Liberate Tate challenges the oil majors' social license to operate, questioning whether the cultural majors, Tate, Royal Opera House, etc, should have sponsorship relationships. It's not even charitable donations where there is no reciprocal benefit - sponsorship is precisely about business benefit. In Edinburgh recently Bill McKibben held a rally for the Fossil Free campaign... Continue Reading →
Tiny Geographies by Chris Dooks
Artist Chris Dooks has worked in 4 key locations, producing 4 short films of each area for Atomic Doric http://www.woodendbarn.com/atomic-doric/. He has interviewed different people who connect with the places – young nature groups, walkers, rangers etc – recording sounds, photographing and filming with them. Tiny Geographies has created several hours of material including interviews... Continue Reading →
The Archivist
How do you represent ideas that are far away, remote or don't exist yet? The Environmental Art Festival Scotland (EAFS) was spread across rural Dumfries and Galloway, but its ambition was to represent environmental art ideas from much further afield. Exhibitions of ideas in the form of documentation can be very problematic, even if they... Continue Reading →
The Harrison Studio presents Wilma the Pig – YouTube
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BgsFnRzGrJY Helen Mayer Harrison and Newton Harrison tell us the story of the original Hog Pasture and why it matters that there is a pig in the MOCA Exhibition Ends of the Earth: Land Art to 1974. To understand the relationship of Hog Pasture (1970-71) as #1 of the Survival Pieces to the larger scale... Continue Reading →
Convocation: Colm Cille’s Spiral
Caroline Dear just highlighted the Convocation residency that took place for a short period this summer on Raasay. Bringing together medievalists, artists and curators, the video highlights issues of spirituality and time in very interesting ways. The video below is a good introduction to an exhibition that is just opening at Glasgow School of Art... Continue Reading →
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