Caroline Gausden suggested that SonADA's slowCooker series of workshops in Aberdeen this winter were closely related to the issues Sam Clark highlighted in her piece on Brett Bloom's Petro-subjectivity. The first slowcooker workshop with Kim Cascone took place last weekend in Aberdeen. There will be five more with different practitioners through to April. Check out... Continue Reading →
A Newfoundland Treasury of Terms for Ice and Snow
A Newfoundland Treasury of Terms for Ice and Snow: an exhibition by Canadian artist Marlene Creates November 5-13, 2015 opening reception Thursday Nov 5, 5-7pm Tent Gallery Art, Space + Nature Studio Edinburgh College of Art, Evolution House, ground floor, 78 West Port, Edinburgh EH1 2LE In two videos, seasonal phenomena are observed and recorded... Continue Reading →
ArtCOP21 – global festival of cultural activity on climate change
ArtCOP21 is the arts response to the intergovernmental meeting on climate change, running from September to December 2015, alongside COP21 in Paris. If art imagines the world differently, whether that's by thinking, like Dark Mountain, about inevitable collapse, or whether it's by pre-figuring the world we want to live in, ArtCOP21 is a way to... Continue Reading →
Samantha Clark on Brett Bloom’s Petro-Subjectivity
Samantha Clark, artist and currently Phd student of creative writing, attended Camp Breakdown Break Down this summer at SSW and has responded to Brett Bloom's book 'Petro-Subjectivity: De-Industrializing Our Sense of Self' in the following text. Drawing on variously Ursula Le Guin, mysticism and Deep Ecology, Henry David Thoreau and Murray Bookchin, Clark's riff on... Continue Reading →
Edinburgh’s Forest Ecosystem – Forest Planet
Thanks to Forest Planet for this fascinating overview of Edinburgh’s Forest institutions. We’d map onto that the various forest related exhibitions that the Collins and Goto Studio have done in the Tent Space at ECA as well as the Sylva Caledonia exhibition involving Collins and Goto Studio, Gerry Loose, Morven Gregor and ecoartscotland at Summerhall... Continue Reading →
Anne-Marie Culhane: Earthwalking
Editor's Intro: Anne-Marie Culhane creates events, performances and long term projects that invite people into an active and inquiring relationship with each other and the earth. She works as artist, activist and collaborator across a range of disciplines. Culhane conceived of Earthwalking through an Exeter Enquires residency co-ordinated by Arts & Culture at the University... Continue Reading →

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