Een van Londens gekende maar toch vrij obscure geschiedenissen betreft het feit dat in de periode tussen de vroege jaren 1800 tot de jaren 1950, ruim 250.000 Londenaren uit de arbeidersklasse - vooral vrouwen en kinderen - uit het East End vertrokken om de late zomerweken op het platteland in Kent door te brengen. Wat in de volkstaal omschreven werd als 'to go picking', cre

TheParallelShow is een initiatief van Frans van Lent en het Unnoticed Art Festival. TheParallelShow is een serie experimentele samenwerkingen tussen kunstenaars werkzaam op het gebied van de performance kunst. De 10 shows vonden onverwacht plaats in en rondom publieke tentoonstellingen in kunstinstellingen in Europa en de Verenigde Staten. TheParallelShows werden nooit aangekondigd, er werden geen uitnodigingen verstuurd en TheParallelShow liet nooit fysieke sporen achter.

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Cool Pastoral Splendor is the first Center Pivot publication the Last Chance Press of M12 Studio. It is published as a special limited edition, in a print run of 250 copies. Co-publishers: M12 Collective and the Last Chance Press.Through interdisciplinary approaches, this series explores and connects the changing realities of rural landscapes and communities around the world."Cool Pastoral Splendor includes a selection of pictures from Richard Saxton's Rural Research Archive and accompanying ...

'This Road Leads to Nowhere: Pierre Punk' brings together archives and reflections from a music scene that flourished in small-town South Dakota from the early 90's through 2010. Merging the tradition of DIY punk publications and regional travel guides, the book sings an unsung hymn of American underground culture. This Road Leads to Nowhere includes writings and images from Pierre community members, musicians who traveled through and played in the town, and kindred spirits from similar scene...

RAABJERG by Danish artist Rune Peitersen (1971) explores the changing landscape of northern Jutland (DK) from the last Ice Age until today.

During the 16th-19th centuries, climate change and human extraction of natural resources led to violent sand drift, which transformed the once fertile landscape into a barren wasteland. Different governments – from kings to elected parliaments – enacted laws to try to reverse it. After 200 years, they ‘succeeded’ and started reintroducing plants i...

"Stitch Your Brain" is a long-term study into the intelligence of the hand by artist and former medical doctor Monika Auch. The book reflects the results of the empirical study Auch worked on for the past decade about the importance of creating with your hands in our digital age and the effects of slow creation on neuro cognitive learning, health, and well-being.

The detailed images of a collection of 100+ stitched brains created by participants and their personal comments illustrate the infl...

Visual artist Diana Scherer is one of the pioneers in biotech art. At the core of her botanical installations and textiles lies a great curiosity about what neurobiologists call ‘the brain of plants’. Scherer studies plants and root systems and applies the intelligence of plants in her work. She employs a unique technique with which, using natural growth processes, she creates mesmerising and seemingly fragile tissues of plant roots with various structures. Scherer’s work is thought-pro...