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The Wild Places

Artist/Author: Robert Macfarlane | Reference: P2507 | ISBN: 978-1847080189 | Type: Publication

An account of visits to various remote places in order to evoke their spirit of wildness punctuated with reflections on climate change, on destruction of habitat, and on the matters of time and belonging. This item is part of the Study Room Guide to Remoteness (P2600).

Maps of the Imagination: The Writer as Cartographer

Artist/Author: Peter Turchi | Reference: P2513 | ISBN: 978-1595340412 | Type: Publication

Using the map as a metaphor, the author explores how writers and cartographers use many of the same devices for plotting and executing their work. This item is part of the Study Room Guide to Remoteness (P2600).

Setting the Fell on Fire: Allenheads Contemporary Arts Contemporary Art in a Rural Context

Artist/Author: Tracey Warr et al. | Reference: P2514 | ISBN: 9780955747830 | Type: Publication

This book is an account of Allenheads Contemporary Arts (ACA)’s development through a programme of residencies, projects, exhibitions and events that accompany relations with community and environment. This item is part of the Study Room Guide to Remoteness (P2600).

Performing Site-Specific Theatre: Politics, Place, Practice

Editor: Anna Birch and Joanne Tompkins | Reference: P2401 | Type: Publication

‘Performing Site-Specific Theatre turns a critical eye to the form of site-specific theatre, investigating the nature of the relationship between ‘site’ and ‘performance’. Contributors: Joanne Thompkins, Anna Birch, Michael McKinnie, Susan Bennett, Julie Sanders, Jane Collins, John Webster, Mike Pearson, Kathleen Irwin, Susan Haedicke, Lesley Ferris, Louise Owen, Keren Zaiontz, Bruce Barton, Richard Windeyer, Helen Iball, Sophie Nield

Social Sculpture: The Rise of the Glasgow Art Scene

Artist/Author: Sarah Lowndes | Reference: P2334 | ISBN: 9781906817596 | Type: Publication

History of Glasgow arts cultures 1855-2010, 2nd edition.

Culture Class

Artist/Author: Martha Rosler | Reference: P2341 | ISBN: 9781934105818 | Type: Publication

Essays written 2010-2012 with an introduction by Stephen Squibb

Manual for Marginal Places

Reference: P1623 | ISBN: 978-0-9568405-0-9 | Type: Publication

This is a textbook for exploring the peripheral, acknowledging marginal acts as well as marginal places. There is no definitive way of defining what is marginal. This item is part of the Study Room Guide to Remoteness (P2600).

AA And Away

Artist/Author: Carlos Noronha Feio | Reference: P1611 | Type: Publication

Exhibition publication, 2 Oct 2009 – 25 Oct 2009, Transition Gallery, London.

 

 

Walk With Me, Walk With Me, Will Somebody Please Walk With Me

Artist/Author: Lone Twin | Reference: D1330 | Digital Reference: ED1330 | Type: Digital File

This documentation has since been presented with the permission of the artist as part of the Performance Matters, Performing Idea, Performance Lecture Archive; an interactive video archive housed at the Whitechapel Gallery between 2-9 October 2010. The archive looked at examples of the performance lecture as a form of artistic and critical expression and its potential to address a broad range of cultural issues and philosophical ideas. This item is referenced in the Making Routes Study Room Guide (P1964) and the Study Room Guide On shit, piss, blood, sweat and tears by Lois Keidan (P2195)

You Get Me

Artist/Author: Blast Theory | Reference: D1497 | Type: DVD

A documentary game about understanding, mediation and place. It connects two sites that although they are only five miles apart geographically are separated by a much larger cultural gulf.

Selected Works 2001-2009

Artist/Author: David Blandy | Reference: D1282 | Type: DVD

A Study Room Guide to Remoteness

Artist/Author: Tracey Warr | Reference: P2600 | Type: Publication

For one week in August 2014, 20 specially commissioned artist performances and programmes created with local residents will be broadcast live from Outlandia, a unique artists' field-station in Glen Nevis, Lochaber, Scotland. With Resonance104.4fm’s mobile studio ‘in residence’, Outlandia will become a portal between Lochaber and the rest of the world, a context in which participants can transmit experience of place to diverse audiences through art, music and performance.

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