The second of Wallace Heim's reviews of recent publications on art-science collaborations focuses on Field_Notes from the Finnish Bioart Society. Going someplace unfamiliar for an adventure, and doing this with a group of strangers, is an ancient exercise to stimulate human learning and imagination. This suspension of the everyday for the inspiration of the new... Continue Reading →
Wallace Heim: documenting art science collaborations focused on environments Pt.1
Wallace Heim, editor of the Ashden Directory and Ashdenizen Blog for 20 years, has reviewed two books, documenting art science collaborations focused on environments. Imagining Natural Scotland is the publication associated with a programme for the Year of Natural Scotland. Creative Scotland working with Scottish Natural Heritage and other partners put out a call for... Continue Reading →
David Borthwick: Review of Estuary, by Lydia Fulleylove, with artwork by Colin Riches
David Borthwick, who runs the University of Glasgow's masters programme Environment, Culture and Communication at the university's Dumfries Campus, reviews Lydia Fulleylove's Estuary, a new book of poems published by the excellent Two Ravens. Estuaries are, as in the title of one of Raymond Carver’s stories, ‘where water comes together with other water,’ fresh into salt,... Continue Reading →
Content of Nothing :: Part 8 :: ….it moves, actually, in a Reticulum
Judy Spark: You remarked earlier that you feel that for you it’s “important to keep a lightness to creative work” and I would certainly agree with you on this and I think that this does bear even more import for visual than for written work. Other than the ‘academic’ aspect of some written work, I’m... Continue Reading →
Content of Nothing :: Part 7 :: Making and Writing
Judy Spark: We have talked about ‘hope’ and about ‘wonder’ but looking around at those mechanisms that will seek to commodify almost every realm of human endeavour the second it appears, it’s easy to feel a bit dispirited sometimes, despite the legions of creative practitioners who are standing up to this – or that play... Continue Reading →
Content of Nothing :: Part 6 :: On Hope
[In the previous post, Samantha Clark had been talking about the ethical import of wonder in the work of Ronald Hepburn, Suzi Gablick and Jane Bennett.] Judy Spark: I want to believe in this link between wonder and ‘ethical generosity’ and even love and that there may only be a ‘short step’ from here to... Continue Reading →
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