http://vimeo.com/114576359 We've just put up an excellent video from artinscotland.tv documenting Crichton Carbon Centre's Nil by Mouth event (produced by Wide Open) at The Scottish Parliament last November. You'll also find background on the project, lots of info on the scientists from The James Hutton Institute, Rowett Research Institute and SRUC as well as links... 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 →
Create & Sustain: Alastair McIntosh at GSA Sustainability
TALK + Seminar - 14 January 2015 15.00-19.00 Reid Auditorium. Booking here Alastair McIntosh is a writer, poet, speaker, researcher and activist. Originally from the Isle of Lewis he now lives on Govan near to the GalGael Trust, for which he is a founding trustee. “ Most of my work is constellated by a passion... Continue Reading →
Funded PhD Opportunity: Performing Geochronology: Deep Time and Sustainable Futures along Scotland’s Western Seaboard
How can creative research investigation into the climatic and tectonic processes operating along Scotland's Western Seaboard can help to nurture and communicate a sense of the 'deep time' involved? This includes the 'slow' temporality associated with glaciations, and the 'quick' events of storms and flooding, but also organic temporalities, from evolution to settlement patterns. Such... Continue Reading →
Fallen Animals cfp
Deadline for this workshop is 15th January 2015. Call For Papers - Fallen Animals: an interdisciplinary perspective 19th-20th March 2015, University of Aberdeen, Scotland Following the success of the Fall Narratives project in 2014, this workshop will explore the theme of fallen animals. The serpent in the Garden of Eden is but one example of... Continue Reading →
Strange Attractor
If you are in Aberdeen you should take the opportunity to visit David Blyth's exhibition at the Georgina Scott Sutherland Study Centre, Aberdeen Business School, Garthdee, before going to the discussion being held at Aberdeen Art Gallery at 2pm on Saturday 13 December. This first event in a series of three brings together artist David... Continue Reading →

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