The Night Watchman, 2004 by Francis Alÿs
Unfortunately I can’t embed this video. I found it whilst searching for a video/dvd on Alÿs. http://www.artangel.org.uk//projects/2005/seven_walks/video_the_nightwatch/video_the_nightwatch
thinking the nonhuman
tree death — mentions Lake Clifton but refers to deaths around the world
Climate change is here… NARRATION Something has changed too, for the Tuart trees. At Lake Clifton, south of Perth, their twisted skeletons rise through the peppermint groves. These ones died in the 1990s. In other areas, they are failing to fruit, and the species’ seed bank is drastically declining. Prof Giles Hardy Again, we …
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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.
greenwash and blackwash?
Wash and Spin Cycle Threats to Tropical Biodiversity by Lian Pin Koh, Jaboury Ghazoul, Rhett A. Butler, William F. Laurance, Navjot S. Sodhi, Javier Mateo-Vega, and Corey J. A. Bradshaw An article arguing that both sides of the environmental debate can put out gloss, misleading or unsubstantiated claims about tropical deforestation. Greenwash is corporate, …
Aesthetics as a Way of Survival
Dutch artist Germaine Kruip filmed satin bowerbirds in her work Aesthetics as a Way of Survival similar to my 2004 video work herethere(hide). Her film about the bowerbird poses the question relating to the »artificial« and the »natural« in a surprisingly new way, encompassing the whole exhibition with this dichotomy. Guided by visual similarities …
Hydrobotanics Symposium 17 November
A symposium hosted by ICLL and Createc on the twin subjects of water and plant life in Western Australia. For its end-of-year symposium, the International Centre for Landscape and Language (ICLL) at ECU’s Mount Lawley Campus is pleased to present a distinguished array of biologists, geographers, writers, artists, and other creative and scientific people. The symposium will …
interesting lecture The Mirror Test: Humans, Animals and Sentience
A lecture by Sherryl Vint, Associate Professor at Brock University in St. Catharine’s, Ontario, Canada Date: Tuesday, 7 July 2009 Time: 6:00pm-7.00pm Location: Alexander Lecture Theatre, UWA Cost: Free. No RSVP required. Enquiries: iasuwa@admin.uwa.edu.au or (+61 8) 6488 1340??(The nearest carpark is P3 off Hackett Drive Entrance 1) The mirror test – a classic …
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Wilderness, animals and contemporary art talk
I am giving a talk at the 4th year vet lecture theatre at the vet school.
Palpation with black dog (Stanley???)
These might end up as drawings
anonymous third year doing dog palpations on Roger
I would happily supply copies of these images to the ‘arm’ that belongs to them
Cane Toad Day Monday 2 March 2009
Cane toads reached the Quarantine Station at the WA/NT border near Kununurra (as reported in The West Australian).
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 …
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. …