Water
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Braid Walk
From Mouth to Source: Walking the Braid Burn Watercourse along three adjoining burns: Figgate, Braid, Bonaly What can we learn from walking a watercourse? Between April and August 2023, artist and curator Jonathan Baxter as part of his Craigmillar & Communities Residency led four group walks in collaboration with poet Helen Boden, visual artist Sarah…
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Art Walk Journal 2: Vessel
VESSEL connects Portobello’s coastal ecologies with global questions relating to water, fracture and care in response to the climate crisis. Embracing a wide range of subjects, including collective consumption, climate-induced migration, aridity and drought, tourism, waste processing and more, the nine artists and contributors, working across a range of geographies (including one international digital residency)…
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Measuring Time through the Fall of Water
An immersive video installation from artist collective HUNITI GOLDOX (Areej Huniti & Eliza Goldox) – Jordan/Germany. The work contemplates the intersectionality of lines –infrastructures that impose certain interpretations of the world while rendering others invisible. The work features contemporary reenactments of a water clock – a time-keeping technique from ancient times that relies on the…
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Stool to Stool
By connecting Portobello’s industrial past sanitary ware manufacturing with the present-day wastewater treatment plant in Seafield, MURRAY MORRANT takes a playful approach to expose the hidden infrastructures that supports our daily lives and envisions the possible future trajectory that lie ahead. Through collective casting workshops on the beach in Portobello to produce transient vessels, and…
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Repel and attract
Inspired by the unexpected presence of tomato seedlings thriving in the water treatment plant at Seafield, TONYA McMULLAN develops connections between waste, water, ecology and scent. This work also connects to the artist’s love of community gardens, several of which thrive in the areas around Seafield and Portobello and are at the forefront of innovative…
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Braid Walk
A series of monthly walks with two additional workshopsApril to September 2023 Walking from mouth to source along three adjoining burns: Figgate, Braid and Bonaly, these walks took their inspiration from the way of water – its flow and healing powers – and the poetry to be found in the name Braid Burn: Burn (landform): …
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Quota
CHRISTINA RILEY: Bottom towed fishing vessels are highly destructive to underwater ecologies including living seabed ecosystems which take millennia to form. Physically disruptive of the seafloor and indiscriminately collecting everything in their path, they result in the unintentional catch and loss of non-target marine species and their habitats. Less than 5% of Scotland’s inshore seabed…
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Buoyancy in unprecedented times
JENNY POPE connects early innovations in maritime travel with today’s climate crisis in order to address questions of collective anxiety and resilience. The project’s focal point is a hand-built ‘lifeboat’, a sculptural object influenced by coracles – small, rounded vessels used for millennia in Scotland, Wales and Ireland as well as in India, Iraq, Tibet…
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ENDLESS/BELLY
Curated by Natasha Thembiso Ruwona, ENDLESS/BELLY brings together varied art forms that interrogate myth, spirituality and memory in response to Black Ecologies. Its title plays with the idea that the sea is spatio- temporal and that it holds history, dis/connects geographies and is entrusted to carry lives. ENDLESS/BELLY suggests an excavation of Scotland’s role in shaping the Black…
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I looked out and saw plumes of salty air
As glaciers melt and heat evaporates water, the seas have changed. Matthews is testing speculative fictional environments in order to transform neoliberal apocalyptic narratives of doom and find hope in the dark. Weaving narratives from this parallel reality, Matthews is creating a salt world. Their work asks: how might bodies evolve to live with so much salt? And…