Dear Critters,
I'd like to invite any potential reviewers to the opening night of this
exhibition - Thursday the 6th June, with drinks and music - on forests and
conceptions of history. It's free to anyone who wants to come, and brings
in various types of geographical research - with the support of Landscape
Surgery, at Royal Holloway. Some of you on the list have kindly supported
it with contributions too.
Very best,
Amy
*
*
*Time, the deer, is in the wood of Hallaig
/ Tha tìm, am fiadh,
an Coille Hallaig*
This free exhibition investigates the properties of forest memory through
text, archive, and ‘xylarium’, or wood collection. Between the French
horticultural term “forest trauma” and Robert Pogue Harrison’s “forests of
nostalgia”, a whole discipline around history, witnessing, and the memorial
qualities of woodland opens up. Art works examining the cultural
expression of time and history in the forest are placed here alongside
archival photographs, small press texts, artefacts, and museum objects, in
an old, low-lit belfry designed by Sir John Soane.
*But, mean glory of the world, / misshapen memory of other seasons, / the
forest remains*
- Andrea Zanzotto
We would like to invite you to the opening night on Thursday the 6th June,
beginning at 7.30pm, with free wine and performances by David Chatton
Barker<http://www.davidchattonbarker.com/>
, Rob St. John <http://robstjohn.tumblr.com/>, and Sam and the
Plants<http://samandtheplants.com/>,
using instruments made of found wood. We would particularly like to invite
those who may be keen to review, blog, or photograph the exhibition, as
well as to meet the people involved.
------------------
A candle-lit collection on forests, memory, and social and natural history
● Cabinets of book works, wood works, paintings, drawings, prints, film
projection, and music ● Wood specimens and photographs from Kew's Museum of
Economic Botany <http://www.kew.org/collections/ecbot/>, English
Heritage<http://www.english-heritage.org.uk/>,
the Epping Forest
archive<http://www.visitessex.com/Loughton-Epping-Forest/details/?dms=13&venue=0248864>,
the London Metropolitan
Archives<http://www.cityoflondon.gov.uk/things-to-do/visiting-the-city/archives-and-city-history/london-metropolitan-archives/Pages/default.aspx>,
and local collectors ● Tree ring slices and materials from dendrochronology
labs ● Installations and one-off editions from forty artists, including
Colin Sackett, Chris Drury, Bryan Nash Gill, Richard Skelton, herman de
vries, Katsutoshi Yuasa, and Stefka Mueller
The Belfry art gallery (Grade 1 listed), St John on Bethnal Green, 200
Cambridge Heath Road, E2 9PA <http://www.stjohnonbethnalgreen.org/>
*Opening night**: Thursday 6th June, 7.30pm till late: Super 8 visuals and
wood music by David Chatton Barker, Sam and the Plants, and Rob St. John,
with exhibition viewing, free wine, and *Nostalgia
Forest<http://www.oystercatcherpress.com/acutler.html>
* book launch (Amy Cutler, Oystercatcher Press)*
*Normal hours: **6th till 11th June/ weeknights 7-9pm, weekends 12-6pm*
*------------------*
This exhibition is taking place with the support of Landscape
Surgery<http://landscapesurgery.wordpress.com/about/> at
Royal Holloway.
CURATOR: Amy Cutler <http://amycutler.wordpress.com/>
ARTISTS / CONTRIBUTORS: Alec Finlay <http://www.alecfinlay.com/>, Peter
Larkin <http://www.shearsman.com/pages/books/authors/larkinA.html>, herman
de vries <http://www.hermandevries.org/>, Jeff
Hilson<http://www.bbk.ac.uk/cprc/publications/Veer_Publications/Veer030>
, Colin Sackett <http://www.colinsackett.co.uk/>, Gerry
Loose<http://www.gerryloose.com/>
, Justin Hopper <http://www.justin-hopper.com/>, Carol
Watts<http://www.realitystreet.co.uk/carol-watts.php>
, Camilla Nelson <http://www.camillanelson.co.uk/>, Anthony
Barnett<http://www.abar.net/>
, Edmund Hardy <http://www.edmundhardy.info/>, Una Hamilton
Helle<http://landscapeandmyth.blogspot.co.uk/2009/12/una-hamilton-helle.html>
, Katsutoshi Yuasa <http://www.katsutoshiyuasa.com/>, Richard
Skelton<http://richardskelton.wordpress.com/>
, Autumn Richardson <http://typerecords.com/releases/wolf-notes-2>, Julian
Konczak <http://ssudl.solent.ac.uk/2343/>, Bryan Nash
Gill<http://www.bryannashgill.com/>
, Amy Cutler <http://amycutler.wordpress.com/>, Tom
Noonan<http://tomnoonan.co.uk/>
, Chris Drury <http://chrisdrury.co.uk/>, Paul van
Dijk<http://www.paul-van-dijk.com/>
, Frances Hatherley <http://thereddeeps.blogspot.co.uk/>, David Chatton
Barker <http://www.davidchattonbarker.com/>, James
Aldridge<http://www.jamesaldridge-artist.co.uk/>
, Chris Paul Daniels <http://chrispauldaniels.com/>, Frances
Presley<http://www.shearsman.com/pages/books/authors/presleyA.html>
, Stefka Mueller <http://stefkamueller.carbonmade.com/>, Gail
Ritchie<http://www.gailritchie.com/>
, Christina White <http://www.christinawhitephotography.co.uk/>, Paul
Gough<http://people.uwe.ac.uk/Pages/person.aspx?accountname=campus%5Cp-gough>,
Morven Gregor, Perdita Phillips <http://www.perditaphillips.com/>, Amy
Todman <http://amytodman.blogspot.co.uk/>, Peter
Jaeger<http://www.saltpublishing.com/writers/profile.php?recordID=202060>,
Zoe Hope, Zoë Skoulding <http://www.zoeskoulding.co.uk/>, Peter
Foolen<http://peterfoolen.blogspot.co.uk/>
, Phil Smith / Mythogeography <http://www.mythogeography.com/>, Cees de
Boer <http://www.hermandevries.org/articles/article_1998_boer.php>, Carlea
Holl-Jensen <http://carleacassyl.wordpress.com/portfolio/>, Tony
Lopez<http://www.tonylopez.org.uk/>
, Will Montgomery <http://selvageflame.com/>, Michael
Hampton<http://www.wildnewterritories.com/Art%20Monthy%20WNT%20.pdf>
, Kate Morrell<http://www.rca.ac.uk/Default.aspx?ContentID=509428&CategoryID=36646>
, Ben Borek <http://www.eggboxpublishing.com/authors/show/ben_borek>, Natalia
Janota <http://www.nataliajanota.com/>, Sung Hee
Jin<http://www.amazon.co.uk/Snow-Lit-Rev-Osip-Mandelstam/dp/0907954480/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1368563854&sr=1-1>
, Martin Bridge
<http://www.ucl.ac.uk/archaeology/people/staff/bridge>, Nicholas
Branch <http://www.reading.ac.uk/shes/about/staff/>, Mike
Baillie<http://www.qub.ac.uk/schools/gap/Staff/AcademicStaff/ProfEmeritusMikeBaillie/>
WITH THANKS: Kate Maxwell, John Wylie, Giles Goodland, Justin Hopper, Kris
Rockwell, Jamie Wilkes, Sally Davies, Sally Armisen, Peggy Seymour, Sean
Powley, Amy Francis-Smith, Richard, Neville Midwood, Nicholas, Liberty
Rowley, Lee Wagstaff, Susan Holl, Carlea Holl-Jensen, Esther Rowley, Mark
James, Susan Wright, Matthew Riley, Felix Driver, Harriet Hall, Cara
Jessop, Thomas Jellis, Andrew Ray, Matthew Sperling, Candice Boyd, Katie
Murphy, Louise Joly, Camilla Nelson, Alice Clark, Innes Keighren, Peter
Larkin, Sue Edney, Tilla Brading, Jo Norcup, Sandra Wright, Hilary Orange,
Simon Howard, Edmund Hardy, Jenny O’Sullivan, Alexandra Parsons, Charlotte
Jones, Sefryn Penrose, Paul Warde, Leo Cutler, Clare Williams, Sarah
Browncross, Caroline Cornish, Martin Bridge, Xas Arnaud, Diana Hale, and
Gavin MacGregor
--
PASSENGERFILMS <http://passengerfilms.wordpress.com/> public cinema for
cultural geography
LAND DIAGRAMS <http://landdiagrams.wordpress.com/> new twinned studies
Write off the map <http://amycutler.wordpress.com/> academic blog
Ambassador for Public
Engagement<http://www.publicengagement.ac.uk/how-we-help/ambassadors/amy-cutler>
