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Photographer: Jennileena Westman
The fairway to Up and Under on 6th of March. In memoriam gathered friends and colleagues of Nancy Holt, international guests and local people to Up and Under. Circle was an important shape for Nancy Holt. Circle of candles reflected and honoured that. Artist Osmo Rauhala told how the cooperation and friendship with Nancy had started. Special relationship to nature and and art connected Osmo and Nancy. Pekka Ruuska (right), Managing Director of Strata, showed Up and Under to Ben Tufnell, curator and writer based in London. Ben Tufnell's eulogy in Fire and Land was the speech he presented to Nancy Holt in the International Sculpture Center Gala Awards in New York 2013. Osmo Rauhala (left), (Hanna Westman translations), Alena J. Williams, Ben Tufnell and Kaisa Kirkko-Jaakkola. Alena J. Williams curated the international traveling exhibition Nancy Holt: Sightlines (2010-13) and published the accompanying first retrospective book on Holt's work with University of California Press in 2011. Copyright: Strata 2014
Please contact info@strataproject.org for use permission. Photographer: Jennileena Westman
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I never got to meet Nancy Holt but her artwork Up and Under have had a great influence on my thoughts during last years. This short text is also respond to the article recently published in LA Times by David Colker. The article mentiones that with Up and Under, there has been silence. I hope the thoughts may also inspire a discussions considering the public art conservation in general. What happens to an public artwork when it´s ready? - Pekka Ruuska, Managing Director of Strata Project
Azolla is one of the world's fastest growing plants and a rich source of nutrients. Yet it is virtually unexplored as a foodstuff for human consumption. In The Azolla Cooking and Cultivation Project artists, researchers, farmers, gardeners, chefs and scientists experiment with cooking and cultivating thewater fern Azolla. The book is available as free pdf, as paperback at Amazon US / UK and as e-book at Kindle Store. Project is created by artist Erik Sjödin. An artist and researcher based in Stockholm and Bergen.
Thanks for The Center for the Sustainable Practise in the Arts to inspire this topic. Outlandia is an off-grid, treehouse observatory imagined by artists London Fieldworks and designed by award-winning Malcolm Fraser Architects. Inspired by childhood dens, wildlife hides and bothies, by forest outlaws and Japanese poetry platforms, it is located in a copse of Norwegian Spruce and Larch in Glen Nevis on Forestry Commission land at the foot of Ben Nevis in the Scottish Highlands, two miles from the town of Fort William. Outlandia is an artist-led project built as a platform for fieldwork and cross-disciplinary research, which during its time of service could provide a multi-purpose platform for the use of diverse community groups as well as selected artists. Outlandia is in line with The Scottish Forestry Strategy that aims to create opportunities for more people to enjoy trees, woods and forests in Scotland, and to help communities benefit from woods and forests. Read more.
Plastic Bottles (2007) via Chris Jordan: Two million plastic beverage bottles, the number used in the US every five minutes.
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