Bus Tour

Second Sight/Site

June 2, 2013ecoartscotland, Open CallsBus Tour, Conference Reception, Curators, David Blyth, Edge Research, Fremantle, International Networks, Kings College, Landscape Features, Methodologies Of Research, Nicky Moss, Norman Shaw, Old Aberdeen, Sacred Wells, School Of Art, Second Sight, Soup Lunch, Stone Monuments, Theoretical Texts, University Of Aberdeen

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The landscape as a context for second sight and prophesy.

Place-led methodologies of research reveal and inform our understandings of theories and practices.

Participants in theÂ Second Sight and Prophesy ConferenceÂ at the University of Aberdeen 14-16 June 2013 are invited to join a group of artists to explore land use, memory, topography, geology, nemetons, the Goodmanâ€™s Croft, sacred wells, stone monuments of various periods and other landscape features in preparation for the conference.

Artists includeÂ Arthur Watson,Â Norman Shaw,Â David Blyth, Nicky Moss, Kyle Noble withÂ Chris Fremantle.

The tour will take place onÂ Friday 14th June 2013 leaving Kings College, Old Aberdeen at 9am and returning 4.30pmÂ in time for the conference reception.

Cost Â£60 per person payable in advance. This covers bus tour and a soup lunch.

Book here

Deadline for booking~~Wednesday 15th May 2013~~. Â EXTENDED DEADLINE to Monday 10 June 2013

For further information please contact Chris Fremantle on chris [at] fremantle [dot] org or on +44 (UK) 7714 203016

ecoartscotland is a resource focused on art and ecology for artists, curators, critics, commissioners as well as scientists and policy makers. It includes ecoartscotland papers, a mix of discussions of works by artists and critical theoretical texts, and serves as a curatorial platform.
It has been established byÂ Chris Fremantle, producer and research associate withÂ On The Edge Research,Â Grayâ€™s School of Art, The Robert Gordon University. Fremantle is a member of a number of international networks of artists, curators and others focused on art and ecology.
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Non-Toxic Eco-Art Roundup

July 11, 2009newsAgnes Denes, American Art, Art Events, Artistic Work, Atomic Bomb, Aviva, Blogger, Bus Tour, Featuring Works, Food Production, Fritz Haeg, Housekeeper, Industrial Food, Inert Ingredients, Land Art, Mail, Planting Grass, Rahmani, Resonances, Short Overview, Stroom

Since itâ€™s recently been made public that supposedly â€œinertâ€ ingredients of pesticides like Roundup are not, in fact, not so very intert, we thought weâ€™d celebrate (hem hem) with a short overview of detoxifying eco-art events.

You might have seen the buzz for it, but the LAND/ART symposium just passed.Â We were forced to miss it this year, but there are some riveting descriptions on the Smudge Studio Blog. Especially check out CLUIâ€™s Bus Tour of New Mexicoâ€™s Superlative Ground-Sky Resonances. The title is super-intellectual: the journey is all about enchantment and the atomic bomb. Feeling detoxified yet?

Fellow eco-art blogger Abigail Doan altered us to the presence of Aviva Rahmaniâ€™s new booklet: What the World Needs is a Good Housekeeper. we just got it in the mail. Itâ€™s a small, bound overview of the Rahmaniâ€™s process, detailing some of her artistic work in collaboration with restoration ecologists, scientists and architects.Â An instructional pamphlet, if you will. A quote: â€œThe value of an artistâ€™s eye is to see relationships that might otherwise be missed.â€

Lastly: they are always having fun in the Netherlands. The image above is from Yang Zhichaoâ€™ s Planting Grass, currently featured in an exhibition calledÂ Foodprint at Stroom in The Hague. Featuring works by Fritz Haeg, Agnes Denes, and Atelier Van Lieshout,Â it examines our relationship with food and landscape. The artworks are paired with a timeline that parellels advances in industrial food production with the development of European and American art. Very mentally refreshing.

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APInews: LAND/ART Opens in New Mexico

June 29, 2009news1960s, American Southwest, Art Project, Art Works, Bus Tour, Earthworks, Guided Bus, Land Art, Land Use Interpretation, Landscapes, Lightning Field, Mexico Land, Nature And Culture, New Mexico, Roden Crater, Site Specific Art, Speakers Series, Spiral Jetty, Star Axis, Sun Tunnels

“LAND/ART,” a massive six-month environmental art project involving more than 25 presenting organizations in New Mexico, opened last weekend with a symposium. Coordinated by 516 ARTS, events began June 27 with a guided bus tour by The Center for Land Use Interpretation through dramatic built landscapes. Continuing through December 2009, “LAND/ART” explores relationships of land, art and community through dozens of new exhibitions, community-based projects, site-specific art works, speakers series, performances, tours, excursions and a culminating book. “Historically,” says the organizers, “New Mexico has been a place where the intersection of nature and culture is at issue. In the 1960s and â€˜70s, the American Southwest was the location of the first generation of Land Art or Earthworks,” including The Lightning Field, the Star Axis, Spiral Jetty, the Sun Tunnels and Roden Crater. Details are online.

via APInews: LAND/ART Opens in New Mexico .