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 →
A Newfoundland Treasury of Terms for Ice and Snow
A Newfoundland Treasury of Terms for Ice and Snow: an exhibition by Canadian artist Marlene Creates November 5-13, 2015 opening reception Thursday Nov 5, 5-7pm Tent Gallery Art, Space + Nature Studio Edinburgh College of Art, Evolution House, ground floor, 78 West Port, Edinburgh EH1 2LE In two videos, seasonal phenomena are observed and recorded... 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 →
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 →
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 →
Call for Ideas – Edinburgh International Science Festival
Edinburgh International Science Festival is the mother of all science festivals and they have a call for ideas out at the moment (Closing 1 September 2015). They have highlighted their ambitions for the 2016 Festival as follows, In 2016 we will transform the halls, gardens, theatres and galleries of Edinburgh into dens of debate, exploring... Continue Reading →

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