A proposal for working with art making as a mode of enquiry and discourse as a complement to more quantitative approaches. Art making outdoors is a good way to explore and express personal experience of place.
Walking Poem
https://youtu.be/Gx8G84ZPrps I wanted to bring together poetry and place by embedding words in landscape. Much of my art making involves walking and exploring boundaries between the digital and the analogue, online and offline, words as performance and as text. I am interested in art as research, art as adventure and the outdoors as art. This …
Feral Attraction – outdoors as / art / as research
I visited the Cumbria University staff show and was drawn to this work by the artistic partnership Snæbjörnsdóttir/Wilson. It captured a combination of the outdoors as art and art as research, showing a long-established mode of working combining the outdoors, art and research.
The modern day flâneur
An article about the importance of walking a city to get to know it fully. A long read.
Reflective Locations
This is a post about French conceptual artist Salomé-Charlotte Camors. She uses art as research and says 'Research is fundamental in my work – probably more than technics because the meaning is the only thing that really matters to me and I have to transcribe this meaning in my work in an understandable way for the viewer.'
Performance and Adventure Learning
Exploring ideas from performance studies in relation to outdoor and experiential learning.
Adversity as Artform
A round of applause please. For Italy in her hour of need.
Nature connectedness and noticing nature: Key components of a good life.
For the past six months or so we’ve been working with the National Trust exploring how being connected with nature relates to pro-nature behaviours …Nature connectedness and noticing nature: Key components of a good life.