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Landscape and the Science Fiction Imaginary

Artist/Author: John Timberlake | Reference: P3592 | ISBN: 978-1783208609 | Type: Publication

There has been plenty of scholarship on science fiction over the decades, but it has left one crucial aspect of the genre all but unanalyzed: the visual; this publication makes a powerful argument for science fiction as a visual cultural discourse.

The Pennine Way: The Legs That Made Us

Editor: Tamara Ashley and Simone Kenyon | Reference: P2973 | ISBN: 9780954907310 | Type: Publication

In the summer of 2006, the two artists travelled across the Pennine Way creating a choreographic pathway – a shared journey and celebration of walking as dance and dancer as traveller.

Performance and the Global City

Editor: D.J. Hopkins, Kim Solga | Reference: P2955 | ISBN: 978-1137520258 | Type: Publication

The book explores what it means to create and experience urban performance – as both an aesthetic and a political practice – in the burgeoning world where cities are built by globalization and neoliberal capital.

Arte para uma cidade sensível / Art for a sensitive city

Artist/Author: Brígida Campbell | Reference: P2864 | ISBN: 978-85-66129-22-9 | Type: Publication

The publication explores art created in public spaces in Brazil, since 2000. In Portuguese and English. Published under the Creative Commons licence. 

Remote Performances in Nature and Architecture

Editor: Bruce Gilchrist, Jo Joelson, Tracey Warr | Reference: P2778 | ISBN: 978-1-4724-5391-4 | Type: Publication

This book explores the relationship between place and forms of thought and creative activity, relating Outlandia, an off-grid artists’ fieldstation, and the artists there, to the tradition of generative thinking and making structures that have included Goethe’s Gartenhaus in Weimar, Henry Thoreau’s cabin at Walden Pond and Dylan Thomas’s writing shack in Laugharne.

Capitol Complex/Ulterior Vistas

Artist/Author: Tris Vonna-Michell | Reference: P2694 | ISBN: 9781907185144 | Type: Publication

The publication is constructed around the two works, Capitol Complex (2012–2014) and Ulterior Vistas (2012–2013), both of which are encapsulated on a ten-inch vinyl record. The spoken-word compositions are enclosed within a gatefold design and accompanied by the Capitol Complex manuscript as a booklet insert and a bound series of Ulterior Vistas photographic montages. Format hardback: + 10″ vinyl record. Printed in an edition of 500.

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).

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).

Lament

Artist/Author: Richard Ashrowan | Reference: P2492 | ISBN: 978056172808 | Type: Publication

Richard Ashrowan considers the geopoetics of the Anglo/Scots borderline, travelling to several points on the border and beginning a meditation into the meanings that might be revealed within its landscape