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8 – 19 October 2011 Active Ingredient
Active Ingredient, an artist collective worked in collaboration with scientists and researchers across the UK and Brazil to create A Conversation Between Trees.
They visualised and interpreted environmental data from trees in both countries to create new interactive artworks and gave educational presentations and workshops during their two week residency at CCANW.
Spring 2007 Sean Hellman
Craftsman Sean Hellman worked with sections of the different tree species grown at Haldon to reveal the qualities of the wood within. He also worked on developing the ‘tree trail’, now a popular walk at Haldon.
29 July – 13 August 2006 Heike Rindt
During her residency at Haldon in July/August 2006, Heike Rindt worked with a number of local artists and members of the public to create an alternative trail for walkers. The trace the place chase led visitors – with the aid of text-based clues – through a series of altered spaces in the forest.
27 May – 5 June 2006 Sam Mukumba
One of Sam Mukumba’s workshops in June 2006 involved casting a number of bowls from molten beeswax. Participants were asked to find a tree seedling growing in an unsuitable place – typically, a roof gutter or along a road – and replant it in a bowl.
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Dear friends/colleagues - you may find this of interest.
art.earth continues its series of renowned short courses with A Wider Sense of Community (seeding possibility) facilitated by Anne-Marie Culhane. Guests include Lucy Neal (‘Playing for Time: making art is if the world mattered’) and Dr Tom Powell (Res. Fellow in the Earth System Science Research Group at the University of Exeter).
If you have an interest in using art to change the world - whether you call yourself an artist or not - this extended weekend course is for you. During the extended weekend (Friday November 9 to Monday November 12) you’ll explore a wide range of ecological socially-engaged practices through talks, workshops, exercises and tutorials. art.earth is known for creating vibrant, co-operative shared-learning environments where you contribute as much as you take away.
Above all this course explores the pivotal role of creativity in re-thinking the future and re-inventing and re-imagining our world and inspiring agency in others at a time of systemic change and uncertainty. This is timely, urgent, important work.
A few places remain. More information at artdotearth.org/a-wider-sense/
Short Course: A Wider Sense of Community (seeding possibility)
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A Wider Sense of Community a residential short course with Anne-Marie Culhane and guests ; A Wider Sense of Community (seeding possibility) an art.earth residential short course Friday November 9 @ 16...The Centre for Contemporary Art & the Natural World (CCANW) is a charity registered in England & Wales Co. No.1167039
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