Archiverainforest fieldwork
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Out of timeA cross-disciplinary exhibition inspired by the arts of taxidermy, June 2007, Hunterian Zoology Museum, Glasgow University
artists: Jethro Brice - Kate Foster - Andrea Roe out of time was an exhibition inspired by the arts of taxidermy, showing work by artists and geographers. It takes great skill to separate a skin from a body, and then to rearrange it in a lifelike form. Taxidermy is one way that dead animals are preserved for collections, giving animals an extended ‘afterlife’. Animals remains are transported into the realms of human culture - and if they are acquired by a zoological museum, they survive in a hushed and unruffled world, without daylight or changes in climate. Specimens may endure when a species becomes extinct or endangered, perversely becoming more valuable. Each of the different exhibits shows something taken ‘out of time’. We looked at those fine lines between life and death, nature and culture, the artificial and the real. Lines of EnquiryIn 1907 the Geological Memoir for the North-West Highlands of Scotland was published, a marker point in the construction of geological knowledge. Following the Centenary Conference in Ullapool, May 2007, "Lines of Enquiry" were pursued collaboratively by an artist, geographer and geologist, taking an oblique view of how geologists make geology. Click on this circle for more about Lines of Enquiry:
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Count Raggi's BirdA book, written after finding a box marked "FEATHERS"
THE BIOGRAPHY OF A LIEA tailor-made collection of body jewellery for birds which were nearly made extinct by the plumage trade. The ‘models’ came from the Hunterian Zoology collection in Glasgow University. This exhibition was supported by Glasgow City Council.
successionThe "MOORLAND BED" in Glasgow Botanic Gardens is a microcosm, a case study of processes. This work was made possible by a personal millennial award from RIAS.
SandbagA massive sandbag, made with the guidance of the 52nd Lowland Regiment
Book of WaterA contemporary Book of Water - with word lists on paper 9 x88 cm, the least and most sea level is expected to rise this century. A filing cabinet 79 cm x 79 cm, a space of uncertainty between 9 and 88. A sound installation located in a basement, at the heart of a sea water circulation system.
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