Recording of Viviana's presentation which focuses on her unique perspective on 'the ecological turn', a move towards a more ecologically connected art institution, one that can expand towards multispecies understanding. https://vimeo.com/1121159934 Viviana Checchia is currently Director of Void Art Centre in Derry, where she instigated a living practice of Social Permaculture. Viviana is also Co-Director... Continue Reading →
Earth Climate Scotland – Deirdre O’Mahony
This is the video of the first Earth Climate Scotland (ECS) discussion with artist Deirdre O'Mahony, talking with over 30 participants about her interest in the politics of landscape, rural/urban relationships, rural sustainability and food security. https://vimeo.com/1112887154 Deirdre O’Mahony is a visual artist living in Ireland. Public artworks X-PO (2007- ) and SPUD (2009–2019) both... Continue Reading →
Guest Essay: Cabrach Reconnections, an art project investigating how people live in a specific place
This photoessay has been developed by the artists Mary Bourne and Lynne Strachan to highlight the Cabrach Reconnections project, started in 2021 and ongoing. You can follow @cabrachreconnections on Instagram. For details of the event on Sat 14 June 2025, see below the story. Introduction The Cabrach is a remote depopulated area of desolate beauty... Continue Reading →
Guest Review – Dave Pritchard on ‘See Here Now: Art in a Time of Urgency’
“…as an act of defiance as a way to care as a way to think differently as a capable future as a way to find out what’s in it for the forest…”Extract from “What’s in it for the Forest? The Writing on the Wall” – text exhibit by David Haley Jools Gilson in Weathering by Mary Wycherley (2023).... Continue Reading →
Enacting Gregory Bateson’s Ecological Aesthetics in Architecture and Design
Starting a two year AHRC-DFG jointly funded reseach project on the work of ecological anthropologist Gregory Bateson, together with Joanna Boehnert, Marie Davidova, Dulmini Perera, Simon Sadler and Ben Sweeting. You can follow us online at https://www.enactingecologicalaesthetics.com/ Enacting Gregory Bateson’s Ecological Aesthetics in Architecture and Design Anne Douglas and I discussed Gregory Bateson's ecological thinking... Continue Reading →
Reblog: For John Fox
In October, the post brought a small packet from Cumbria with familiar handwriting. The cards, prints and poetry chapbooks sent from The Beach House over the years have been precious gifts but none had quite the punch of John’s latest offering, Rehearsing a Future. On the back cover, I read: Following a diagnosis of terminal cancer... Continue Reading →
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