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An Arts and Humanities Research Council funded project ‘Exploring energy and community in the past, present and future’ aims to help to revive public and political conversations about energy by looking in a fresh way at its past, present and future. Artists led by Tipping Point and Visiting arts are working with communities and university researchers.

Story 1: Policy Story: Demanding Times gathers a novel mix of communities of interest around energy policy, and generates new accounts of energy policy and politics past, present and future. Story 2: Industry Story: Future Works is rooted in the English midlands, and seeks to unearth fresh accounts of the long relationship between energy, industrial making and landscape, and explores where it might go next. Story 3: Everyday Story: Life Cycles engages with the role that energy resources have played in shaping communities and everyday life in south Wales.

October 21, 2016

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Art and Energy inspires a drawing class in Crediton, Devon

by Naomi Wright

It is the beginning of term and we stand about discussing our theme for our classes ahead. I suggest art and energy, it interests me for all sorts of reasons. I say I am helping with similar themed workshops with some college students outdoors as part of Regensw’s art and energy programme. I wonder whether it will interest the class. We think about the wide range of meanings for energy. Energy is everything, I say, remembering a recent workshop. In a physical sense, binding the molecules of our being, energy fixed from the sun, in the movement of a river, the heat from a fire, in our food, in the every-day. We have our own energy, in the spirit of the land, in leylines, in happiness, in despair.

So the term at Crediton arts centre has taken this as a theme…. A couple of us are working with an old luccombe oak that has had to be cut down in the local park. We think of the power within, the height and weight of it, the history in it, the energy held beneath in the ground. The dying energy, used by fungus, the last of the leaves to be photosynthisising.

The tree………..

Eileen’s tree

Others in the class discuss their drawings through the eye of an energy lens. Lines are energetic, directioned, growing. The still life is far from still as vegetation takes on a new meaning, pots spin, and all the senses are enlivened.

Rebecca’s pots

We’re all curious in how this will progress… Pat especially, as she has ideas for some new installations.

Naomi Wright is an artist who collaboratively researches the benefits of being outdoors in the elements. In sunshine, wind, or rain she maps and constructs places, things and conversations that make the most of our ecological interplay.

October 20, 2016

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Powerchord and Drawing Energy, Suslab at the RCA

SusLab: a unique international platform to develop successful sustainable innovations for homes.

Suslab are interested in researching peoples perceptions of energy and have recently completed a research project with the RCA on drawing energy. An EU funded international project combines quantitative research with ethnographic design methodology.

October 18, 2016

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Inescapable limits, Thomas Ball, London

Documenting the increased use of unconventional ‘dirty’ energy sources as well as excessive energy consumption, Thomas Ball’s photographs are a stark and honest portrayal of our short term use if the environment.

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October 10, 2016

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HeHe ‘Cloud Crash’

HeHe’s Lovelock Commission ‘Cloud Crash’ collides with MSI Manchester this October

Cloud Crash

What if you could see the effect of our actions on the environment in vivid technicolour?

“We are proud to sponsor this year’s Lovelock Commission, a prestigious collaboration with a history of successfully engaging new audiences with vital issues around climate change. These impressive pieces showcase environmental science in a new light, bringing the science we live and breathe to viewers in a compelling and innovative way.” Alison Robinson, Director of Corporate Affairs, NERC

On the 20th October, for Cape Farewell’s annual Lovelock Art Commission at the Museum of Science and Industry, Manchester (MSI), Paris-based artists HeHe – Helen Evans and Heiko Hansen – present the world premiere of Cloud Crash. The artists have taken inspiration from pioneering climate scientist James Lovelock’s Gaia Theory and ground-breaking science funded by the Natural Environment Research Council (NERC), to bring atmospheric science powerfully to life across the MSI site.

Three exciting new pieces placed in-situ across the museum – Airbag, Burnout and Diamonds In The Sky – depict micro-climates, pollution and artificially engineered clouds in provocative new contexts, blurring the boundaries between the natural and the man-made. They ask us to consider society’s role in environmental destabilisation, and ways forward to a cleaner, healthier future.

This year our Lovelock programme collaborates with NERC’s Into The Blue campaign, a series of showcase events in the Northwest throughout October that celebrate the environmental science we live and breathe.

‘Clouds act upon the climate in both real and imaginary ways. Earth’s atmosphere is changing in such profound ways that the notion of pure natural clouds, untouched by mankind, belong to a more innocent age. The visual presence of man-made clouds, increasingly rare, lays bare the inseparable relationship between humans and the environment.’ HeHe, 2016

Cloud Crash opens as a headline event for The Manchester Science Festival on the 20 October 2016 and runs until 4 February 2017 – view the full Press Release HERE

Search #CloudCrash or #msf16 for more info.

Key dates:

Cloud Crash Preview and In-Conversation – Thursday 20 October 2016, 6:00pm – 8:00pm – HeHe present a special viewing of their new work Cloud Crash. HeHe discuss how their installations offer a cultural response to James Lovelock’s work, while scientists from the Natural Environment Research Council reveal their latest research into atmospherics.

Cloud Crash Artists Tours and Family Workshops – Saturday 22 October 2016, 10:00am – 5:00pm all day – Join HeHe on artist-led tours across the three pieces, and take part in drop-in family workshops bringing pollution to life in words and pictures, led by the wonderful artist Emma Harnett.

July 14, 2016

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Paintsmiths visit Heron Road by Felix ‘FLX’ Braun and Jack ‘Dones’

The Scaffolding recently came down on a new mural from Paintsmiths which, for this work, was Felix and Jack Tiernay for Bristol City Council and the Warm Up Bristol Campaign show home over at 56 Heron Road, Easton, BS5.

The mural itself is a stunning piece of work showing off the house itself and lots of examples of the old types of energy and the new sustainable energies that are now available.

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Visit Warm Up Bristol’s show home

We’ve created a show home in Easton so that you can see first hand how you can make your home warmer with energy saving insulation and other measures. Come along and find out what a difference our energy saving measures can make!

Show home opening times?

You will be able to visit the property at 56 Heron Road, Easton, BS5 0LU throughout 2016 on the following days:

Tuesday: 9.30 – 4.30
Thursday: 9.30 – 4.30
Saturday: 10.30 – 2.30

Why visit the show home?

At our show home you will be able to see what energy saving measures can be installed in a Victorian era mid-terrace property. We have installed underfloor insulation throughout the ground floor, new insulation to the bathroom ceiling/roof space, internal wall insulation in the kitchen and bathroom and external wall insulation to the front and back of the property. We have new double-glazed windows that have humidity reactive trickle vents, a passive ventilation unit in the kitchen and bathroom and many simpler and cheaper to install measures including low flow taps and draught-proofing. The show home has been retrofitted with new energy saving improvements by one of Bristol’s SME’s Urbane ECO and was funded via Warm Up Bristol.

Our community partners, Easton Energy Group, are managing the property and will be there to explain the different measures available, show you samples and help you register for our initiative. They will also be hosting other activities such as knit and natter sessions and hosting the travelling seamstress who will help you make your own draught-proofing sausage dog as a cheap and simple way to keep those draughts at bay and make your home warmer to live in.

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