Wasteland and stalled spaces are important. This new project connects wasteland in different places as well as offering some suggestions for ways to explore those on your doorstep - join in and be twinned with places in Indonesia, Australia, England, Germany, the Netherlands, Malaysia, India (interestingly there are no US or Canadian partners). Most of... Continue Reading →
Brief to make KEYSTONE XL an international issue
Brief for a campaign extension Bill McKibben's team along with a number of other NGOs and activist groups in the US and Canada have been campaigning to stop Obama signing off the Keystone XL project. The extension of the Keystone pipeline is a fundamental to the development of tar sands oil. Tar sands are one... Continue Reading →
AHM’s State of Play, Dundee
AHM's final State of Play event takes place in Dundee on Saturday 1 October. As with previous events it will include a number of 'One Minute Manifestos'. One of these has emerged through a collective process of writing initiated by Tim Collins and contributed to by a number of participants in the Values of Environmental... Continue Reading →
The Three Gorges, 3rd Edition « Artwork by Sonja Hinrichsen
The Three Gorges, 3rd Edition « Artwork by Sonja Hinrichsen. Sonja Hinrichsen makes ephemeral works of great beauty. These include walking in snow to create patterns. These are reminiscent of neolithic marks on stones near Kilmartin, Scotland. Her most recent work is also ephemeral, but is the result of working in the Three Gorges in... Continue Reading →
Natural Rights
Philosophically speaking 'natural rights' is an element of an argument about the basis of the rights that individuals have in society. What if nature had rights? What if there was a Ministry of Mother Earth? What if the experiences of people living with land were given priority? Remember that capitalisms roots are in the extraction... Continue Reading →
Heartwood
There is a recurrent theme in the work of some artists in Scotland - it is an enquiry and response to our relationship with landscape and nature. Other places evoke this enquiry as well, but Scotland has a particular tradition. Heartwood, which is now in its third year, is an artist-led (organised, curated, invented, managed,... Continue Reading →
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