Does the (natural) world exist to provide 'services' for human beings? Should we attempt to justify the importance of bees or trees or rivers or mountains or bacillus acidophilus in terms of an ecosystems services analysis, i.e. what services they provide to us? Alternatively should we analyse what services we provide to ecosystems? This question... Continue Reading →
Oil, photography
Following up on Louis Helbig's presentation at Edinburgh College of Art comes Suzaan Boettger's review in Brooklyn Rail of three books of photography of oil landscapes, Burtynsky's Oil, J. Henry Fair's The Day After Tomorrow: Images of our Earth in Crisis, and Richard Misrach and Kate Orff's Petrochemical America. The review addresses the approaches of the... Continue Reading →
Eden3: Trees are the Language of Landscape
Exhibition - April 22 to May 25, 2013 Tent Gallery, in Art Space and Nature Edinburgh College of Art Evolution House (corner of Westport and Lady Lawson Street) Edinburgh, EH1 2LE, Scotland Phone: 0131 651 5800 Hours: Tues-Fri 12noon to 4:45PM or by appointment on Saturday. The Collins & Goto Studio presents an on-going series... Continue Reading →
Tar sands and restorative justice
Louis Helbig's talk on his project Beautiful Destruction yesterday afternoon at Edinburgh College of Art brought together some interesting elements: environmental destruction in remote northern Alberta, national economic benefits, the role of the arts, the relevance of this to Scotland, Jim Hansen's arguments about tipping points in climate change, the need for civic discourse and... Continue Reading →
Proposals for creative art+science, participatory and open environmental education
Pixelache Helsinki, a transdisciplinary platform for experimental art, design, research and activism have just posted ideas for art+science, participatory and open environmental education development: Create new educational materials with participants, using creative participatory methods, for example using ‘sprint’ model, i.e. doing things fast, together, during the 2-3 days camps organised by trilateral environmental NGOs. Offer... Continue Reading →
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We've just updated our banner. It's a remix by Betsy Davis, who did it last year for ecoartscotland's residency in Tent at ECA. The colours are from the landscape of Lewis, where Betsy had been developing an installation in the landscape.
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