The Content of Nothing :: Introduction
We are pleased to be able to say that over the next eight weeks we are going to publish a series of chapters jointly written by two of Scotland’s most interesting artists working with environmental and...
View ArticleThe Content of Nothing :: Part 1 :: The Ether
Judy Spark: “Aerial Coil” (B/W print Courtesy of BT Archives) and “Of Origins Unknown; the Galena Radio”from Tuning to the Ether, Cupar Festival of Visual Art, 2009 Judy Spark: This work, consisting of...
View ArticleThe Content of Nothing :: Part 2 :: Purposeful non-doing
Samantha Clark: ‘A Year of Breathing’Project for Natural Balance: Equilibrio Natural, Girona, Spain, May 2009 Samantha Clark: In 2009 was asked to make a proposal for an eco-art exhibition called...
View ArticleThe Content of Nothing :: Part 3 :: On Gaps
Samantha Clark: ‘Instruments for Observing the Universe *3 : Gravity Boots’Allenheads Contemporary Arts, Northumberland August 2013 Samantha Clark: According to astronomers we can only actually...
View ArticleThe Content of Nothing :: Part 4 :: On Attending
“A Sort of Visual Rhythm: Symphoricarphos” from Back to the Things Themselves GFVA 2012 Samantha Clark: I was really interested in how you see the role of drawing within your practice. It seems to me...
View ArticleContent of Nothing :: Part 6 :: On Hope
Judy Spark: Untitled, digital print (500 x 309mm approximately) 2010 [In the previous post, Samantha Clark had been talking about the ethical import of wonder in the work of Ronald Hepburn, Suzi...
View ArticleContent of Nothing :: Part 7 :: Making and Writing
Judy Spark: We have talked about ‘hope’ and about ‘wonder’ but looking around at those mechanisms that will seek to commodify almost every realm of human endeavour the second it appears, it’s easy to...
View ArticleContent of Nothing :: Part 8 :: ….it moves, actually, in a Reticulum
Judy Spark, Untitled, digital print (300 x 140mm approximately) 2013 Judy Spark: You remarked earlier that you feel that for you it’s “important to keep a lightness to creative work” and I would...
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