How does the Covid-19 pandemic, the lockdown and social distancing challenge artists' thinking about making work addressing the #COP26 UNFCCC Climate Change talks scheduled for Glasgow? More than 70 artists, scientists, curators and organisational leaders met up on Wednesday 29 April 2020 to discuss how the arts can address COP26. In planning before the Covid-19... Continue Reading →
Coleman and Hodges: MOON – WATER – DUST, Residency at the Bamboo Curtain Studio
Jo Hodges and Robbie Coleman, artists with a social practice based in rural Dumfries and Galloway, tell us about the residency they undertook at the Bamboo Curtain Studio, Taiwan in September and October 2019. Using food as well as walking as means of exploring, they provide an insight into the political and environmental context. They... Continue Reading →
#arts4cop26 meet up
Date: 29 April, 18.00-20.00 GMT Venue: Online - sign up below How can the arts and artists work with environmental and civil society campaigners to address the multiple dimensions of the climate crisis, particularly in light of the covid-19 pandemic and COP26 postponement? Stop Climate Chaos Scotland, the culture working group of the COP26 Civil... Continue Reading →
Review: ‘Dear Nature’ by John Newling
The formal beauty of John Newlings's work belies his self-questioning and interrogation of our relationship with the more-than-human world. Reviewed by Anne Douglas and Mark Hope, unfortunately Newling's Dear Nature exhibition at the Ikon Gallery in Birmingham is a victim of the current lockdown. This in-depth review is for the time being your guided tour. Anne... Continue Reading →
Reblog: Global Environment Policy as political theatre #COP26
Reposting from Artists & Climate Change, Kyoto Forever? UN Climate Conferences as Political Theatre is a valuable exploration of the ways in which theatre can open up and imagine global environment policy-making, particularly as enacted in UN Framework Convention on Climate Change Conventions of the Parties (UNFCCC COPs, particularly with COP26 coming to Glasgow in... Continue Reading →
Newton Harrison: 3 recent videos including ‘Apologia Mediterranean’
Three recent video works by Newton Harrison - an apology to the Mediterranean Sea, a call to Scotland to become the first industrialised country to give back more than it takes out, and an installation to assist biodiversity to adapt in Northern California. https://youtu.be/ve-zt2IMQwU Meditation on the Mediterranean. Included in the Collateral events of the... Continue Reading →
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