Beautiful Renewables: Land Art Generator Talk 18 November 2015

As we aggressively implement strategies towards 100% carbon-free energy and witness a greater proliferation of renewable energy infrastructures in our cities and landscapes, we have an opportunity to proactively address the aesthetic influence of these new machines through the lenses of planning, urban design, community benefit, and creative placemaking. Please join the Land Art Generator... Continue Reading →

Slowcooker – deep listening

Caroline Gausden suggested that SonADA's slowCooker series of workshops in Aberdeen this winter were closely related to the issues Sam Clark highlighted in her piece on Brett Bloom's Petro-subjectivity.  The first slowcooker workshop with Kim Cascone took place last weekend in Aberdeen.  There will be five more with different practitioners through to April.  Check out... Continue Reading →

ArtCOP21 – global festival of cultural activity on climate change

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 →

Edinburgh’s Forest Ecosystem – Forest Planet

Thanks to Forest Planet for this fascinating overview of Edinburgh’s Forest institutions. We’d map onto that the various forest related exhibitions that the Collins and Goto Studio have done in the Tent Space at ECA as well as the Sylva Caledonia exhibition involving Collins and Goto Studio, Gerry Loose, Morven Gregor and ecoartscotland at Summerhall... Continue Reading →

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