Environmental Art Festival Scotland 30 Aug - 2 Sept
Welcome
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“Join us to celebrate and explore our relationship with landscape and environment through a series of thought provoking environmental art commissions, discussions and events.”
HISTORY & CONTEXT
“The region’s landscape inspired great thinkers and poets throughout history, such as Robert Burns, Hugh MacDiarmid, and Thomas Carlyle”
The EAFS Team
Jan Hogarth, Leah Black, Matt Baker and Tonia Lu
The whole of the Dumfries and Galloway region is the location for the first Environmental Art Festival Scotland. We invite you to join us for a creative, stimulating and fun programme of events that will inform and challenge feelings and thoughts about landscape and places within it. In Dumfries and Galloway people live closely with the land, this relationship is always changing and evolving. The creative arts are breathing new life into the region, helping to celebrate its special places and making innovative links with other walks of life to make Southwest Scotland a positive, progressive place to live. Much of the local, national and international artwork commissioned in recent years focuses on our relationship with landscape and environment, and exploring new ways to connect with nature. This year’s Environmental Arts Festival Scotland (EAFS) will further explore this relationship through temporary commissions, debates, discussions, musical events and performance by artists from the region and round the world. Our ambition is for EAFS to grow into a biennial event - cementing Dumfries and Galloway as an international centre for environmental art practice. EAFS is the result of a new partnership between three organisations: Wide Open, Spring Fling and The Stove and we would like to thank Dumfries and Galloway Council and Creative Scotland for making this festival possible under their Place Partnership Programme and through Year of Natural Scotland. We would also like to thanks our festival partners including Scottish Natural Heritage, Forestry Commission Scotland, The Crichton Carbon Centre, Creative Carbon Scotland, Dumfries & Galloway LEADER Programme, University of Glasgow, Savour the Flavours, Visit Scotland and Destination Dumfries and Galloway, for their support in making EAFS a reality.
How to Enter
A Night With the Stars Sponsored by House O’ Hill Hotel
The Prizes
EAFS presents a prize draw unlike any other
Complete an EAFS visitor feedback form at one of the EAFS commission sites or venues, return it to the venue, or take it away and return freepost. The form will also be available online at www.environmentalartfestivalscotland.com
Stargazing in the Galloway Forest Dark Sky Park led by Keith Muir from Forestry Commission Scotland with one night stay for two people, a bottle of champagne, and breakfast at House o’ Hill Hotel (Bargrennan, DG8 6RN). Garden of Cosmic Speculation Sponsored by Trigony House Hotel A visit to Charles Jencks’ Garden of Cosmic Speculation at Portrack (p11) with one night luxury stay in a superior room for two people with dinner and breakfast at Trigony House Hotel (Thornhill, DG3 5EZ).
Dumfries & Galloway has a long history and heritage of close cultural connections with the landscape, from ancient rock art to Henry Moore’s groundbreaking modernist sculptures at Glenkiln, and more recent commissions such as Andy Goldsworthy’s Striding Arches. Right up to date the group ‘Do Not Resuscitate’ sees collaborative projects between artists and climate scientists, and the region boasts a UNESCO designated Biosphere Reserve and a national Dark Sky Park. An internationally recognised programme of commissioning and collaborative practice over the last 15 years have helped to make the region a rich cultural place with much to discover. The region is home to Charles Jencks’ Garden of Cosmic Speculation as well as permanent artworks to visit including Hideo Furuta’s Adamson Square project, Matt Baker’s works at Cairnsmore of Fleet and sculptures in Galloway Forest by a number of artists. Currently the landmark sculpture Star of Caledonia is in development for the border crossing between Scotland and England at Gretna, and Dalziel & Scullion’s sensory artwork Rosnes Bench is under construction for the Biosphere/Dark Skies Park.
Top: Biosphere Drinking Fountain, Robbie Coleman & Jo Hodges Middle: Hush, Matt Baker Bottom: The King and Queen, Henry Moore, Glenkiln Bottom left: Cairnholy Neolithic Monument Bottom right: Glentrool
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Here is your festival
30 August – 2 September
At the heart of the four-day Core Festival Weekend (30 August - 2 September) are four clusters of commissions, exhibitions and performances, in four diverse locations spread across this large and beautiful area of Southwest Scotland. The commissions have been awarded to well-known and emerging artists from home and abroad. All have been specially developed to reflect the 2013 festival theme of Energy and the Land.
Events happening for more than one day: John Wallace & Prof. Pete Smith: Cinema Sark (P4) James Winnett: The Rise and Fall of Grey Mare’s Tail (P6) Pat van Boeckel & Karin van der Molen: Gimme Shelter (P8) Will Levi Marshall & Donald Urquhart: Glimpse (P11) Balmond Studio: Star of Caledonia Exhibition (P5) Do Not Resuscitate: The Passing (P5) Katie Anderson: Voice from the Phone Box (P5) Gavin McGregor & Ingrid Shearer: Things that Befell Us in Those Strange Years (P7)
Each day will see a special emphasis put on one of the artworks - making it the focus for a host of other activities and events. These will include talks, dance, performance, live music, a picnic and a ceilidh.
Dalziel & Scullion: Rosnes Benches Exhibition (P9) Tenger Gazariin Dund (Sky and Earth) (P9) Ueno Masao: Dome of Silence (P9) Alice Francis: Solway Sea Monster (P12)
4 DAYS 4 THEMES 28 ARTWORKS & EVENTS AND YOU
The Archivist (P12)
Permanent Environmental Art Locations The region has many fascinating and exciting permanent environmental art locations. Please see the EAFS Map for further information.
Middle: The 7 Stanes, Gordon Young
Bottom: Cinema Sark (p4)
EAFS Satellite Weekends After the Core Festival weekend EAFS continues for a further 3 weekends in September - these are the Satellite Weekends and see the distinctive areas of the region bringing their own particular cultural character to the overall festival through the work of artists that live there. Please see page 13 - 15 of this brochure for more information.
All events are free - unless otherwise stated
ICONS
Top: Millennium Cairn, Andy Goldsworthy
Ideas Field
Bus
Costal Commissions
Wheelchair Access
Open Through 4 Days of Core Festival
International Projects
The Nithraid (p15)
The Archivist Image: © Paul Willows
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FRIDAY
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30th august
Available: 10am - 5pm Location: Beneath M74/M6 River
EAFS Gathering #1: Debated Land
Follow footpath from southern edge of car park from
Green, Dumfries & Galloway, DG16 5EA
CINEMA SARK
John Wallace & Professor Pete Smith Sark Bridge. Latitude 54.994822 Longitude -3.052531. Gretna Gateway, DG16 5GG (approx. 100m walk on public footpath - with some steps)
A study of place, ecosystems and the meaning of ‘the border’, presented at the English-Scottish frontier with moving images on a giant projection canvas beneath the nine-lane M74/M6 River Sark Bridge. One of the UK’s shortest but most geopolitically important rivers, the Sark has marked the westernmost border since 1552. Thousands whisk over it daily but few notice it. No signs announce its presence or identity. From Allfornought Hill to the Solway Firth, Cinema Sark uses video, found sound, archive materials and interview audio to explore connections between the Sark’s ecosystems and the people who live and work in them. Live environmental sensors constantly update the Sark System Engine, warping the visual tracks and making every viewing unique.
Balmond Studio: Exhibition About Star of Caledonia Time: 10am - 5pm, 30/08 - 01/09/2013 Location: Stormont Hall, Gretna Green, Dumfries & Galloway, DG16 5EA
Time: 7.30pm til Late Location: Stormont Hall, Gretna
Talks and discussions around the notions of territories and borders led by Professor Ted Cowan. This will be followed by a performance of newly composed piece of music inspired by James Clark Maxwell by Wendy Stewart & James Wyness (see below). Traditional music and food will conclude the first day of the festival. Please feel free to bring your own bottle (glasses provided).
An exhibition of Charles Jencks and Cecil Balmond’s spectacular design for Star of Caledonia, a landmark to be located at the border between Scotland and England at Gretna, the main road gateway to Scotland. The design takes its inspiration from the power energy, scientific heritage and magnetic pull of Scotland, and pays homage to James Clerk Maxwell, the pre-eminent Scottish physicist and mathematician.
Do Not Resuscitate: the passing
Time: 10am - 5pm, 30/08 - 01/09/2013 Location: Stormont Hall, Gretna Green, Dumfries & Galloway, DG16 5EA
The idea of the Passing grew out of Do Not Resusitate, an ongoing art/ science collaboration organised by the Crichton Carbon Centre. This slideshow illustrates the ideas behind the project which aims to say goodbye to our past way of living, goodbye to consumerism and capitalism and move on to the new way of living: ‘If you don’t create a future - you are doomed to live in someone else’s.
Booking Essential, ticket price: £8 including food + bring your own bottle.
Project supported by Crichton Carbon Centre, Creative Scotland & Dumfries & Galloway Council
voice from the PHONE BOX Katie Anderson
Inspired by Ecosystem Services Modelling, Cinema Sark flows from six months of filming, discussions and collaboration between video artist John Wallace, programmer Dine, and Royal SocietyWolfson Professor of Soils & Global Change Pete Smith.
Location: Phone Box, Clarencefield Village, nr Annan Latitude 55.00505 Longitude -3.42246
A newly commissioned audio and sculptural installation in a phone box which re-engages with the forgotten, derelict relic - the phone box stands on the brink of our populated spaces. Collected conversations reveal personal histories of place, a shared sense of identity and belonging. Our associations with place become an ephemeral link - nostalgia recorded, remembered and relayed.
©Val Horton
Time: 4pm - 5pm Location: Stormont Hall, Gretna Green, Dumfries & Galloway, DG16 5EA Katie Anderson will talk about her ideas and motivations behind the project.
Maxwell in Music
Wendy Stewart & James Wyness
An electro acoustic sonic exploration of James Clerk Maxwell`s life and work through harp, voice, environmental and manipulated sound. Reflecting his background, ideas and passions in a composition by local harper Wendy Stewart with sonic explorer James Wyness from the Borders.
‘Nature is Never Finished’ Robert Smithson
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SATURDAY
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31st august
THE RISE AND FALL OF THE GREY MARE’S TAIL James Winnett
EAFS Gathering #2: Sound. Nature. Dark Skies.
Location: Grey Mare’s Tail, follow signs from Grey Mare’s Tail Car Park (Latitude 55.01998 Longitude -4.36207) off A712 (30m walk on uneven ground from nearest car parking)
Time: 6pm til late Location: Grey Mare’s Tail, follow signs from Grey Mare’s Tail Car Park (Latitude 55.01998 Longitude -4.36207) off A712 (30m walk on uneven ground from nearest car parking)
A jet of white water is forced skyward from a gravity-fed fountain placed downstream of a dramatic highland waterfall. Powered entirely by the immense natural energy of water, the intervention has been developed to explore a number of related themes from debates on sustainability and energy use to questions of landscape identity and representation.
An evening of performances, explorations, music and talk. Bring your own picnic and join us in the beautiful Dark Skies Park. Highlights include artist James Winnett’s performance presentation of his work and a visit to sound artists Frenchbloke and Soundhog as they transmit The Dark Outside FM from a spectacular site.
The work refers back to eighteenth century Scotland when a radical shift occured in the popular perception of Highland landscapes, transforming them from hostile wildernesses to be avoided to awe-inspiring destinations to be experienced. Artists were at the centre of this process, developing an essential romantic iconography of which dramatic waterfalls played a key role. The fountain too has long been a focal point for great landscaped gardens as a tool for taming, containing and re-presenting nature. In this way the fountain encourages a reconsideration of the very nature of nature.
Tune in and hang out in The Dark Star Lounge. You are welcome to bring your own bottle along with your picnic.
Sporopollen
Alex Rigg & Guy Veale
Time: 4pm - 6pm Location: Clatteringshaws Dam, meet at the loch car-park (various viewing points some next to public road) Latitude 55.05070 Longitude -4.27814
You are invited to experience a unique environmental performance at Clatteringshaws Dam, a place containing great potential energies. A skin to protect during the passage of time and a flight across infinity, Sporopollen disguises and reveals the nature of its core. This event looks at the relationship between exterior and interior landscapes, inviting the audience to consider their own boundaries. Part of POLLEN, a Year of Natural Scotland project supported by Creative Scotland & Scottish Natural Heritage.
Things that Befell Us in Those Strange Years Gavin McGregor & Ingrid Shearer
Time: 10am - 4pm Location: Stroan Viaduct (walks of between 40m and 1km on uneven ground from car park) Latitude 55.006031 Longitude -4.117438
Archaeologists Macgregor and Shearer invite visitors on a journey to explore the timescapes of Stroan through a series of sculpture installations. The Stroan Viaduct represents a junction - a convergence of watery and human energies, all around the viaduct are traces of past places, stories, of possibilities.
Film Screenings
Speaking the Land by Dalziel and Scullion, Breathing Earth: Susumu Shingu’s Dream by Thomas Riedelsheimer
The Dark Outside FM
24 Hours of Unheard Sound. 87.7 FM Stuart Maclean, Ben Hayes, Robbie Coleman & Jo Hodges
Time: From 12pm for 24 hours Location: The Queens Way A712-Galloway Forest Dark Skies Park, between Clatteringshaws and Talnotry
A 24-hour site-specific radio transmission within the Dark Skies Park with contributions from musicians, artists and producers from all over the world. The transmission is of specially composed work, forgotten recordings and alternate versions of existing work, none of which have been heard in public before. Listen in your car or on a portable radio while travelling, or sit back and relax and hear it transmitted to The Dark Star Lounge deep in the Forest.
Time: 7.30pm - 10pm Location: Robert Burns Centre Film Theatre, Mill Road, Dumfries DG2 7BE
Two film screenings inspired by Dumfries and Galloway. Speaking the Land was commissioned by Wide Open and Scottish Natural Heritage and explores our relationship with landscape through film and writing, giving the film an emotive narrative. Breathing Earth documents how Japanese artist Susumu Shingu searched all over the world to locate his dream for a sustainable community, ending up inspired by the Galloway landscape. Book via Robert Burns Centre: 01387 264808 or pay at the door. Dalziel & Scullion: Rosnes Benches Exhibition & Tenger Gazariin Dund (Sky and Earth) (p9) at Cairnsmore of Fleet are also on this day.
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SUNDAY
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1st SEPTEMBER
GIMME SHELTER:
Restoration of the Old Kirk of Anwoth
Karin van der Molen & Pat van Boeckel
Available: 10am - 7pm Location: The Old Kirk of Anwoth, nr Gatehouse of Fleet Latitude 54.880449 Longitude -4.210644
Gimme Shelter is a multimedia and interactive film and sculpture installation taking place in the ruins of the 16th century Old Kirk of Anwoth. The building has been a famous ruin for many years and nobody remembers when the roof came down. The project takes us on a virtual tour exploring the whereabouts of the disappeared roof of the building. With video projections and environmental sculpture the artists invite the visitors to see the place with new eyes, and explore a traditional and at the same time provocative idea: how to incorporate the far away future in our present way of life. Also the artists offer an opportunity to take part in restoring the ruin in the year 2513, by planting an acorn.
EAFS Gathering #3: THE LAND AND US
Time: 6pm til late Location: Festival Yurt outside of SNH Cairnsmore of Fleet Reserve Office, Dromore Farm, Gatehouse of Fleet DG7 2BP
Come and join artists, scientists and environmentalists for an evening of talks, discussions and food exploring our relationships with land and how this influences our health and wellbeing. David Borthwick and Angie McClanahan will consider personal responses to landscape and place, urban and rural, the local and the global, and some critical questions around these topics. Open Jar Collective will encourage participants to experiment with different foods (see below). Artists Ueno Masao, Dalziel & Scullion will join the wisdom circle and share their ideas and thoughts about the land.
Rosnes Bench Workshop Dalziel & Scullion
Time: 2pm - 4pm Location: Cairnsmore of Fleet Visitor Centre, Dromore Farm, Gatehouse of Fleet DG7 2BP Latitude 54.94529 Longitude -4.25896
Dalziel & Scullion will run a practical workshop linked to their innovative Rosnes Bench project, a new commission for the Biosphere/Dark Skies Park area. The Rosnes Bench, a series of ergonomically designed benches, reconnects people’s senses to nature, helping them slow down, look and feel the natural world around them. The workshop will be a creative activity which focuses on aspects of the design process and location of the Rosnes Bench. Booking essential. The Rosnes Benches Exhibition will be on for all 4 days during the Core Festival (30/08 - 02/09/2013).
the Dome of Silence Ueno Masao
Time: 1pm - 3pm Location: Gatehouse of Fleet (starting point TBC)
Come and join a walk to the newly created sculpture by Japanese artist Ueno Masao. Throughout August, Ueno has been building a structure using imported Japanese bamboo from his own grove and some local willow. Weaving the materials together Ueno will create a dome of silence.
Booking Essential, Ticket Price: £8 including food + bring your own bottle.
Ueno Masao is the inaugural John Muir International Artist in residence funded by Creative Scotland as part of the Year of Natural Scotland.
Time: 4pm - 5pm Location: Cairnsmore of Fleet Visitor Centre, Dromore Farm, Gatehouse of Fleet DG7 2BP
Join Ueno as he gives a practical demonstration of his traditional bamboo work skills as well as undertaking a question and answer session about his work. Booking Advised for Both Events. The Dome of Silence will be available to visit all day 01 - 02/09/2013.
The Dairy House
Open Jar Collective present a project considering the interconnections between the food we eat and how it’s produced and distributed in Dumfries and Galloway. Over the summer they interviewed people and documented places connected with dairy farming, gathering an understanding of relationships, passions and perspectives on food. Poet Jean Atkin will read from The Dark Farms, her collection of poetry about Galloway Forest. Time: 5pm
Tenger Gazariin Dund (Sky and Earth)
A presentation of Land Art Mongolia including a series of shamanistic performances Time: throughout all day 31/08 - 01/09/2013, schedule TBC Location: Festival Yurt outside of SNH Cairnsmore of Fleet Reserve Office, Dromore Farm, Gatehouse of Fleet DG7 2BP
An opportunity to witness shamanistic rituals and learn about spiritual practices and life in Mongolia. The traditional Mongolian house is a ger (home) or yur, a form of living that has a long history and is still in use. Living in a ger is highly developed and includes the direct experience of sky and earth. The shaman usually performs in a ger, communicating with ancestors, and while doing so the shaman travels from the sky. Booking advised
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SUNDAY
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MONDAY
1st SEPTEMBER
Walking the Tide
2nd SEPTEMBER
Will Levi Marshall & Donald Urquhart
Visit to Charles Jencks’ Garden of Cosmic Speculation
Glimpse is a visually dynamic, temporary installation located within a coniferous forestry plantation. A horizontal slice through the forest will be made to visually disappear by the installation of Scotland’s largest watercolour. The conceptual framework of Glimpse has been developed from examining land use and forestry in Dumfries and Galloway.
Charles Jencks’ Garden of Cosmic Speculation is one of the most important gardens to have been created in Europe in the last few decades. It is the result of years of work, based on many conversations with some of the world’s most brilliant scientists and thinkers from cosmology, biology, chemistry, complexity science, chaos theory and quantum physics. It normally only open to the public for five hours every year. Booking Essential. Ticket Price: £8
GLIMPSE
Jo Hodges and Florencia García Chafuén
Time: 2pm - 5.30pm Location: Kippford (approx. half mile walk on public paths - then shore)
Location: Forestry Plantation at Barony Agricultural College, Parkgate DG1 3NE Latitude 55.16750 Longitude - 3.53050 Visible from A701 near Parkgate when traveling North.
A spectacular participatory performance event. Join us in creating a choreographed procession across the causeway from Kippford to Rough Island. Linking land and island, we will bring the causeway to life with live music, colour and movement. Come and have fun! No performance experience needed. Costumes provided. Register at the link below or just turn up. More Information: walkingthetide.eventbrite.co.uk walkingthetide@gmail.com
Projects presented by Stewartry Arts Hub
Time: 10am - 12.30pm Location: Bus departing from Gracefield Arts Centre, Dumfries DG1 1JQ
All money raised from visits to the Garden goes towards the cancer charity, Maggie’s Centre, set in the name of Charles’s late wife Maggie.
Middle Distance
Time: 2pm - 4.30pm Location: The Mill on the Fleet, 65 High St, Gatehouse of Fleet, Castle Douglas DG7 2HS
An illustrated presentation of present and future projects that connect art and the land. Projects presented will be - A People’s Atlas of South West Scotland, IRIS: Place, Identity, Memory, Zero Footprint, Fieldtrips, Views & Voices: Engaging communities with their landscape. The Mill on the Fleet also programmes exhibitions to coincide with EAFS, visit our website for more information.
Place Identity Memory 2 IRIS Artists Collective
Location: The Bakehouse, 44 High Street, Gatehouse of Fleet DG7 2HP
An international exhibition of artist made books which develop the idea of ‘place’. Themes include culture, memory, landscape and time. Exhibition on for all 4 days during the Core Festival Weekend.
An evening of poetry and prose by Kenneth White
Time: 7.30pm Location: The Bakehouse, 44 High Street, Gatehouse of Fleet, DG7 2HP
An evening of poetry and prose by renowned Scottish poet, academic and writer Kenneth White, exploring the many ways in which geopoetics can both illuminate and challenge the world in which we live.
‘New Earths, New Themes, Expect Us’ Henry David Thoreau
Woodland Activities & Wild Food Forage
Time: 2pm - 5pm Location: Barony Woods access from Barony College car park
Along with Glimpse, Forest School leader Phoebe Marshall will be running an afternoon of fun in the woods for all ages, including a scavenger hunt and things to make and do. FREE drop-in session, booking not required. Mark Williams, wild food expert will be leading a wild food forage followed by a cooking demonstration. Presented in partnership with Flavour Fortnight. FREE but booking essential due to limited places. For the installation & events follow the signs to Barony and use the Barony carpark. Pedestrian access 5-minute walk along a rough track. Free car parking, toilet facilities and cafe available. Wellies recommended.
EAFS Gathering #4:
Landscape as a Resource – Why Environmental Art?
Time: 7pm - 9pm Location: Robert Burns Centre Film Theatre, Mill Road, Dumfries DG2 7BE
Talks and a panel discussion leading from Monday’s theme ‘Landscape as a Resource’ before focussing on the question at the heart of EAFS: ‘Why Environmental Art?’. The discussion will be led by two of the leading voices in Scotland on the topic - David Harding OBE, a pioneering artist and teacher in the field of social and public art, and Chris Fremantle, currently co-director of Public Art Research + Resource Scotland. Other panellists will represent the fields of art, science, energy and politics - not to be missed by anyone interested in the future of the ‘Culture of the Land’. Booking Essential. Ticket Price: £2
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IDEAS FIELD In March 2013 EAFS invited submission of ideas for projects relating to ‘Land and Energy’ from artists, environmentalists and the general public. In total we received more than 70 submissions from all around the world - we have been able to support the development of some proposals and these are featured as events/artworks in the festival. Look out for ( ) in the brochure. EAFS aims to be a catalyst for further work in this field by A) specially created crowdfunding web platform (see EAFS website) and B) via The Archivist: The Archivist is a travelling installation by artists Jo Hodges & Robbie Coleman that explores, expands and illuminates some of the ideas, proposals and visions submitted to EAFS. Part performance, part artwork, ‘The Archivist’ will travel the region for the four days of the festival, engaging audiences in an interactive exploration of current thinking on Art and the Environment. Look out for ( ) in the brochure.
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EAFS Satellite weekends A key part of EAFS is to feature the diverse arts practice around Dumfries and Galloway with the four regional districts each making a contribution: three Satellite Weekends in September will highlight Annandale and Eskdale, Nithsdale, Wigtownshire, while Stewarty will be hosting events within their area on two days of the Core Festival Weekend. The satellite weekends will demonstrate a range of practices including photography, performance, land art and sculpture. Audiences are invited to join in workshops, walks, discussions and conversations, lectures and talks, across the diverse arts and creative communities present in Dumfries and Galloway’s rich landscape.
Stewartry
Ephemeral and Everlasting Date: 11am - 4pm 07 - 09/09/2013 Location: Moffat Gallery, 21 Well Road, Moffat DG10 9AR
The Stewartry is presenting events over two days of the Core Festival Weekend (p10).
Poetry, photography, Scotland’s rural roads and the nature of time - sounds and images in a beautiful new artspace. Richard Demarco’s studies of rural roads leading to and from Edinburgh, photographs by local photographers, sounds and Poetry.
31st August, 1st September
Annandale and Eskdale
Associated Events
7th, 8th, 9th September
Making the Most of Moorlands Date: 07/09/2013 Location: Langholm Town Hall, Market Place, Langholm DG13 0JQ
Lie of the Land
An exhibition of local artists work exploring the moorland and its wildlife at Langholm Town Hall.
Time: 7pm-9pm 27/09/2013 Location: Castle Douglas Town Hall, 1 St Andrew St, Castle Douglas, DG7 1DB
TapRoots Date: 11.30am - 2pm 07/09/2013 Location: PIPS Orchard, Meikleholmside Cottage Farm, Annan Water, Moffat DG10 9LS
Gala Film Launch
Eighteen young teenagers, a poet and a film maker spent three days finding out about the wonderful landscapes of the National Scenic Areas. Hear from them about The Lie of the Land and watch their response to the people they met and the things they discovered in the short film that captures their experiences.
COASTAL COMMISSION Making the Most of the Coast is a joint initiative to turn the spotlight on over 200 miles of coastline in Dumfries and Galloway and is managed by Solway Firth Partnership to develop events, activities and publications. Information about another Coastal Commission Project Walking the Tide by Jo Hodges and Florencia García Chafuén can be found on page 10.
Solway Sea Monster Alice Francis
Location: Red Haven Beach near Auchencairn. Signposted from A711 between Kirkcudbright and Dalbeattie. Latitude 54.84593 Longitude -3.83487
Following a series of community beach cleanups along the Solway coast we will bring flotsam and driftwood to Red Haven beach, and there build a giant sea monster. Over EAFS anyone, of any age or skill, is welcome to help with ideas or building of this collective artwork, at once a symbol of our consumerist folly and of reclamation.
Tidemark: Workshops & Public Reading with Vivien Jones Date: 7.30pm - 9.30pm 09/09/2013 Location: Powfoot Golf Hotel The ever-changing shore line at Powfoot provides the stimulus for a writing workshop and a public reading of new creative work. Booking Essential for workshops via vivien@freeola.com/01461 700396 but not for reading.
Join us for magical tales of trees and woods, and discover the treasures at the heart of the land. Booking can also be made by email to info@letslivelocal.co.uk or by phone to 01683 221 898. Left: Tidemark Right: Ephemeral and Everlasting
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EAFS Satellite weekends
EAFS Satellite weekends
Wigtownshire
Nithsdale
EAFS @ A’ the Airts Time: 21/09/2013 Location: A’ the Airts, 8-12 High Street, Sanquhar, DG4 6BL Exhibition of Crawick Artland project plans. This is a reclamation project for the open cast mining sites near Sanquhar, led by world renowned land artist Charles Jencks. Illustrated talk at 1.30pm and guided tour to Crawick Artland site (weather and safety permitting) and/or screening of very rare footage about the work of Andy Goldsworthy at 3pm.
20th, 21st, 22nd September
14th,15th, 16th September Wigtownshire Shindig Time: 11am - 4pm 14/09/2013 Location: Whithorn Story Centre, 45/47 George Street, Whithorn DG8 8NS
Henge JC Marshall Location: TBC - see website
Performance by Robin Williamson Time: 7.30pm 20/09/2013 Location: Dalswinton Village Hall, Nr Auldgirth Dumfries
Launch, Wigtownshire Environmental Art Exhibition resource, presentation of image collection, Bird House Trail, Wood for the Trees Exhibition.
Thoughts, words and provocation inspired by Dunragit one of Scotland’s most important Stone-Age sites
Kirkmahoe Concerts presents the multi-instrumentalist, songwriter, founder member of the legendary Incredible String Band. An evening to delight Robin’s many followers, old and new.
Whithorn Lecture 2013 Time: 6pm 14/09/2013 Location: Whithorn Primary School, Castlehill, Whithorn, Newton Stewart, Wigtownshire DG8 8PN David Griffiths, BA, PhD, MA, FSA Scot University of Oxford, will speak on ‘Early Medieval Whithorn: The Irish Sea Context’
Shire Charabanc Time: 10am - 4.30pm 15/09/2013 Location: TBC - see website Wigtownshire Arts on the Move. Artists, Poets, Storytellers travel across the area making stops at places of interest Whithorn, Glenluce, Sandhead, Stranraer, Newton Stewart & Wigtown. Join us by following in your car.
Henge. Wood. Circle. Communing. Theirs. Bypass. Concrete. Line. Commuting. Ours.
Dancing in the Sand Time: 12pm-6pm Date: 16/09/2013 Location: Sandhead Beach, Stoneykirk, Wigtownshire Come and get involved in making a big picture on the shore. Instead of leaving only footprints, leave a body-print linked and dancing with others until the sea plays its part by rubbing out our artwork - as if it had never been.
Left: Archaeological Dig at Dunragit Top right: Dancing in the Sand Bottom right: St Ninian’s Cave, Whithorn.
Tickets: £10 Book via The Midsteeple, Dumfries; Thomas Tosh, Thornhill; the venue on the day; or call David Clark on 01387 740045.
The Stove: The Nithraid Time: 12.30pm - 3.30pm 21/09/2013 Location: Whitesands, Dumfries. DG1 2RN A daring sailing race from Carsethorn to the Caul, culminating in a spectacular and symbolic finish in the heart of Dumfries. Follow boats up the Nith and gather at The Caul for a significant conclusion. Produced by artists collective The Stove.
Left: Dumfries Youth Theatre: Blood Orange Bottom right: Summerhill Land Art - The Amazon
• Evening reception and Film Double Bill contrasting Global and Local environments Time: 6.30pm
Koyaanisqatsi - Life Out of Balance (dir Godfrey Reggio; Music by Philip Glass) & O Joys an Tears (A unique documentary tracing the history of the district surrounding Sanquhar. Produced by Being There Media)
Booking Advised via A’ the Airts: 01659 50514
Dumfries Youth Theatre: Blood Orange Time: 9 -10pm 22/09/2013 Location: Lochside, Dumfries. Ticket holders will be notified of meeting point. The all controlling authority is about to take a cruel bashing, and the oranges are not the only fruits. Booking Essential
Summerhill Land Art - The Amazon Time: TBC 22/09/2013 Location: Summerhill Community Centre, Lochside, Dumfries DG2 9EF Over the last 2 years the ‘Base’ Youth Project have been working to transform an area of open ground in Summerhill. Inspired by a vision of the rain forest, they hired artists James Gordon and Susheila Jamieson and together have created a giant work of Land Art. You are invited to a very special launch event for this unique project.
16 / Environmental Art Festival Scotland 30 Aug - 2 Sept
Environmental Art Festival Scotland 30 Aug - 2 Sept / 17
CAlENDAR FEATURED projects
Cinema Sark, John Wallace & Prof. Pete Smith / p4 • The Rise and Fail of Grey Mare’s Tail, James Winnett / p6 • Gimme Shelter, Pat van Boeckel & Karin van der Molen / p8 • Glimpse, Will Levi Marshall & Donald Urquhart / p11
EVENTS HAPPENING FOR MORE THAN ONE DAY
Balmond Studio: Star of Caledonia Exhibition / p5 • The Passing / p5 • Katie Anderson: Voice from the Phone Box / p5 • Gavin McGregor & Ingrid Shearer: Things that Befell Us in Those Strange Years / p7 • Dalziel & Scullion: Rosnes Bench Exhibition / p9 • Ueno Masao: Dome of Silence / p9 • Tenger Gazariin Dund (Sky and Earth) / p9 • Jo Hodges & Robbie Coleman: The Archivist / p12 • Alice Francis: Solway Sea Monster / p12
Friday 30/8/13
Saturday 31/8/13
Sunday 1/9/13
Monday 2/9/13
The Dark Outside FM 12am - 12pm p6
Visit to Charles Jencks’ Garden of Cosmic Speculation 10am-12:30pm p11
10am
11am
12pm
The Dark Outside FM 12pm - 12am p6
1pm
2pm
Tenger Gazariin Dund (p9)
Guided Walk to The Dome of Silence 1pm - 3pm p9
3pm Star of Caledonia (p5)
Things that Befell us in Those Strange Years (p7)
4pm
5pm
Artist Talk: Katie Anderson 4pm - 5pm / p5
Rosnes Bench Workshop 2pm - 4pm p9
Walking the Tide 2pm - 5:30pm p10
Middle Distance 2pm - 4:30pm p10
Woodland Activities 2pm - 5pm p11
Wild Food Forage 2pm - 5pm p11
Demonstration by Ueno 4pm - 5pm / p9
Sporopollen 4pm - 6pm p7
6pm
7pm
8pm
9pm
EAFS Gathering #3: The Land and Us 6pm - 11pm p8
EAFS Gathering #2: Sound, Nature, Dark Skies 6pm - 11pm p6 EAFS Gathering #1: Debated Land, Maxwell in Music 7.30pm - 11pm p4
Film Screenings: Speaking the Land & Breathing Earth 7.30pm - 10pm p7
An evening of poetry and prose by Kenneth White 7:30pm - 10pm p10
EAFS Gathering #4: Landscape as a Resource - Why Environmental Art? 7pm - 9pm p11
10pm ‘Speaking the Land (p11)
11pm
Our Environmental Commitment
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Environmental Art Festival Scotland is committed to minimising its impact on the environment while maximising social engagement for the economic well-being of the region.
To find out more about our programme and updates on anything TBC, please visit our website:
Working in partnership with Creative Carbon Scotland and the Crichton Carbon Centre, EAFS is measuring and monitoring the social, environmental and economic impacts and benefits of all of its work in order to understand where improvements can be made. We would welcome any suggestions that you would like to make. Once you have finished with this programme, please pass it on or recycle it.
www.environmentalartfestivalscotland.com EAFS c/o Gracefield Arts Centre 28 Edinburgh Road Dumfries Dumfries & Galloway Scotland DG1 1JQ Tel: +44 (0)7791 013 943 Email: info@environmentalartfestivalscotland.com
Access EAFS is an outdoor festival where we aim to make the use of natural environment. Due to the very nature of the outdoor, temporary locations of each of the commission sites and a number of the evening activities, these are not all fully accessible. An icon showing wheelchair access will be displayed on the listing for fully accessible sites. Each of the four main commissions and a number of others will be represented though film or photography on the EAFS website to ensure that those who cannot access sites are not disadvantaged.
For press enquiries, please contact Matthew Shelley: +44 (0)7786 704 299 / MJHShelley@hotmail.co.uk
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