Kulturpark Plänterwal an abandoned amusement park in east Berlin constructed by the GDR in 1969 is been explored as a site for a public art installation by the Kulturpark art group. The collaborative project sets out to re-ignite an interest in the park taking into consideration its aesthetics and historical context.

What is interesting in this project is how abandonment due to financial collapse has returned the theme park to a playground within a more defined natural environment. The overrunning of plants and tree's suggests a derelict space, but the artists aim to use this to form an interesting dialogue between the visitors who left the park 10 years ago, the ecology that has emerged due to this and then their meeting together when it is presented as a public art space.

' Pet Rocks '

Friz Hoffmann series of photographs depicting giant rocks deposited by retreating glaciers forms a national survey which is introspective of these boulders existence in city and suburbia. These erratic's found all over the USA have been imbued with the narrative of 'pet rocks' by Hoffmann. The position the artist presents the rocks in is a documentation of their passive interaction with the ever changing urban and natural landscapes as well as the 'modern social' human interaction and perhaps therefore their inevitable domestication into society.

Link to 'The Clockwork Forest" video

http://www.designboom.com/weblog/cat/10/view/19767/design-indaba-2012-the-clockwork-forest-by-greyworld.html

Andrew Shoben founder of art collective greyworld has instigated a work in collaboration with other artists around the globe to create "The Clockwork Forest" in Grizedale, Cumbria . By twisting a turn key affixed to various trees music emerges echoing the forests natural ambiance. The work does not harm the tree's as it was commissioned by the Forestry commission, England. Their goal was to increase the interaction between the park goer and the natural environment.It is interesting that in the present economic climate, the national forestry commission is able to fund such art projects. Being aware of the flow and exchange of funding between different commissions is an important objective for emerging artists.

link to trail view

http://naturevalleytrailview.com/

Google's road view takes on an off road expansion in nature valley trail view. A group of hikers lead a photography expedition through the Rocky Mountains, Yellowstone and the Grand Canyon. Documenting this natural terrain onto computer interfaces in such a visually descriptive and comprehensive manner presents idea's of extending the virtual world already available to us.

An inter-webbing enterprise towards aerial safety, spiders in the New South Wales town of Waga-Waga escaping flood-waters by emerging out of the landscape. The images are powerful and express the complex ingenuity of this kind of architectural practice. Similar events occurred in recent floods along Pakistan river systems. The webs allegorically describe a narrative of survival where all types of spider can be seen constructing the arc.

The project Biografi by Bernardo Vercelli uses pencil to follow the path of different insects on paper. Evident from different insects is the individual type of movement and exploration on the page. Somehow I felt this concept effective and strong in being reflective of our own confused microcosm as we each discover the world in a unique way.

New Blog

http://www.a-n.co.uk/degrees_unedited/projects/single/2051406