ACES 2011: Conservation Conflicts: strategies for coping with a changing world

ARTIST RESIDENCIES

In a project being led by artist Sera James Irvine, five creative practitioners are working with the ACES team during the lead up to the conference in August, creating work that explores different aspects of conservation conflicts. Work will be on display at the conference, where the artistis will talk about the inspiration for their work and unpack different aspects of conservation conflicts for discussion with the delegates. Click here to download PDF on Artist Residencies

• Dalziel and Scullion's (Dundee) work uses film, sculpture and photography to explores mankind’s relationship with nature and how we interact with the ecology of the earth. They have been selected for important national and international exhibitions including the British Art Show and the Venice Biennale and have been awarded numerous awards and prizes including being short-listed for the international Artes Mundi Prize 2008
• Helen Denerley (Strathdon) re-uses scrap metal to create sculptures inspired by the animal world. Notable public sculpture includes: Dreaming Spires (two giraffes) on Leith Walk, Edinburgh; Dragons at the Eniwa Garden Project, Hokkaido, Japan; various sculptures at the Horizon Enterprise Park, Forres; and a large fossil at the Hugh Miller Museum, Cromarty
• Huw Warren  (Wales) is a pianist and composer. Described by the Guardian as "one of the UK's truly independent spirits", he is recognised as one of Britain's most individual and versatile creative forces with work crossing the divides between jazz, contemporary music and world music
• Esther Woolfson (Aberdeen) writes short stories about nature. Her critically acclaimed short stories have won prizes, appeared in many anthologies and been read on Radio 4. Her book on natural history, "Corvus - a life with birds", reflects on her experience living at close quarters with a number of wild birds in her family home, punctuated by digressions on topics such as birds in folklore, bird physiology, bird evolution, bird flight and bird song.

The residencies have been funded by the 'Creative Futures' program (under Creative Scotland) and supported by ACES and the University of Aberdeen. 'Creative Futures' is an ambitious programme of residencies and related activitie designed to promote the professional development, vision, connectivity and ambitions of Scotland's creative practitioners and organisations. It is the largest co-ordinated residency programme in Europe, allowing for residencies that are single discipline, interdisciplinary, cross sectoral and international.

The artists will be at ACES and the University of Aberdeen for their first session from 26th April to 8th May 2011.

ART EXHIBITION

Art inspired by Conservation Conflicts will be on exhibit at the Aberdeen Arts Centre 22nd of August to August 25th. Preview on Sunday 21st of August 6-8 pm.

VISUALIZATION USING COMPUTER GAME TECHNOLOGY
Environment Division, School of Contemporary Sciences, University of Abertay Representatives from the School of Contemporary Sciences, Environment Division, will be on hand to demonstrate the potential of this technology, show its interactive capapbilities and answer questions. They will also give a presentation to the meeting to describe some of the diverse projects they are involved with in which visualization using computer games is a key component.

This page will continue to be updated as the arts projects develop.

Any questions or inquires? Contact Sera James Irvine at leftbank.tarland@gmail.com