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

Monday, June 28, 2010

Valley of Weeping...

The Glencoe Massacre took place in the early hours of 13 February 1692. Government troops, led by the Campbells, slaughtered the MacIans (a sept of the MacDonalds) in their settlements in Glencoe in Argyll, Scotland.

On the anniversary of the Glencoe Massacre the Glen is haunted by the Glencoe ghosts who re-enact the massacre. The screams and cries of men and women can be heard throughout Glencoe whose name in Gaelic means "The Valley of Weeping."

http://www.aboutaberdeen.com/glencoeghosts.php
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