Tiny Geographies by Chris Dooks

Artist Chris Dooks has worked in 4 key locations, producing 4 short films of each area for Atomic Doric http://www.woodendbarn.com/atomic-doric/. He has interviewed different people who connect with the places – young nature groups, walkers, rangers etc – recording sounds, photographing and filming with them. Tiny Geographies has created several hours of material including interviews... Continue Reading →

Methodologies: HighWaterLine

Patricia Watts of ecoartspace recently highlighted the collaboration with artist Eve Mosher producing an Action Guide for HighWaterLine.  Eve Mosher developed HighWaterLine as a personal project, but following Sandy's impact on New York it went viral (covered by the New York Times and the New Yorker), and rather than travelling around the world doing projects, Eve has... Continue Reading →

The Archivist

How do you represent ideas that are far away, remote or don't exist yet? The Environmental Art Festival Scotland (EAFS) was spread across rural Dumfries and Galloway, but its ambition was to represent environmental art ideas from much further afield. Exhibitions of ideas in the form of documentation can be very problematic, even if they... Continue Reading →

Cape Farewell Northern Isles expedition 2013 – Orkney and Shetland

James Brady, artist and curator, member of the ecoartnetwork, sent us this short report on the Cape Farewell Northern Isles expedition 'Journeying from Orkney to the Shetland islands via Fair Isle, the expedition will consider the relationship between people, place and resources in coastal and island environments, with emphasis on the role of community agency... Continue Reading →

Could artists do this?

The question of what artists do is a subject of interest for ecoartscotland and we'd like to highlight two pieces of evidence. The first is the submission to the Environmental Audit Committee Inquiry on Energy Subsidies in the UK.  This submission has been made by PLATFORM who's strap line is arts, activism, education and research.  PLATFORM... Continue Reading →

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