Transcribing Landscape (portraits and tales)
residential short course at Schumacher College, Devon, UK
Monday 20 - Friday 24 June 2016

A reminder about this residential short course happening in June in the UK.

This is a rare opportunity to work with two of the region's most renowned artists: poet Fiona Benson and artist Garry Fabian Miller. Together with sound artist Richard Povall, who facilitates the week, they represent three voices from across the artistic spectrum. So all are welcome, whatever your creative inclination, and all will find ways to connect in to this rich array of creative input.

We are exploring landscape: it's touch, smells, sights, sounds, and stories (be they invented or real). You might work with the river, or in a field, or with a tree, or even in the splendour of Dartington's famous formal gardens, or within the medieval Deer Park in the North Wood.  You'll find new voices and new stories and new ways of telling them, giving you new skills and new models of working.

So please join us if you can for this residential week as we explore our relationship with landscape; part of Schumacher College's Art and Ecology Programme.  Transcribing Landscape is convened by poet Fiona Benson and artist-researcher Richard Povall. Our special guest is the renowned photographic artist Garry Fabian Miller.

The narratives of landscape expose how we feel about our planet, how we act in it, how we care for it, how it moves us. Deeper forms of connection to the non-human through word, act, and imagining help us find other forms of knowledge and ways of being in the world. Can we gain new understandings of the ecology of our planet and our world at a time when this seems perhaps more important than ever? Science and its knowledges are failing to move us, to jolt us into feeling the fragility of the planet in which we all live, despite the clarity of their evidences and the increasing baldness of their language.

You will spend time in the landscape of the beautiful and diverse estate at Dartington Hall, walking, listening, meditating, making, marking, exploring, accepting, questioning, and writing. There will also be time for private making as well as group sessions and critiques.

Get more detailed information at https://www.schumachercollege.org.uk/courses/short-courses/transcribing-landscape-portraits-and-tales.  Places are limited and are now filling.

The course links to a two-day symposium the following week (June 29-30) entitled ‘Language, Landscape and the Sublime’ which picks up on many of the themes you can explore in this short course. Find more information at www.languagelandscape.info.

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