Jennifer Clarke and Rachel Harkness are convening an excellent session focused on trees, referencing Patrick Geddes' "By Leaves We Live", within the Conference of the Association of Social Anthropologists of the UK and Commonwealth. Abstracts come from all over the world and take trajectories across the topic: religious practice and space; time and trees (both... Continue Reading →
Trees
Germaine Greer makes an important point in this article, highlighting the difference between planted woodland and succession woodland, or meadow. She regrets planting woodland twenty years ago, and she articulates the reasons why the UK Government's proposed sell off of woodlands might actually have been a good thing. It is important to distinguish between pine... Continue Reading →
Material Considerations
Material Considerations showcases the forest industries and in particular, the current and potential future use of Scottish timber - from tree to paper - specifically highlighting the use of timber as a building material. The exhibition comprises three sections: starting with the forest where trees grow and mature, following on to the production line where... Continue Reading →
“TREES are the largest LIVING things on earth…”
The next 'Humanities and Climate Change' meeting will be at the Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities (The University of Edinburgh, Hope Park Square, Edinburgh EH8 9NW) on Wednesday, 25 August, 1-2pm. Tim Collins will discuss his work with Reiko Goto and their approach to the theory and practice that informs Eden3, an artist-led... Continue Reading →
Plein Air: The Ethical Aesthetic Impulse
In "Plein Air: The Ethical Aesthetic Impulse", Reiko Goto and Tim Collins exhibit a box easel for the 21st Century. Like the 19th century realists and impressionists before them, these artists seek authentic experience ‘in nature.’ The artwork experiments with new empathic, body/mind relationships with trees in cities. The ‘plein air’ easel for this exhibition... Continue Reading →
Trees, Woods and Forests
Assembling some links related to Trees, Woods and Forests: Jen Clarke is doing a PhD at the University of Aberdeen's Anthropology Department "tentatively" entitled Working between art and forestry in Scotland http://www.abdn.ac.uk/socsci/staff/details.php?id=r06jc8 The British Museum had an excellent small display entitled Imaging the Forest http://www.britishmuseum.org/whats_on/all_current_exhibitions/imagining_the_forest.aspx I recently came across an interesting web site, http://www.wikiwoods.org/ Always... Continue Reading →
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