Dark Mountain "feels like the beginning of the story of the world. Not a world shaped by politicians or by global corporations, but by storytellers and singers who make us feel at home on the earth." Charlotte Du Cann, The Independent 14th-16th June at Wiston Lodge near Biggar, South Lanarkshire An intimate festival of ideas,... Continue Reading →
Second Sight/Site
The landscape as a context for second sight and prophesy. Place-led methodologies of research reveal and inform our understandings of theories and practices. Participants in the Second Sight and Prophesy Conference at the University of Aberdeen 14-16 June 2013 are invited to join a group of artists to explore land use, memory, topography, geology, nemetons, the Goodman’s... Continue Reading →
Beyond the Surface: Environmental Art in Action
This conference (announcement just received) has an outstanding line up of speakers - highly recommended. May 31, 2013 Investigating relationships between art and nature hosted by The Schuylkill Center for Environmental Education. This year our art department has been re-envisioning our environmental art program with a group of environmental artists, curators, scientists and academics -... Continue Reading →
Collaboration: Improving the Model
Steep Trail Conference - Collaboration : Improving the Model 12 June 2013 9.30-4.00 Brunton Theatre, Ladywell Way, Musselburgh, EH21 6AA The event is free but places must be booked. To book your place email admin@edinburghsculpture.org or call Edinburgh Sculpture Workshop on 0131 551 4490. The nature of collaboration, particularly cross-disciplinary, is examined with a view to... Continue Reading →
Continuous Cover Forest Policy
Cathy Fitzgerald has just blogged about the The Green Party in Ireland who have just launched it's Forest Policy (read the press release here). This new Policy argues that "Ireland’s public forests are at a point where, non clearfell, continuous cover forest systems need to be introduced and supported to fully realise the full long... Continue Reading →
Military Pastoral Complex
Matthew Flintham coined the phrase "Military Pastoral Complex" for Gair Dunlop's work. Gair's new book is photographs and a few texts from a long-term photography and video project documenting the slow closure of RAF Coltishall. Cold War and Battle of Britain mythologies combine. The roots of the Military Pastoral Complex are evident. Get the book... Continue Reading →
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