This collection from the Climate Change Policy blog would have been useful when we were writing a Chapter and a Timeline for the new Routledge Companion to Art and the Public Realm. Anne Douglas, Dave Pritchard and I juxtaposed the 50-year ecological practice of the Harrisons (Helen Mayer Harrison 1927-2018) and Newton Harrison (b.1932) with... Continue Reading →
‘From the Ground Up’
COP26 Coalition's free online festival will run from Thursday November 12th to Monday November 16th, providing a space for climate justice movements from across the world to come together, strategise, and build power for systemic change. Register here https://vimeo.com/468346637 Arts and Culture Highlights https://cop26coalition.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/ShortProgram101024_1.jpg From Ceilidhs to Colombian Contemporary Dance, we've got a huge variety... Continue Reading →
#arts4treescapes
The NERC led Treescapes Programme specifically articulates a requirement for Arts & Humanities involvement. The Programme Ambassadors are using #treescapes and we'd encourage practice-led researchers in the arts, curating and producing to use #arts4treescapes to discuss the programme and to highlight relevant practices and projects. For example, as a 'starter for 6', the following are... Continue Reading →
The domestic and the global: Emma Nicolson on how the arts will be at the heart of Royal Botanic Gardens Edinburgh.
We want to move on from the ‘white cube’ of yesteryear, taking a different tack that reconnects the house to its surroundings, but also to transform the house into a gallery fit for the pressures and urgent challenges of the 21st century.
The virus speaks #3
The previous pieces have focused on the ways that the virus might be speaking to us. Three pieces have been published recently by people who have been living with chronic illness. Caroline Gausden suggested Johanna Hedva who lives with chronic illness and their 'Sick Woman Theory' is for those who were never meant to survive... Continue Reading →
#artopps ‘Becoming Earthly’ @TheBarnArts
Becoming Earthly (building on Bruno Latour) reflects a need to develop a shift in perspective towards care for the thin skin of the earth that is the atmosphere and topsoil on which all life depends. We surprisingly know very little about this skin. The Barn is inviting applications from artists working across all media who... Continue Reading →
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