Edinburgh College of Art Tent Gallery

Collins & Goto: Spirit in the Air, CO2Edinburgh

1 – 22 August 2013

Collins & Goto, Plein Air: The Ethical Aesthetic Impulse, 2010

Spirit in the Air is a development of the Eden3 project; an art-based climate initiative developing critical methods and artwork that encourage new, empathetic ways of thinking about the inter-relationships in our changing environment.

For the festival, the artist partnership Collins & Goto will work with colleagues in the Art Space and Nature MFA programme, using the Tent Gallery as a base of operations and performance to explore the actual rate and flow of CO2 in the environment in Edinburgh. This project asks the question If humans produce gas in cities and there are no trees around to breathe it, does anyone care?

The artists will approach the problem as one of hot air (sourced through indoor gallery goers, performers and the politicians at Scottish Parliament) and hot smoking air from cars, taxis and buses in the city.

Supported by Creative Carbon Scotland, ecoartscotland and Edinburgh College of Art, University of Edinburgh.

Mon—Fri, 12—5pm or by appointment

Free admission

Edinburgh College of Art: Tent Gallery

Evolution House

78 Westport, EH1 2LE

0131 651 5800

www.ed.ac.uk/schools-departments/edinburgh-college-art

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