Friends of the Pleistocene

We’re happy to be passing on a call for collaborators for a project we will be taking part in next September at the Kilpisjärvi Biological Station. All are invited to apply and join us in the far north! —– Call for professional collaborators: “Field_Notes – Deep Time” http://bioartsociety.fi/deep_time/ “Field_Notes – Deep Time” “Field_Notes – Deep Time” is [...]

 aerial view of the Euphoria dune shack, image courtesy © Christopher Seufert Photography What does Euphoria look and feel like? Later this month we’ll have a first-hand report to share, as we’ve recently been granted a highly coveted (by some) invitation to inhabit a dune shack named Euphoria in the Province Lands of Cape Cod.  The [...]

Glacial till: the product of relentless grinding, pushing, pulverizing, mashing, sitting, sliding, waiting, flowing, advancing and retreating— repeating. google map of Long Island and Cape Cod Over the next several months we will document and creatively traverse the piles of glacial till that the Laurentide ice sheet left in its wake a couple thousand years [...]

This past week, a number of FOP-worthy topics passed through our hands, feeds, email in-boxes.  Here’s a sampling, selected for their creative or literal engagements with time, forces of change, and design practices. Whidbey Island, image Ted S. Warren/Associated Press 1)  It’s likely that you’ve already heard about the recent landslide on Whidbey Island in [...]

still from Look Only at the Movement, smudge studio 2012-3 still from Look Only at the Movement, smudge studio 2012-3 This spring we’re undertaking a self-taught, crash-course in video editing. Over the past eight+ weeks, we transformed more than twenty hours of raw footage into a video that we’ll exhibit starting this fall. The exhibition [...]