As artists, we (Kerry Morrison and Kate Foster) have discovered a common purpose of embedding ecological artistic practice and research within peat landscape restoration projects. This post invites readers to ‘watch this space’ for how we are, and will be, involved in restoration work on blanket peatland and raised bogs that will be carried out... Continue Reading →
John Thorne: Psychology, Creative Practice and Climate Change
This blog comes to you from John Thorne. John is Sustainability Coordinator at Glasgow School of Art. Here he opens up issues which frame Saturday's Climate Psychology Association Scotland 1st Annual Conference: From the personal to the social: Climate psychology and the sense of responsibility. Booking here. We live in a time of great anxiety... Continue Reading →
Lecture: Patricia Watts ‘Some Kind Of Nature’ 4pm 23 April, Glasgow Sculpture Studios
ecoartscotland is very pleased to be partnering with Glasgow Sculpture Studios and the Collins and Goto Studio to present the lecture Some Kind of Nature by international curator and founder of ecoartspace Patricia Watts. Monday 23 April, 4pm, Glasgow Sculpture Studios (Board Room, 2nd Floor) FREE (download pdf of poster: 2018TWattsECOARTSCOTLAND-GSS) This talk will focus... Continue Reading →
Beverly Naidus: The ZAD Becomes Compost? LONG LIVE THE ZAD!
This post comes from Beverly Naidus, a friend and colleague. Her attention is focused on the ZAD (zone à défendre) after visiting in October. Recent events have made it urgent to relay her experience and why the destruction of this place in France matters. A month ago we drew attention to the Journal of Aesthetics... Continue Reading →
Helen Mayer Harrison (1927-2018)
We met Helen Mayer Harrison (along with Newton Harrison) in 2006 at a conference in Shrewsbury thanks to David Haley. We had the privilege to spend the next three years working with them to realise Greenhouse Britain: Losing Ground, Gaining Wisdom, a project which prefigured their more recent work through the Center for the Study... Continue Reading →
5/9
“Five-nine” doesn’t have quite the cadence as “nine-eleven,” but when we look back on the early 21st century, I believe that May 9, 2013 — the day the concentration of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere exceeded 400 parts per million for the first time in recorded history — may in the future be understood as... Continue Reading →
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