ArtCOP21 is the arts response to the intergovernmental meeting on climate change, running from September to December 2015, alongside COP21 in Paris. If art imagines the world differently, whether that's by thinking, like Dark Mountain, about inevitable collapse, or whether it's by pre-figuring the world we want to live in, ArtCOP21 is a way to... Continue Reading →
Samantha Clark on Brett Bloom’s Petro-Subjectivity
Samantha Clark, artist and currently Phd student of creative writing, attended Camp Breakdown Break Down this summer at SSW and has responded to Brett Bloom's book 'Petro-Subjectivity: De-Industrializing Our Sense of Self' in the following text. Drawing on variously Ursula Le Guin, mysticism and Deep Ecology, Henry David Thoreau and Murray Bookchin, Clark's riff on... Continue Reading →
Environmental Art Festival Scotland 2015: what is art and ecology?
The creative team at EAFS needed help this year and ecoartscotland provided some editorial support for the newspaper and an essay on art and ecology as voluntary contributions. EAFS is an incredibly important development in Scotland (as was the UNFIX festival this year, also delivered by voluntary effort). The essay below attempts to highlight some... Continue Reading →
Evening Will Come
Today is the anniversary. Eve Andree Laramee, Professor and Chair, Department of Art & Art History Pace University, NYC provides an overview of 20 years of work on nuclear issues that started with reading a newspaper article on United Nuclear Corporation’s Church Rock Uranium Mill Tailings Pond Spill, on Navajo land in New Mexico. Sometimes... Continue Reading →
SYSTEMS BREAKDOWN
Rachel Duckhouse was Associate Artist engaging staff at Glasgow's Gallery of Modern Art around issues of climate change, in response to Ellie Harrison’s Early Warning Sign that the gallery has been hosting. The image above, part of a suite of images in SYSTEMS BREAKDOWN is the result of conversations with staff about their relationships with... Continue Reading →
Wallace Heim: ‘Art & Ecology Now’ review
ecoartscotland has just published a pair of blogs by Dr. Wallace Heim reviewing two important publications on art-science collaborations focused on the environment. Wallace very kindly also looked at Thames and Hudson's new book Art & Ecology Now. Below is her response. There’s a confusion in form in Andrew Brown’s Art & Ecology Now,... Continue Reading →
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