The intersection of the cultural and the ecological highlighted in the previous post, including the ways that artists and cultural practitioners engage with cultural dimensions of biodiversity, in this case manifest in language, engages the cultural sector directly with understanding and articulating ecosystem services. Ecosystem Services and the associated assessments provide a critical method used... Continue Reading →
Walking Publics/Walking Arts: walking, wellbeing and community during Covid-19
Dee Heddon asked us to share this, and to encourage participation in the research through completing the survey (below). Walking is an everyday activity (more so since the shops have been closed) and also an approach used by artists, whether as part of a social or solo practice, to create personal work or as part... Continue Reading →
#artopps Ocean ARTic – Call for Residency Applications
Deadline: 28 April 2021 at 17:00 BST Two residencies, likely to lead to commissions. Artists will be paired with marine scientists, exploring data and science to create stories of climate change in the Arctic and its consequences. We are inviting applications from creative practitioners, ideally a mix of visual and sound artists for a data-led,... Continue Reading →
Ecosystems Services and Gaelic Report published
NatureScot recently published a report on the relevance of Gaelic language, place names, literature and song, tradition and folklore to assessing ecosystem services. This is a very significant development in approaching ecosystem service assessment through a cultural lens, understanding that culture is not just tourism and beauty spots, but is the articulation of values, uses... Continue Reading →
Unfix in conversation
ecoartscotland has worked with UNFIX, the DIY festival of performance on several occasions, including in 2019 when we hosted Christiana Bisset's embedded artist project. Chris Fremantle and Anne Douglas also performed at UNFIX 2019, with selected readings from the works of Helen Mayer Harrison and Newton Harrison. With the next iteration of UNFIX planned for... Continue Reading →
Calling artists and marine scientists
Deadline 5pm on 24th March 2021 ecoartscotland is supporting Ocean ARTic, a new initiative funded by Creative Scotland and led by Marine Alliance Science Technology Scotland (MASTS) working with Creative Informatics. The partnership has been established in a pivotal year for climate change negotiations at COP26, and the start of the UN Decade of Ocean... Continue Reading →
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