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| Invisible Scotland: An International Gathering of Multidisciplinary Place-Based Researchers in Scotland An August 2013 conference in Dundee, Scotland Invited speakers from various disciplines will present material concerning ‘invisible’ aspects of Scottish culture, such as the oral tradition, musical ballads, personal narratives, traces of vanished communities, case studies in watersheds and coastal villages, historic ruins, and performances. Scotland itself will be the focus of close investigation by place-based researchers, with the aim of expanding collaborative research about Scotland through research projects. In two days of presentations and performances in Dundee, with two days on a choice of several trips, participants will not only hear and see, but visit firsthand, examples of ‘invisible’ traces in countryside, city, island or community. The audience will be comprised of invited researchers of three separate research networks (artists, landscape architects, architects, curators, geographers, writers, performers and practitioners), Scottish hosts and guests, with the aim of promoting new collaborations concerning Scottish culture through discovery. |
Summary of Research Workshop
This international research workshop, hosted by PLaCE Scotland and Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art & Design (hereinafter, DJCAD) of the University of Dundee, will bring together people of six nations; Scotland itself will be the focus of investigation by place-based researchers, with the aim of expanding collaborative research about Scotland through projects. In presentations and performances, invited speakers from many disciplines will present material concerning the ‘invisible’ aspects of Scottish culture: for example, the oral tradition, music, personal narratives, traces of vanished communities, case studies in watersheds and coastal villages, geographical traces of distant past, and narratives in historic ruins. PLaCE Scotland is the host: Mary Modeen- Convener, with members of PLaCE Scotland, PLaCE England, PLaCE USA and PLaCE France. www.placeresearch.ac.uk Members of the Land2 Network, and the Mapping Spectral Traces Network |
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Katherine E. Nash
Gallery Regis Center for Art, University of Minnesota 405 21st Avenue South, Minneapolis, MN 55455 shadows traces undercurrents October 16 - November 17 2012 An international group exhibition of mapping unseen and unacknowledged pasts that continue to structure present-day social relations. Curated by Christine Baeumler and Joyce Lyon Public Reception Thursday October 18 6-8pm Presentation by Talya Chalef and Kelly Ryall in the Regis-in-Flux Space, 4 - 5pm Sponsored by the Institute for Advanced Study Thursdays at Four Public Panels Friday October 19 1-5pm Rapson Hall Auditorium In Conjuction with the Mapping Spectral Traces Network Symposium Companion Show: A Sense of Place in Artist Books October 12 - December 12 2012, ALA Library Gallery, Room 210 Rapson Hall Curated by Karen Kinoshita Public Reception Friday 19 October 2012 6:30-8:30pm all events are free, open to the public and wheelchair accessible Further information: https://events.umn.edu/021624 http://www.mappingspectraltraces.org http://www.uwe.ac.uk/sca/research/place/index.htm |
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Carolyn Lee Anderson, Christine Baeumler, Dr. Iain Biggs, Margaret Cogswell, Jim Denomie, Jan Estep, Jil Evans, Wing Young Huie, Emily Johnson, Peter L. Johnson, Ruth Jones, Seitu Jones, Gülgün Kayim, Rebecca Krinke, Dr. Gini Lee, Lynn Lukkas, Joyce Lyon, Antony Lyons, Mary Modeen, Simon Read, Elaine Rutherford, Megan Rye, Mel Shearsmith, Mona Smith, Keith Taylor, Sandra Menefee Taylor, Judith Tucker in collaboration with Harriet Tarlo, and Amy Waksmonski. |
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events are part of Mapping Spectral Traces; A Dakota
Place, a 2012 - 2013 IAS Research and Creative Collaborative |
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Hybrid August 11 - September 30, 2012, Redline, Denver Colorado USA Hybrid is curated by Denver-based, Irish artist Rian Kerrane. The exhibition takes place in Denver’s RedLine, a 6,000 sq ft exhibition hall. It will be the first of two exhibitions, the second of which will take place in Ireland, allowing each artist to engage both with “local” proximity and “foreign” distance in turn. As part of Hybrid, Deirdre O’Mahony will be exhibiting Cross Land, (2007) commissioned by Clare County Arts office under the Ground Up Programme, Abridged: 0 - 20, Abandoned Clare (2011) curated by Gregory McCartney, and the T.U.R.F. (Transitional Understandings of Rural Futures) Archive (2012), all of which reflect upon and examine the changing face of rural social and cultural landscape. As part of her research for a new project FARM, O’Mahony has visited local beef producers in the USA to discuss changing ideas on rural environments as sites for food and energy production. Today many small farms exist as much as sites for cultural production (i.e. ‘design value,’ nostalgia, tourism, etc) as for producing the food we eat. O’Mahony is building on existing research with farming groups in Ireland and the UK, opening a space for co-learning between farming communities across the globe. As part of Hybrid, Deirdre O’Mahony will hold a community gathering the day after the opening reception on August 12 at RedLine, 2 - 4pm. FARM: Mind Meitheal will consist of the artist and local ranchers who will discuss how changes in farming practices are unfolding within rural communities across the globe and field questions from the audience. “Meitheal” means the exchange of mutual aid and support in Irish. On this trip to Colorado, O’Mahony has visited local beef producers to discuss changing ideas on rural environments as sites for food and energy production. Today many small farms exist as much as sites for cultural production (i.e. ‘design value,’ nostalgia, tourism, etc) as for producing the food we eat. O’Mahony is building on existing research with farming groups in Ireland and the UK, opening a space for co-learning between farming communities across the globe. Thanks to the ranchers and farmers in Colorado, Ireland and Cumbria who generously gave their time to discuss how these changes are affecting their farming. 
http://redlineart.org/art/events/exhibitions/hybrid.html
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Please join us on Monday 6th
August 7pm at: Crow Books 900 Albany Highway, East Victoria Park, 6101, Western Australia, for the launch of A Simple Rain. The book will be launched by Kevin Gillam. RSVP/for more information contact teapot@lethologicapress.org
Kevin Gillam (award-winning poet) |
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Limited edition of 100 published by Lethologica Press Copies available on the night and from www.lethologicapress.org |
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Commission 16m HVS 4c+ The 3rd and overhanging corner seaward from the arch. More strenuous than it looks. Belay at low tide or from a hanging belay on middle slab (also avoids any potential rockfall) Bridge and layback the corner. Better gear nearer the top. The large worrysome sounding fin is best avoided if possible. Some friable rock on left wall. Love Hate. Dan Shipsides Sep 2011 Public Commission 16m HVS 4c+ is now installed. A beautiful new climbing route by artist and climber Dan Shipsides. Its location is on a wild sea crag in Donegal. The route came into existence as a by-product of the cultural commissioning of a wider project. This work frames the new climbing route as a public artwork. Could a climbing route be a public (art)work? To what extent might it have been created or performed? What form does it posses or take? What is the location of the artwork? What audiences might engage with it? What is it that they do if they do? Location: Port A Doris, Shroove, Inishowen, Donegal. Ireland. 55.2ºN, 6.9°W A plaque at the location provides a QR link to online images, drawings and texts relating to the route and it’s providence as an experiential and conceptually charged public artwork. You can also scan from the images here. Public Commission 16m HVS 4c+ is presented as part of the 100x100 public art commissions facilitated by Artlink. It was initially funded by Legacy Trust UK (under the Vertical. Nature. Base project - an Echo Echo Dance Theatre Company and Dan Shipsides collaboration). |
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Further events in 100x100 open during the week. Artlink Visual Arts Organisation T. 074 93 63469 www.artlink.ieArtlink Ltd. Fort Dunree, Inishowen, Co. Donegal |
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FORM+CONTENT GALLERY 210 2ND STREET NORTH + MINNEAPOLIS, MN 55401 + 612 436-1151 Dialogue in Place, Volume II a visual conversation Joyce Lyon and Andrea Thoma Joyce Lyon (St. Paul, Minnesota) and Andrea Thoma (Leeds, England) have maintained a transatlantic studio conversation about different notions of place for more than ten years. In new bodies of work they consider place in relation to time, intimacy, pilgrimage and dwelling, and explore how different media facilitate different modes of visual thinking. PUBLIC LECTURE: Thursday, February 9 at 12:15 pm InFlux Space, Regis Center for Art, University of Minnesota 405 21st Ave. S., Minneapolis, MN 55455 Joyce Lyon and Andrea Thoma will discuss their creative process and the implications of place in their artistic practice. Events are free and open to the public. Gallery hours: Thursday – Saturday 12 - 6 pm and by appointment www.formandcontent.org |
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Drawn from
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Join us for a preview of
the exhibition on Friday 10 February 4 - 7pm Open 13 February - 9 March 2012 Mon - Fri 10am - 4pm |
Avenue Gallery The University of Northampton St George's Avenue Northampton NN2 6JD tel : 01604 893046 |
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Situating and Interpreting States of Mind 1700-2000 |
| TOPOPHOBIA Anne Eggebert • Matthias Einhoff • David Ferrando Giraut • Polly Gould • Marja Helander •Uta Kogelsberger • Almut Rink • Abigail Reynolds • Emily Speed • Louise K Wilson 13 January - 19 February 2012 Private View: Friday 13 January 2011 6 - 9 pm The fear of place and the manifestation of this in contemporary art is the territory for TOPOPHOBIA. As an anxiety disorder, this phobia is understood as an irrational dread of certain places or situations, yet, considered as a cultural phenomenon topophobia connects us to the existential human question of how each of us finds our place in the world. The exhibition and related publication take a look at the representation of place and space as threatened or threatening. TOPOPHOBIA is a group show featuring the work of ten UK and international artists. |
 David Ferrando Giraut Road Movie (Perpetuum Mobile) 2008 |
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| The range of media and approaches is wide.
Anne Eggebert makes detailed drawings derived
from images on Google Earth; Matthias
Einhoff uses high-end corporate video techniques to make a
spectacle of an urban wasteland; David Ferrando
Giraut creates a state of anxiety with his filmic pan of the
aftermath of a car accident; Polly Gould
constructs distorted topographical watercolours reflected in the surface
of a globe; Marja Helander depicts herself out of place between her
two cultures of contemporary Finland and Sami nomadic heritage; Uta
Kogelsberger reveals uncanny night visions of urban and desert
America in her photographs; Almut Rink
appropriates the 3D software used by architects to take the viewer
on an imaginary journey in a virtual space; Abigail
Reynolds exposes disjointed time and place in her use of old
book illustrations in collages and assemblage. Emily
Speed houses her body in a fortress made from shutters; and
Louise K Wilson uses sound derived from
her work at a previously top secret Cold War testing site. TOPOPHOBIA considers the technologies of perception that shape our understanding of place; technologies that extend the body beyond the usual limits of its senses, yet, these techniques of visual representation lead paradoxically to a sensation of disappearance. TOPOPHOBIA is about fear of place, but in equal measure, it is an exploration of the anxiety generated by encounters with these technologies of disappearance. TOPOPHOBIA is a touring show with Danielle Arnaud as the originating venue. The show tours to Bluecoat, Liverpool 3 March to 22 April 2012 and Spacex, Exeter 12 May to 7 July 2012. Both touring venues will feature specially commissioned new works from participating artists. A publication including colour plates of the artists’ works, a short fiction by Leslie Forbes, essays by Dr Caterina Albano, Thomas D Trummer and Eggebert-and-Gould, accompanies the exhibition. The book is distributed by John Rule www.johnrule.co.uk |
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| Conceived and curated by Eggebert-and-Gould Funded by the Arts Council and National Lottery For more information and images please contact Danielle Arnaud at: danielle@daniellearnaud.com |
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