An exploration of sculpture’s relationship to landscape and the body as viewed through the lens of the artist-traveler.


Our workshop will examine the notion of travel through such examples as Baudelaire’s flâneur, the Situationists’ theory of Psychogeography, and artists ranging from Robert Smithson and Richard Long, to Francis Alys and Olaf Breuning. We will conduct a series of exercises, expeditions, and missions including the creation of livable shelter-sculptures to inhabit on a weekend camping trip in the Scottish Highlands. Bedouin tents, arctic research stations, camper vans, Hoovervilles, hunting blinds, and interplanetary spacecraft serve as our inspirational points of departure...


Participants:

Matt King (Instructor), Andrew Cobb, Zoe Golden, Rebecca Henderson, Elise Isom, Mitchell Petersen, Cameron Robinson, Andrew Schmidt, Emily Stokes


The Glasgow Artists and Writers Workshop

Virginia Commonwealth University

Glasgow, Scotland, June 22nd - July 23rd, 2010

Saturday, June 26, 2010

Beach Wolf

Hey I dont really know how to use this blog thingy, but ill figure it out i guess! scotland is a good time, though we might not make it home after this camping trip we're going on. i had no idea this was going to be so for real. but i am siked. goin into the scottish hills to live for a couple days sounds good to me! Apparently there are these mosquito things called midges that are going to eat us alive, this is a pic of one of them. cool hair. hopefully they like americans, we'll see.
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  1. Matt KingJune 26, 2010 at 6:18 PM

    I'm pretty sure that's a fishing fly, unless the midges come equipped with hooks (a possibility from what the locals say).

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