Circumpolar installation has been created for the Edinburgh International Science Festival 2016 and is on show from 4th until 9th April 2016 at the Edinburgh Centre for Carbon Innovation (ECCI). Circumpolar explores the act of migration along with the idea of borders and boundaries through the life of an incredible bird – the Arctic […]
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Following a five day artist fieldwork at Outlandia in Glen Nevis, Scotland, Yulia Kovanova worked in collaboration with artist Olivia Tutton. The collaboration resulted in a video installation and poem, presented at the Tent Gallery, Edinburgh in December 2015. A place to stay A place to sway Let me dance on […]
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Emergence: Living Matters was Biological Architecture Lab (BAL) project and collaboration with scientist Eric Thorand. The exhibition explored manipulation and comparisons of human and microscopic scales. cells float slower than humans move in microscopic spheres cells travel faster than earth’s orbit round ball-of-sun in scale equivalence units of matter/ matters of […]
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Outlandia is an off-grid treehouse artist studio and field station in Glen Nevis, Lochaber, Scotland. A flexible meeting space in the forest for creative collaboration and research. Created by artists Bruce Gilchrist & Jo Joelson, designed by Malcolm Fraser Architects and constructed by local builder Norman Clark, Outlandia is inspired by […]
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Forest Fates Three maidens/women/crones sit at their work. They are creating together, spinning, weaving, and cutting. Or so it seems, though if there is a cloth it is unlike anything you are familiar with. Everything about this scene shifts and changes according to unseen whims and circumstances. They even seem to shift amongst […]
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Eyes close shut and the world disappears. Light fades and the reality we perceive with our eyes shifts though the objects in space physically remain the same. Our world is fraught with complexities in perception. Our inner world is invisible to the eyes and yet can be expressed or said […]
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It’s a curious phenomenon: when someone who has made an indelible impression on us dies, they leave behind a vacuum. And there’s this strange ambivalence. It’s almost as if it depends on which filter or prism we view it through: with one, we get an impression of their absence by […]
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Tension tends to be viewed as uncomfortable, something to avoid. Yet it is there, at the points where forces are pulling in different directions, that a space is created. Here we find life that exists between and because of the opposing things. The opposition is necessary, as long as it […]
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