on converting a spruce plantation into a forest & other projects that inspire, by Cathy Fitzgerald
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My work attempts to blur the already ambiguous boundaries between environmental art and ecological research. When initiating a project I often solicit technological or theoretical information from field biologists, or zoological organizations. In other cases, I have collaborated with scientists to create a work. As an artist involved in wildlife preservation, global [...]
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Several years ago, a comic artist/social activist, Ted Dave in Vancouver started the now global ‘Buy Nothing Day*’ which is today , November 27 in the US and November 28 Internationally.
Often it is hard to gauge the effect that the creative area can bring to important issues and that charge is now being laid more [...]
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There is a growing list of cultural activities planned for the Copenhagen Climate Change summit in December, not so much in Ireland but more in the UK and Europe. See the RSA Arts for COP15 site for more info – you can join this site if you are creating work/exhibitions or just interested.
Probably the most [...]
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Some of you may have seen this notice already. I hope to dash out from the arts office to listen in!
BUTLER GALLERY Kilkenny LUNCHTIME TALK – ART AND ECOLOGY
Pisces #25 Chromogenic print 2003, Susan Unterberg
“And for this Nature is Never Spent: Art and Environmental Reform”
Lecture given by Dr. Jo Anna Isaak, John L. [...]
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Hi all,
Just found out that my film that I made for Biodiversity week 2008 Burning Bright, has been selected for the Carlow 2009 Eigse Film programme. Yay!!! I know some of you watched this film as it was selected earlier this year for the Green Party’s youtube film festival and asked me how it go [...]
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Hi everyone,
As you know we had our small spruce wood thinned in January – over 200 trees were felled and that created large piles of branches all around our site. I’m talking piles of organic material about 5 feet high in places! Obviously you can leave some to decay naturally, as seen in my previous [...]
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A big hooray for all those that have been wondering when attention on ecological problems like climate change would seriously be examined in the Arts . The long established UK organisation, the Royal Society of Arts, has been making sterling efforts to both profile the few and encourage more arts practitioners to start looking at [...]
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A friend who know my interest in arts & ecology projects alerted me to the talks below. Great to see this happening, and particularly think there will be much interest in ‘art in allotments’ in the future!
The Airfield House Trust in Dundrum, Co. Dublin, is pleased to announce a series of talks accompanying the residency [...]
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I’m delighted to write that a new local forest directory has been created. It follows on from the 2006 ‘local project’ film & exhibition, a project where I documented an innovative 15 year old community foresty project in south Leitrim. The film and exhibtion were supported by the Dock in Carrick-on-Shannon and Crann.
Some of the [...]
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My art & ecology notebook documents a SLOW ART project. It's an ongoing diary in images, short films; conversations between myself, foresters, our local community & beyond, detailing an example of how we are turning our small monoculture spruce plantation into an ecologically & economically, permanent real FOREST.
I am also interested in using film to convey personal stories of small backyard environmental actions in response to global ecological concerns. I am developing a personal, poetic narrative film-making style, that while documentary in certain aspects, allows a larger range of ideas and emotions to be presented, in contrast to standard nature documentaries.
My project 'the Holly Wood Diaries'has allowed me to create two experimental film sketches, 'burning bright' (08) and 'once i counted birds' (09) and builds on previous stories with beginner foresters and their young trees/new woodlands in the more traditionally styled documentary film 'the local project revisited', 2006
I also write about other eco-art works that inspire me & which may be inspire others.
rsa art & ecology blog Nils L. Elliot: Mediating Nature
