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 →
Anne-Marie Culhane: Earthwalking
Editor's Intro: Anne-Marie Culhane creates events, performances and long term projects that invite people into an active and inquiring relationship with each other and the earth. She works as artist, activist and collaborator across a range of disciplines. Culhane conceived of Earthwalking through an Exeter Enquires residency co-ordinated by Arts & Culture at the University... Continue Reading →
Sanctuary 2015
Sanctuary 2015. Noon 26th- Noon 27th September. Murrays Monument, Galloway Forest Dark Skies Park, A712, Nr Newton Stewart. DG8 7BL. A 24 hour public art laboratory experimenting with new ways of using technology to explore darkness, light and place. "In the future we imagine a need to designate places where we are free from being... Continue Reading →
Imagining the future food system: Center for Genomic Gastronomy at the Rowett Institute for Nutrition and Health
Source: Imagining the future food system: collaborating to advance transdisciplinary knowledge of biotechnology and biodiversity | The Leverhulme Trust The Center for Genomic Gastronomy styles itself as an artists' think-tank. In taking on a residency with the Rowett Institute for Nutrition and Health the focus will be Food Futures, but the outputs won't be the... Continue Reading →

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