UNFIX Pt 1: Surveyance

The first of a series of videos from Christiana Bissett, embedded artist with the UNFIX Festival (29-31 March 2019) https://vimeo.com/326941897 Christiana Bissett is a Glaswegian artist, with a research practice in aesthetics and ecology. Using performance methodology her work explores how we perceive environment and how this perception impacts our imagined futures. Christiana recently completed... Continue Reading →

B. D. Owens reviews ‘Water Makes Us Wet’

Water Makes Us Wet: An Ecosexual Adventure, a film by Dr Beth Stephens and Dr Annie Sprinkle which premiered at Documenta 14, defies any easy genre categorisation. This film about H2O both charmed and surprised me. It is an artwork, a documentary, a sexy and outrageously fun (sometimes turbulent) love story and a valuable multi-layered... Continue Reading →

Reblog: Making Climate Change Sexy: A Journey

Coming to you from Artists and Climate Change, the story of a book and some advice on audiences... It’s a book for people who love the planet... and a good steak. People who care about coral reefs so much... they want to fly there. There's no judgement, just acknowledgement that it's a hard position to... Continue Reading →

How can Scotland adapt to the #climatecrisis? Exhibition and Talk

Newton Harrison, 2018, On The Deep Wealth of this Nation, Scotland (detail) EXHIBITION (TALK below): NEWTON HARRISON: ON THE DEEP WEALTH OF THIS NATION, SCOTLANDTuesday 12 March - Thursday 28 March @ 12pm - 4pmFree entry - Closed Sundays and Monday Join us at the Barn during Climate Week North East 2019 this March where... Continue Reading →

Grassroots initiatives in climate change-adaptation for justice and sustainability

More on Adaptation. The Scottish Government Adaptation Programme does acknowledge the roles of communities (even if not culture and the arts)

From Climate Cultures: Paul Michael Henry on UNFIX

UNFIX 2019 Image: Henrik Knudsen © 2019 From Climate Cultures: Paul Michael Henry, artist and artistic director of UNFIX, writes about UNFIX 2019 in Glasgow (29-31 March). "... People keep mis-labelling it ‘Unfixed’ or ‘The Unfix’ but it’s UNFIX: a command form. A verb and activity. A loosening, disburdening, freeing-up. Anti-fatalistic, with the assumption that... Continue Reading →

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