahony, talking with over 30 participants about her interest in the politics of landscape, rural/urban relationships, rural sustainability and food security. https://vimeo.com/1112887154 Deirdre O’Mahony is a visual artist living in Ireland. Public artworks X-PO (2007- ) and SPUD (2009–2019) both... Continue Reading →
Enacting Gregory Bateson’s Ecological Aesthetics in Architecture and Design
Starting a two year AHRC-DFG jointly funded reseach project on the work of ecological anthropologist Gregory Bateson, together with Joanna Boehnert, Marie Davidova, Dulmini Perera, Simon Sadler and Ben Sweeting. You can follow us online at https://www.enactingecologicalaesthetics.com/ Enacting Gregory Bateson’s Ecological Aesthetics in Architecture and Design Anne Douglas and I discussed Gregory Bateson's ecological thinking... Continue Reading →
Review of ‘Thinking with the Harrisons’
Iain Biggs has reviewed Anne Douglas and my book 'Thinking with the Harrisons' on his blog here http://www.iainbiggs.co.uk/2024/10/thinking-with-the-harrisons-re-imagining-the-arts-in-the-global-environmental-crisis-leuven-university-press-october-9th-2024-a-review/ He says of our project ...they write both as observant participants working from direct first-hand involvement in the Harrisons’ processes, and from a researcher’s concern with rigorous creative ‘thinking with’. Thinking that in the course of their... Continue Reading →
Shelby Bennett reviews Robyn Woolston’s ‘Yours, in Extraction’
When entering Robyn Woolston’s recent solo exhibition Yours, in Extraction, the first word viewers see is “EMERGENCY.” The word is emblazoned on a stack of ‘Emergency Beacons’ stacked in the middle of the gallery at Fort Worth Contemporary Arts (Art Galleries at TCU). The beacons are tall, black, poles topped with blue lights that immediately... Continue Reading →
Beverly Naidus reviews ‘We are nature defending itself’
In a previous piece for ecoartscotland Beverly Naidus, Artist/Writer/Activist/Facilitator/Co-learner, reported on her 2017 visit to the zad. Here Beverly reflects on the publication from Pluto Press We Are 'Nature' Defending Itself: entangling art, activism and autonomous zones (WANDI), the recently published text from Isabelle Fremeaux and Jay Jordan. The text is avowedly not a blueprint... Continue Reading →
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