Artistry and Installations...
making
creating
creating
imagining
at the yurt and gardens behind the
glasshouses in the botanics, monday tuesday
and all week if anyone would like to join us !?!
any help welcome! come create a beautiful inquisitive
space with us!
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| Made from the silhouettes of papercuts... |
Invisible Artistry
Signs, tents, moveable and temporary structures, tree hangings (with no harm to the tree or any plants!) and many more intriguing installations will be dotted around the gardens of the grove. Many of them aim to be interactive and evolving over the course of the month, what we start out with will hopefully definitely be very different from what we will end up with... Please look closely, be curious and feel free to interact with them. We hope that through these (as well as through the workshops/talks/performances/discussions) a dialogue of sorts can be created on the ideas and questions raised of how we look at our local urban and natural environments and alternative approaches to learning. Perhaps a trace of what you thought of the project can be shared if you feel like this is a way for you to leave it...
Puppets kindly lent to us and made by Emma Brierley (thanks Emma!)...look out for the Golden Bee! Waste Innovations are lending us some of their costumes made from recycled materials too (thanks!) (see link to their website on the right).
Puppets kindly lent to us and made by Emma Brierley (thanks Emma!)...look out for the Golden Bee! Waste Innovations are lending us some of their costumes made from recycled materials too (thanks!) (see link to their website on the right).
“Transitive learning requires a space in which active engagement of the imagination can be realized. Within aesthetic spaces we can dramatize our fears and practice our actions in spaces of relative safety.” Shari Popen (2006)
Artistree
Art Installations in trees on site and around town
Look out for installations and sculptures in trees around the city centre...an interesting form of creative alternative advertising, in keeping with our 'no (or more like 'not many') poster or flyer' wastage policy, are environmentally sound and do not harm the tree in any way. Hopefully a nice connection between artists creating these works and everyone else in the project. Keep an eye out for them!...
Pulp
2010
Recycled magazines and catalogues, wire netting
Eilis Hanson
"Every two seconds an area of forest, the size of a football pitch, is cut down. [1]
The trees planted to replace those cut down are often different, fast-growing species. Consequently, many rainforest birds are under threat of extinction due to the destruction of their habitats. It has been predicted that in 40 years half of the world’s endangered bird species[2] will be extinct".[3]
[1] Greenpeace UK
[2] Around 500 species
[3] S.L. Pimm and T.M. Brooks Washington , D.C.
Research Remnants
2010
Sculpture -Slender twigs, dried bay leaves.
Iain Struth
"This work uses constructions which play in the space between nature and the artificial. Having arrived into a no-man’s-land in which we no longer exist within nature, or our artificial systems; we find that we have built a ‘nowhere’.
It is a polarised world where the ‘made’ and ‘born’ are entangled together in an inherent conflict with each endlessly seeking to enclose, overwhelm and consume their opposite. We have a dual view of both; as extensions of ourselves and as ‘other’, exterior. A Utopia fills this rift, showing the possibilities of balance and convergence –this work wishes to show a possible reality to these hopes".
