One needs to reflect upon US history and its troubling legacy of “placemaking” manifested in acts of displacement, removal, and containment. This history is long and horrible…how is Creative Placemaking different or complicit with these actions? 'Placemaking and the Politics of Belonging and Dis-belonging', (Bedoya 2013) As of writing this blog, I have a further... Continue Reading →
Holly Keasey: Is a river without water, still a river?
Holly Keasey's fourth post to ecoartscotland, as part of her participation in the Santa Fe Art Institute's Water Rights residency, focuses on different ways of experiencing and thinking about the Santa Fe River (such as it is). A friend this week set me a challenge to write a detailed, more phenomenological, observation of a small... Continue Reading →
A Field of Wheat: whose art?
This piece was originally published as part of the A Field of Wheat project in September 2016 at the invitation of the artists. The images are all courtesy of the artists. 20th August 2016 I got an email headlined “The Wheat has been Harvested”. It wasn’t a metaphor. A field of wheat in Branston Booths,... Continue Reading →
Holly Keasey and Fiona P McDonald: “Ambulatory Knowing”: Architecture, Access, and the Anthropocene
This post is jointly authored by Holly Keasey and Fiona P McDonald (Bio below), another resident on the Santa Fe Art Institute's Water Rights Programme. By ‘becoming knowledgeable’ I mean that knowledge is grown along the myriad of paths we take as we make our ways through the world in the course of everyday activities,... Continue Reading →
Holly Keasey: gravel pits, acequias and shared interests
Gravel pits offer a casual archaeology of the meeting places of nature and culture, past and present, construction and destruction, indigenous peoples and colonizers, art and life, creeping globalisation and local survival… Undermining: A wild ride through land use, politics, and art in the changing west L. Lippard (The New Press, 2014) The writings of... Continue Reading →
Holly Keasey: Santa Fe Art Instutite Water Rights Residency – Introduction
Holly Keasey is currently undertaking a residency at the Santa Fe Art Institute as part of the Water Rights programme. During the next 8 weeks Holly will be sending regular updates. “156. Why is the sky blue? -A fair enough question, and one I have learned the answer to several times. Yet every time I... Continue Reading →
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