I saw a wisp of snipe
I saw a wisp of snipe
or at least a wisp of waders this morning.
Lake Clifton was completely still with sharp flocks of white flying in fast lines across the surface.
Two swans and reflections.
Bloody noisy wattle birds.
for birders: Koos Dijksterhuis film about sanderlings on the beach of Schiermonnikoog
Created by Benny Klazenga, Jeroen Reneerkens, Koos Dijksterhuis
The sound track is a bit daggy but the human/nonhuman interface was well done.
A Duck For Mr Darwin
Evolutionary Thinking & The Struggle To Exist Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art 10 April – 20 September 2009
A Duck for Mr. Darwin is a group exhibition of contemporary artists exploring evolutionary thinking and the Theory of Natural Selection. The exhibition focuses on the legacy of Charles Darwin’s ideas and is informed by the spirit of experimentation which was so distinctive to the time in which he lived.
The exhibition title references the story of an exchange of letters between the young naturalist Alfred Russel Wallace and Charles Darwin. In 1857 Wallace was to send Darwin a specimen – a domestic duck from the island of Lombok. Just a year later he would send a short twenty page essay on species variation. This correspondence proved to be an important catalyst precipitating the publishing of Darwin’s monumental theory – the Origin of Species in 1859.
It features the work of Charles Avery, Marcus Coates, Dorothy Cross, Mark Dion, Andrew Dodds, Mark Fairnington, Ben Jeans Houghton, Tania Kovats, Conrad Shawcross
Not much information on actual works. Buy me the book someone.
Mark Dion The desk of a tropical ecologist (Guyana field trip: Semang Creek) 1999
http://www.balticmill.com/whatsOn/present/ExhibitionDetail.php?exhibID=123
discovered Bady Minck
!sigh!
Just saw extracts from Bady Minck’s Im Anfang war der Blick (2003) and have ordered the book/dvd. She combines my love of found postcards (and found text) with amazing timelapse/montage/animation techniques, landscapes, reading and poetry in what has been called a surrealistic film practice.
“This is a film about story-telling and remembering, the volatility of language and images.” http://www.mellart.com/2008/02/im-anfang-war-der-blickin-beginning-was.html
In the beginning was the eye (trailer) by bady minck
Landscape is being performed by elke groen & bady minck. The analysis (that I can decipher) is really interesting.
A still from La Belle est la Bête
anonymous third year doing dog palpations on Roger
I would happily supply copies of these images to the ‘arm’ that belongs to them
The Animal Gaze 2010 Symposium & Exhibition
The success of The Animal Gaze encouraged London Met to set up a series of associated events around animals and art today. These will be part of an ongoing programme under the banner of Cass Contemporary Arts (CASSCA)…CASSCA announces another symposium on animal/human studies and contemporary art at Sir John Cass in October 2010 (final dates to be announced). Again, the event will be developed from practice-led university research in fine art. We welcome practising artists in particular, and participation from all disciplines and from varying research approaches in general, both scholarly and practice-led. We invite proposals for papers, presentations, dialogues, showings, interventions, performances and workshops in all formats. DEADLINE: March 31st, 2010 (notice of acceptance to be made by May 30th, 2010). Please send proposals and abstracts of no more than 300 words to Rosemarie McGoldrick at London Met.
The Animal Gaze exhibition
http://www.snaebjornsdottirwilson.com/nanoq.php
The Animal Gaze: Contemporary Art & Animal/Human Studies was a two day symposium (Nov 20-21, 2008) and exhibition (Nov 18-Dec 12, 2008) organised and hosted by London Metropolitan University at the Sir John Cass Department of Art Media and Design in Whitechapel, London (UK). The exhibition tours to Plymouth and Exeter in 2009. http://www.animalgaze.org/
I am trying to get hold of the catalogue.
minding animals conference
This conference in Newcastle in July this year bills itself as ‘a transdisciplinary conference exploring the interrelationships between animals and society’:
- Where science meets the humanities
- Where academic meets activist
- Where environmentalist meets animal advocate
- Where all can participate in consideration of past, present and future interrelationships between human animals, nonhuman animals and the total environment
http://www.mindinganimals.com//index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=92&Itemid=116
I have put in an abstract to present some findings from this residency.
The conference has six major themes and objectives:
- To reassess the relationship between the animal and environmental movements in light of climate change and other jointly-held threats and concerns
- To examine how humans identify and represent nonhuman animals in art, literature, music, science,and in the media and on film
- How, throughout history, the objectification of nonhuman animals and nature in science and society, religion and philosophy, has led to the abuse of nonhuman animals and how this has since been interpreted and evaluated
- To examine how the lives of humans and companion and domesticated nonhuman animals are intertwined, and how science, human and veterinary medicine utilise these important connections
- How the study of animals and society can better inform both the scientific study of animals and community activism and advocacy
and
- How science and community activism and advocacy can inform the study of nonhuman animals and society
http://www.mindinganimals.com//index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=15&Itemid=1
Main page: http://www.mindinganimals.com/index.php
