Samantha Clark: According to astronomers we can only actually perceive about 4.7% of the universe. This is the ‘shiny stuff,’ the atoms and particles that we can actually see, the ‘things’ bit. The rest of it, the ‘nothing’ bit, is made up of ‘dark matter’, which is about 27%, and ‘dark energy’ which makes up... Continue Reading →
Sustaining Rural Scotland opportunity
£20k Innovation Event - 'Sustaining Rural Scotland' Chiasma 21 - 23 October 2014, New Lanark With the acceleration of climate change and increased pressure on our planet’s natural resources, raising awareness and innovating around environmental sustainability has never been more urgent. More consumers now than ever before have direct experience of climate change and the... Continue Reading →
The Content of Nothing :: Part 2 :: Purposeful non-doing
Samantha Clark: In 2009 was asked to make a proposal for an eco-art exhibition called Equilibrio Natural: Natural Balance that was taking place in Girona, Spain, which was to be a series of installations around the city developed by artists from all over the world. When I looked at the criteria, I noticed that I... Continue Reading →
The Content of Nothing :: Part 1 :: The Ether
Judy Spark: This work, consisting of a series of archive prints and a set of hand-made radios constructed from odds and ends such as copper wire, pencil leads and safety pins, was made for Cupar Visual Arts Festival in 2009. I had come across some references to a little known aspect of the town, which... Continue Reading →
The Content of Nothing :: Introduction
We are pleased to be able to say that over the next eight weeks we are going to publish a series of chapters jointly written by two of Scotland's most interesting artists working with environmental and ecological issues. In an interesting intersection both artists completed MA studies in environmental philosophy, on the MA Value and... Continue Reading →
Anne Douglas: What makes a house an artwork? On visiting The Avoca Project
Anne Douglas, during her Mcgeorge Fellowship at the University of Melbourne, Australia, visited with Lyndal Jones and The Avoca Project in Avoca, Victoria. In this guest blog she highlights some of the ways in which Lyndal and her collaborators have been demonstrating an art of sustainability, through a house and a garden. -- The Avoca... Continue Reading →
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