The video posted by A Blade of Grass as well as the information on their website highlighting Jan Mun's work with Greenpoint Bioremediation Project on Newtown Creek, a polluted industrial maritime waterway and Superfund site, is great. An artist doing useful ecologically-focused work, engaging the symbolism of mushrooms and fairy rings to address the significant... Continue Reading →
Why Land Art Generator in Scotland?
Video from the Test Unit Pecha Kucha at the Whisky Bond, Glasgow, July 2016, which provides a context for LAGI Glasgow. Thanks to TAKTAL for the opportunity.
Tim Ingold: ‘The Sustainability of Everything’
There was an interesting piece in the NY Times recently entitled Against Sustainability questioning the meaningfulness of 'sustainability' and offering a critique of the nostalgia-based version, Talk about “sustaining” nature, or “preserving” it, only exacerbates this mourning and indulges our melancholia. Like the bereaved who must learn to speak of the dead in the past tense, if... Continue Reading →
Opportunity: Nature and Culture to Revitalize an Island
International Creative Workshop in Megijima, Japan 2016 October 2-9 (long session) / October 8-9 (short session) hosted by SocieCity and Final Straw with Patrick M. Lydon, Suhee Kang, and Kaori Tsuji Ecological activism, creative practice, and community building come together on the Island of Megijima, Japan this October, and we want you to be a... Continue Reading →
Meghan Moe Beitiks reviews Soil Culture
SoilCulture: bringing the arts down to earth, from the Centre for Contemporary Art in the Natural World (CCANW) and Falmouth Art Gallery published in collaboration with Gaia Projects is the culmination of years of work—comprehensive documentation of a significant exhibition, nine curated artist residencies, and a Soil Culture Forum. It includes photographs and essays detailing... Continue Reading →
Thinking through the Anthropocene
Application deadline: 10am, Friday 19th August Creative Carbon Scotland is delighted to announce the details of their annual Arts & Sustainability Artists’ Residency (30th September – 3rd October). This year they’re offering up to eight Scotland-based artists from any discipline with the paid opportunity to participate in a weekend of discussion and activities at Cove Park, exploring... Continue Reading →

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