Ewan Davidson reviews Gut Gardening, Food Phreaking:issue 03 from the Center for Genomic Gastronomy, published Oct 2016. You can order copies here. Ewan Davidson is a blogger and self-identified psychogeographer (riverofthings.wordpress.com). His recent wanderings have taken back into familiar territories, those of ecology, natural metaphors and causality, he first visited as a student thirty years... Continue Reading →
Event: Nuclear Art and Archives
DCA in partnership with Visual Research Centre, University of Dundee, and Arts Catalyst. A day of artists' films and discussions about nuclear art and archives considering the kinds of knowledge and reflective spaces that contemporary art produces for rethinking the nuclear. As the civil industry starts to consolidate its archives at the new Nuclear Archive... Continue Reading →
culture/SHIFT ¦ two cities, two challenges
Creative Carbon Scotland's culture/SHIFT programme has two events specifically focused on key issues for cities - Aberdeen and Glasgow: What can be done in post-industrial North Glasgow? How to speed up post-fossil fuel Aberdeen (i.e. move postively to the post-industrial)? Aberdeen Green Tease: Cultural Practices in a Post-Fossil Fuel Aberdeen with Nuno Sacramento (Director, Peacock... Continue Reading →
Holly Keasey: Policy, Possession and Place
One needs to reflect upon US history and its troubling legacy of “placemaking” manifested in acts of displacement, removal, and containment. This history is long and horrible…how is Creative Placemaking different or complicit with these actions? 'Placemaking and the Politics of Belonging and Dis-belonging', (Bedoya 2013) As of writing this blog, I have a further... Continue Reading →
Holly Keasey: Is a river without water, still a river?
Holly Keasey's fourth post to ecoartscotland, as part of her participation in the Santa Fe Art Institute's Water Rights residency, focuses on different ways of experiencing and thinking about the Santa Fe River (such as it is). A friend this week set me a challenge to write a detailed, more phenomenological, observation of a small... Continue Reading →
A Field of Wheat: whose art?
This piece was originally published as part of the A Field of Wheat project in September 2016 at the invitation of the artists. The images are all courtesy of the artists. 20th August 2016 I got an email headlined “The Wheat has been Harvested”. It wasn’t a metaphor. A field of wheat in Branston Booths,... Continue Reading →
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