I tried emailing this from my mobile - but it didn't reach the blog.. so here it is, sorted..
Date: 2009/6/18
Subject: Living Landscapes - thursday
Im at Aberystwyth University for a 4 day, action-packed conference on landscape & environment.
So first thing we learnt how to say welcome in Welsh.. Croeso... And the welsh word for locality, place to which one belongs, locating humanlife in the environment is Cynefin.
George Monbiot gave a moving opening address, with todays climate report an ominous challenge, but stressing the need for us all to engage with climate breakdown as the pervading issue, and using creativity to get peoples prefrontal cortexs waking up from denial, and minds changing.
Then a plenary on 'post-discplinary' exchange, from material science to theatre research and cultural geogaphy.
Next a performance/pesentation/paper from the weeklong body weather residential in snowdonia - bhuto, permeable nature and body/landscape as continuously changing and bringing eachother into being. Nice.
Acoustic landscapes with wildlife sound recordist Chris Watson was great, loved the female cheetah purring. And the amazing mini habitat of flies and vultures inside the carcass of azebra. Freshly killed zebra.
For a bedtime dreaming his 16 min. Installation of 12 hour desert night sounds of the kalahari... I can still 'see' the stars!And inbetween all that was an hour performance of an audio piece for and about the Ancolme valley in lincolnshire. (look s a lot like the somerset levels...)
More tomorrow.... With an early 7am start for performances in the landscape workshop.
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