Check out the website and project for What is missing? by Maya Lin http://www.whatismissing.net/ (also see details on her website http://www.mayalin.com/). I’m always a little dubious about mournful environmental art but the website is very moving in an informational sort of way.
Someone has uploaded and extract of Marcus Coates’ Dawn Chorus online. Here is a baltic bites about it
I have been posting the mail art piece compose/decompose to the Animals, people a shared environment exhibition as part of the Australian Animal Study Group 2011 conference exhibition at the POP Gallery and QCA Project Space in Brisbane. There are 20 cards in all and the work is a tribute to the Molluskian Hermaphrohood. …
On Sunday we went for a walk up from Bibra Lake. Whilst at the lake we found an egg exposed out on the sandy bank. It looked like a duck egg and it was still warm to touch. There were some pairs of ducks roosting, head under wing, further down on the edge of …
Introduced starlings are found in all states of Australia apart from WA (when found here, they are subject to border control). These ones are at Otmoor, near Oxford. I can’t think of any other birds that flock like this in Australia except budgies when they have had a good season. There was another video …
The very last Xmas island Pipistrelle bat was heard on 25 August 2009 with no further ‘sightings’ (hearings) despite intensive efforts to locate the species. At 3 g it was/is the smallest bat in Australia. Writing in January 2009 Dr Lindy Lumsden noted: “Surveys undertaken in the mid-1980s found it to be common and widespread …
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.
Created by Benny Klazenga, Jeroen Reneerkens, Koos Dijksterhuis The sound track is a bit daggy but the human/nonhuman interface was well done.
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 …
!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 …
I would happily supply copies of these images to the ‘arm’ that belongs to them
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 …
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. …
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 …