Solar Sisters
By Joan Sullivan In the future, we may well look back on 2022 as a watershed year in the global energy transition. The year when we finally realized that “technological infrastructure alone does not an energy transition make.” The year when we finally understood that all previous energy transitions (yes, there have been several) overlapped with and were →
Member Spotlight: Ruth Wallen
This week we recognize the work of artist Ruth Wallen. “The magnificence, diversity and delight of the forest cannot be fully expressed in any single image. I’ve chosen the form of a photomontage to provide a series of glimpses, from a variety of scales and perspectives, to evoke both the vibrancy of life and the fragmentation caused from →
Green Tease Reflections: Artist/Scientist Networking
2nd February 2022: This event provided an opportunity for artists and scientists working on climate change and related environmental issues to meet each other and make connections. The event started with a panel of speakers before moving into space for one-on-one conversations between attendees. This event was organised in collaboration with Metta Theatre. Speakers The →
Landscape Deconstructed: Linda Stillman interview on Art Spiel
Posted on February 14, 2022 by Jennifer McGregor on Artspiel Part 1: Linda Stillman – Interview with Jennifer McGregor Landscape Deconstructed: Mimi Czajka Graminski and Linda Stillman is a virtual exhibition on view at the Hammond Museum and Japanese Stroll Garden website until June 2022. It is curated by Bibiana Huang Matheis. The opening on September 11, 2021, included a virtual conversation →
Todd Bartel: An Omni-Coupler
By Etty Yaniv Todd Bartel came to serious collage because of an assignment he received on the first day of his first class as a freshman at Rhode Island School of Design: “Create five collages that work with the following sentence: Surrealism is the chance happening of finding an umbrella and a sewing machine on a →
Ecoscenography Q&A
Milo Juráni is a theatre critic from Slovakia who writes about the intersection of theatre and contemporary issues. Recently, Milo interviewed me for his Theatre in the Anthropocene series on his theatre webzine www.MLOKi.sk. The interview was first published in Slovak language. Much of my responses to his questions can be found in my recently →
Member Spotlight: Bill Gilbert
This week we recognize the work of artist Bill Gilbert. “Since moving to New Mexico, my work has been focused on articulating the relationship between humans and place. Starting in 1979 I made the commitment to work with the native materials of my environmental back yard in northern New Mexico as means to develop an intimacy →
ARTIST OPEN CALL with PAID commission
We’re inviting artists of all ages to submit a work as part of a ground-breaking public art initiative; to be reproduced at scale and displayed for millions to see in public spaces across the UK. Our goal is to build a new and ambitious cultural institution without walls, and to generate a national conversation through →
Picturing Climate Change – Incorporating the Arts to Create Land Rehabilitation
Picturing Climate Change6pm GMT* Monday 21st MarchLivestreamed through Youtube * [North American attendees – Note: Daylight Saving Time begins March 13th, making an event start time of 11am PST/ 2pm EST on March 21st. Picturing Climate Change is a free online event exploring the role of photography in ‘what is seen and unseen’ in relation to climate change, both from the ground and →
Lands End at the Former Cliff House on Articultures
by Barbara Morris for Articultures, February 7 ,2022 The FOR-SITE Foundation, founded in 2003, has taken on the unique project of mounting exhibitions of immersive, site-specific installations set in some of the Bay Area’s national parks. With memorable exhibitions including 2012’s International Orange set at the imposing Fort Point, followed by 2014’s @Large:AiWeiwei at Alcatraz housed in the stark →
Ellen Kozak – Vigil on Art Spiel
Vigil, Ellen Kozak’s first solo painting exhibition with David Richard Gallery, featured two fully realized series of abstract oil paintings on panel. The painter, with studios in New York City and beside the Hudson River in Greene County, explores the relationship between the fluidity of paint and river surfaces affected by the intersection of natural and →
Guest blog: The Fifth Giant (or What Would You Do?)
In 2021, Lyth Arts Centre (LAC), in collaboration with Timespan and the Environmental Research Institute (University of Highlands & Islands), were selected as a Creative Carbon Scotland Climate Beacon for a collaborative engagement programme around the UN Climate Change Conference (COP26). Titled The Land for Those That Work It, our Climate Beacon seeks to explore issues →
Conscient Podcast: e99 (b) winter soundscape revisited – homage to r. murray schafer (composition only)
This is the ’40-minute composition only’ version of episode 99 . See episode 99 for details on winter diary revisited – homage to r. murray schafer. It is intended for those who want to listen to the composition only without the 25′ introduction and 3′ of credits. The post e99 (b) winter soundscape revisited – homage to r. →
Member Spotlight: Kim Stringfellow
This week we recognize the work of artist Kim Stringfellow. Featured is The Mojave Project, a transmedia documentary and curatorial project led by Stringfellow exploring the physical, geological and cultural landscape of the Mojave Desert. The Mojave Project reconsiders and establishes multiple ways in which to interpret this unique and complex landscape, through association and connection of seemingly unrelated sites, →
The Ultimate Cli-Fi Book Club: ‘A Rain of Night Birds’
By Peterson Toscano Joining us in the Art House is Dr. Krista Hiser with The Ultimate Cli-Fi Book Club. The purpose of the book club is to look at climate-themed literature and consider how it can help us engage differently with interdisciplinary topics and existential threats related to the planetary predicament of climate change. In →
New publication showcases the role of arts and culture in the transition to a sustainable future
A new e-book published by the Boekman Foundation, a leading Dutch institute for arts, culture and related policy, explores how the creative sector is helping to achieve sustainability in seven European countries, and Creative Carbon Scotland (CCS) contributed the chapter for Scotland. Towards sustainable arts: European best practices and policies offers inspiring examples for artists, cultural →
Conscient Podcast: e99 winter diary revisited – homage to r. murray schafer (25′ introduction + 40′ composition + 3′ credits)
e99 winter diary revisited – homage to r. murray schafer (25′ introduction + 40′ composition in 12 parts + 3m credits) is a 68-minute episode that closes season 3 and features a soundscape composition of mine based on an unpublished essay that composer R. Murray Schafer wrote after a 10-day field recording trip that he →
An Interview with Advocate Michele Roberts & Artist Quynh-Mai Nguyen
By Amy Brady Happy new year! I don’t know about you, but I’m optimistic about what this year will bring. According to the Media and Climate Change Observatory, 2021 witnessed the most climate change coverage ever! (h/t Mary Heglar in the outstanding “Hot Take” newsletter.) And 2022 is already on its way to becoming another significant →
SummerWorks Call for Submissions 2022
SummerWorks Performance Festival expands the possibilities of performance. In its 32nd year, based in Toronto, Canada, SummerWorks is widely recognized as one of the most vital platforms for launching new performance in the country. SummerWorks is currently seeking proposals for their Festival’s next edition, taking place August 4th-14th, 2022. Proposals are encouraged from established and →
Member Spotlight: Stacy Levy
This week we recognize the work of artist Stacy Levy. “People often think that nature ends where the city begins. My projects are designed to allow a site within the built environment to tell its ecological story to the people that inhabit it. As a sculptor, my interest in the natural world rests both in art →