If you are in New York in the next month, this is a 'must see' show. Press Release: January 11 - February 8, 2014 [The Harrisons’] work is a prime example of the potential of ecoart to create knowledge that promotes cultural change. Ruth Wallen, Leonardo XLV, no. 3, 2012 Helen Mayer Harrison & Newton... Continue Reading →
Aesthetics of uncivilisation (call for visual works)
At Carrying the Fire, which was held at Whiston Lodge last year, Dougie Strang had asked me to contribute to the discussions, and I read a section of Helen Mayer Harrison and Newton Harrison's Lagoon Cycle (1985). The poem evokes the world-wide changes resulting from the increase in heat and consequent decrease in ice. The... Continue Reading →
Dirty Water – new issue of WEAD online magazine
One of the few publications that focuses on giving voice to artists involved in ecological work, the magazine of the Women Environmental Artists Directory has just published a new issue entitled Dirty Water. The issue features essays by artists including Betsy Damon, Stacy Levy and Jackie Brookner, as well as Chris Drury. Activist, writer and... Continue Reading →
Soil Arts Call for examples
James Brady suggested that the Soil Arts Call might be of interest to readers of ecoartscotland. Alex Toland who is behind this site is a visual artist and environmental planner. The Soil Arts Call says: If you have used earth materially or symbolically in your creative practice, or in some way addressed the value, function, or... Continue Reading →
Methodologies: HighWaterLine
Patricia Watts of ecoartspace recently highlighted the collaboration with artist Eve Mosher producing an Action Guide for HighWaterLine. Eve Mosher developed HighWaterLine as a personal project, but following Sandy's impact on New York it went viral (covered by the New York Times and the New Yorker), and rather than travelling around the world doing projects, Eve has... 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 →
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