'At HICA - past, present and future coalesce into a kind of concentrated 'presentness' in the viewer's mind. Being brought into the 'inviolate circle' at the Dalcromnie space, rather than feeling distant from centres of production, display and consumption of art, instead we feel present in mind.'
- Colin Glen, essay for the exhibition catalogue of You'll have had your tea?
Our Mt Unohana and vale of Kurikara is the Great Glen
Our Kasho, a merchant from Osaka, is all the visiting artists and curators here for the Great Glen Air show
Our thatched hermitage is H-I-C-A, Loch Ruthven
Our eggplants cucumbers is aubergines and potatoes in the Lodge, and kedgeree in the marquee
Our unrelentingly / autumn’s wind is unrelentingly / autumn’s rain
43 Loch Ruthven
Ken Cockburn, 2010
Bashoing Loch Ruthven
Crossed by the old lattice windmill on Beinn Dubhcharaidh and vale of Torness, in Ruthven on 18th of September. Adam Dant, an artist from London, in town, along with the folks from the Arts Catalyst. Stayed at HICA again. One Louise K. Wilson, known for her devotion to the art, of some repute too in the world outside, unexpectedly has a wee baby, Poppy, quite young, and the family fresh in from a show in Dortmund.
cheap airflights we lament the cost
On being invited to Dalcrombie:
the deftness of Eilidh fingers and thumbs busy with the year’s jams
And on the road this poem
grey on grey the pelting rain unrelenting in the autumn wind
(AF)
HICA
43 HICA
Eilidh Crumlish, 2009
43 HICA: Jeremy Millar Exhibition
Eilidh Crumlish, 2010
43 tea-moons
Alec Finlay, HICA, 2009
43 tea-moon
'This / Is / timE / Given / flavoUr / tAste / aNd / liquiditY / In / proportioN', (tieguanyin), AF
Alec Finlay, HICA, 2009
One of the things that makes HICA special is that there art is woven into Geoff & Eilidh’s daily life – for all that its rubric is the exploration of Concrete Art, experientially all of us have made the long journey to take in that view over the loch, of mountains beyond mountains. Much of the content of HICA is the opportunity to share their wonderful hospitality, see how the chickens are doing and sample that year’s fruit wine. It adds up.
43 Barno by the fire, HICA
Caroline Smith, 2009
Coming back there is also another chance to see the rowan, in which nestles a ‘Home to a king’ nest-box, bearing the text: ‘Narrow and crimson (5)’ – a poem in which the rowan hides its name, and to which I add a new verse.
43 Nest-box
Ken Cockburn, 2010
43 nest-box
Eilidh Crumlish, 2009
43 hokku-label
(‘fingers and berries / beckon the birds’, AF)
Ken Cockburn, 2010
Looking back to the house, through the rain, I spot a domestic moon, like those I found at Meg’s house.
43 HICA moon
Ken Cockburn, 2010
(AF)
The Great Glen Airshow
43 The Lodge
Ken Cockburn, 2010
Lots of the airshowers are staying in the lodge, just up the road from H-I-C-A ‘proper’. We’re a couple of miles down the road, and as we arrive on Friday just before dusk yellow flares are being ignited, trial runs for tomorrow, but the wind direction shifts and smoke blows towards us. Sulphur, says Jo. Over the meal, Adam Dant describes the ‘blank’ library he’s made for Outlandia, names to be added to the spines on Sunday.
43 The Great Glen Artists Airshow 2010
Ken Cockburn, 2010
43 Rowanberries & Eck
43 Rowanberries & Eck
Ken Cockburn, 2010
Saturday’s rain that's forecast to clear later does no such thing. At lunchtime, listening in the car to Stuart and Tam on the radio we think of Morven. Emerge to H-I-C-A’s rain, vegetable garden, marquee, gallery. Susanne gives me a Malevich kite to fly, the one with the black circle, but in the windless rain it doesn’t get off the ground. Further uphill the wind turbine’s turning so there must be wind there, and once there the kite pulls away and flies a treat.
43 flies a treat
Ken Cockburn, 2010
43 ('wind unspools malevich black into cloud grey', KC)
Ken Cockburn, 2010
43 Susanne Nørregård Nielsen, Malevich Kite
Alec Finlay, 2010
A group has gathered round the turbine for Eck's reading scheduled for 4pm. But problems with the flares mean Rob’s said 4.45. With damp solidarity we disagree, and Eck reads twice, now and with the flares, though most folk stay for both readings. An umbrellaed Murdo Macdonald is among the crowd, and with typical unfussy erudition expands our partial knowledge of Clach Ossian.
43 audio, Basho reading at the Airshow
Stanley Productions, 2010
43 Eck's Skying performance
43 ('wind unspools malevich black into cloud grey', KC)
Ken Cockburn, 2010
43 Susanne Nørregård Nielsen, Malevich Kite
Alec Finlay, 2010
A group has gathered round the turbine for Eck's reading scheduled for 4pm. But problems with the flares mean Rob’s said 4.45. With damp solidarity we disagree, and Eck reads twice, now and with the flares, though most folk stay for both readings. An umbrellaed Murdo Macdonald is among the crowd, and with typical unfussy erudition expands our partial knowledge of Clach Ossian.
43 audio, Basho reading at the Airshow
Stanley Productions, 2010
43 Eck's Skying performance
Ken Cockburn, 2010
43 Basho reading
Sue Pirnie, 2010
We libate and pass round Laphroig one way, Red Oolong the other; people are either abstemious or sip very daintily as the whisky lasts the circle.
These are some of the sentences Basho read at the Airshow, under the windmill, in the pelting rain.
an age of carbon offsets shouldn’t consider itself superior to the age of papal indulgences
someday each island will be undersail with a turbine of its own
the blade has to fall before it can rise
windmill turbines are frowned upon because they can be seen and heard
being seen a windmill can neither hide nor lie
there is no energy more witheld from sight than the atom of nuclear power
with wind energy fuel returns from its stint in the fiery underworld
community-owned turbines nationalise land and power at one and the same time
neocapitalist wind-farm V wind eco-village
being stuck in the mud we’ll fry in the sun
Alec Finlay, for The Great Glen Airshow
September, 2010
43 yellow flares
Ken Cockburn, 2010
Yellow flares burst and drift on the hillside. The kids are initially curious, then rather lose interest.
43 Basho reading
Ken Cockburn, 2010
43 Basho reading
Sue Pirnie, 2010
These are some of the sentences Basho read at the Airshow, under the windmill, in the pelting rain.
an age of carbon offsets shouldn’t consider itself superior to the age of papal indulgences
someday each island will be undersail with a turbine of its own
the blade has to fall before it can rise
windmill turbines are frowned upon because they can be seen and heard
being seen a windmill can neither hide nor lie
there is no energy more witheld from sight than the atom of nuclear power
with wind energy fuel returns from its stint in the fiery underworld
community-owned turbines nationalise land and power at one and the same time
neocapitalist wind-farm V wind eco-village
being stuck in the mud we’ll fry in the sun
Alec Finlay, for The Great Glen Airshow
September, 2010
43 yellow flares
Ken Cockburn, 2010
Yellow flares burst and drift on the hillside. The kids are initially curious, then rather lose interest.
why's it yellow smoke?
because they're making a picture
in the sky
the kids' game
who's-the-tallest
is really
who-can-climb-on- the-biggest-rock
The woodland installations offer Brazilian birdsong, and partial glimpses of the listeners. Between Premonition and Knowledge is a work by Bruce and Jo at London Fieldworks, who also concieved Outlandia.
43 woodland screen
Alec Finlay, 2010
43 film-spotters
Alec Finlay, 2010
I find a lost padlock on the wall by the rowan tree, pick fourteen rowanberries for Isobel and after a three-verse arrangement develop a freeform sonnet in a roadside puddle.
43 lost padlock
Ken Cockburn, 2010
43 fourteen rowanberries
Ken Cockburn, 2010
43 fourteen rowanberries
Ken Cockburn, 2010
Coda: HICA
On Sunday morning the bus arrives at the lodge for the journey to Outlandia. We’re heading north, but offer our Outlandia poems and Basho adaptation. Once Rob’s rounded up his unruly troupe, Eck presents his Outlandia letterbox to Bruce and there’s an audible ‘ahhh’. I’ve never read on a coach before but, seated, unruly becomes attentive.
43 coach insignia
Ken Cockburn, 2010
43 reading on the coach
, Youtube
Back at H-I-C-A, Eilidh’s saving yesterday’s unread Guardian for a still-deferred quiet moment. Just before we leave Basho corners Geoff, cornflakes in hand, for a chat about how he feels the weekend has gone
43 audio: Geoff's chat
Alec Finlay, 2010
On Sunday morning the bus arrives at the lodge for the journey to Outlandia. We’re heading north, but offer our Outlandia poems and Basho adaptation. Once Rob’s rounded up his unruly troupe, Eck presents his Outlandia letterbox to Bruce and there’s an audible ‘ahhh’. I’ve never read on a coach before but, seated, unruly becomes attentive.
43 coach insignia
Ken Cockburn, 2010
43 reading on the coach
, Youtube
Back at H-I-C-A, Eilidh’s saving yesterday’s unread Guardian for a still-deferred quiet moment. Just before we leave Basho corners Geoff, cornflakes in hand, for a chat about how he feels the weekend has gone
43 audio: Geoff's chat
Alec Finlay, 2010
Coda: Hawthorns
Human error, replies Alex McLeish, when asked on MOTD what went wrong that afternoon at the Hawthorns. Shouldn’t more football grounds should be named after flora or fauna? I call to mind Vetch Field, Fir Park, Firhill, Almondvale, White Hart Lane; outlooks too, Bayview and Ochilview. Inverness could do better than Tulloch Caledonian Stadium… Firthview, Gorsebank, The Beeches, though there’s a fine line between poeticisms and suburban tweeness. Too few nadikoro to warrant a poetic journey…
Coda : HICA Renga
Click image to enlarge:
renga word-map, HICA, dalcrombie, Loch Ruthven
Alec Finlay
From Four Exhibitions October 2008 - August 2009, Small Potatoes Publishing, 2009
Coda : creag dhearg
note on the poem
top lines = names of hills close by HICA; the bottom lines = sheep diseases.
all are also names of colours.
Gaelic was supplanted by lowland shepherds & their sheep & their language.
sheep fell foul of local conditions. Many years since Gaelic was spoken round HICA; sheep are also becoming fewer & fewer.
intimations
The Arts Catalyst commissions contemporary art that is experimentally and critically engaged with science and society. It helps to produce provocative, playful and risk-taking art by promoting understanding and cooperation between people from different disciplines and cultures. Through exhibitions, events, workshops, residencies, conferences, publishing, research, and participatory projects, new and interesting artists are encouraged to explore, generate and share ideas on a broader platform.
The Great Glen Artists Airshow runs every three years. 2010 was its third outing. The show explores and presents works on the them of sky, air, movement.
H-I-C-A (the Highland Institute for Contemporary Art) is an artist-run space, located near Inverness in the North of Scotland. HICA, as an experimental art-space, aims - among other thigns - to re-examine and re-appraise the term Concrete Art.
London Fieldworks was formed in 2000 by artists Bruce Gilchrist and Jo Joelson as an umbrella organisation for creative research and collaboration at the art, science and technology intersection. Typically, their projects engage with the notion of ecology as a complex inter-working of social, natural, and technological worlds. Between Premonition and Knowledge is a film by Bruce Gilchrist and Jo Joelson.
Louise K. Wilson graduated with an MFA (Studio Arts) from Concordia University, Montreal in 1996 and am currently a Doctoral student in Visual Art at the University of DerbyMy artwork takes the form of installations, sound pieces, live events and videos
Adam Dant creates dense and elaborate drawings, thoroughly researched and often possessed of a dysfunctional, semicircular logic. Mishap and folly proliferate his work. Museums are common subjects, as are maps and complicated joke
Gair Dunlop is an artist increasingly involved in site-specific collaborative projects, currently working in Dounreay Experimental Nuclear Reactor site on a multiscreen installation linking archive and present condition.
Susanne Nørregård Nielsen originally trained as a painter, and over recent years has used photography increasingly to explore and explicate her ideas. Her mediums are wide-ranging - gardens, dresses, kites - often to reconstitute seminal modernist artists in new lights.
Gerry Loose works in horticulture, agriculture, and poetry. His most recent publication is that person himself, a book-length poem (Shearsman, 2009). You can follow Gerry's blog, Saari seasons.
Human error, replies Alex McLeish, when asked on MOTD what went wrong that afternoon at the Hawthorns. Shouldn’t more football grounds should be named after flora or fauna? I call to mind Vetch Field, Fir Park, Firhill, Almondvale, White Hart Lane; outlooks too, Bayview and Ochilview. Inverness could do better than Tulloch Caledonian Stadium… Firthview, Gorsebank, The Beeches, though there’s a fine line between poeticisms and suburban tweeness. Too few nadikoro to warrant a poetic journey…
Coda : HICA Renga
Click image to enlarge:
renga word-map, HICA, dalcrombie, Loch Ruthven
Alec Finlay
From Four Exhibitions October 2008 - August 2009, Small Potatoes Publishing, 2009
Coda : creag dhearg
CREAG DHEARG
cas dhearg
*
BEINN BUIDHE
an galar buidhe
*
STAC GORM
ceithreamh gorm
*
CREAG DHUBH
grùthan dubh
*
CREAG DHEARG
cas dhearg
*
BEINN BUIDHE
an galar buidhe
*
STAC GORM
ceithreamh gorm
*
CREAG DHUBH
grùthan dubh
(creag dhearg, Gerry Loose)
cas dhearg
*
BEINN BUIDHE
an galar buidhe
*
STAC GORM
ceithreamh gorm
*
CREAG DHUBH
grùthan dubh
*
CREAG DHEARG
cas dhearg
*
BEINN BUIDHE
an galar buidhe
*
STAC GORM
ceithreamh gorm
*
CREAG DHUBH
grùthan dubh
(creag dhearg, Gerry Loose)
note on the poem
top lines = names of hills close by HICA; the bottom lines = sheep diseases.
all are also names of colours.
Gaelic was supplanted by lowland shepherds & their sheep & their language.
sheep fell foul of local conditions. Many years since Gaelic was spoken round HICA; sheep are also becoming fewer & fewer.
intimations
The Arts Catalyst commissions contemporary art that is experimentally and critically engaged with science and society. It helps to produce provocative, playful and risk-taking art by promoting understanding and cooperation between people from different disciplines and cultures. Through exhibitions, events, workshops, residencies, conferences, publishing, research, and participatory projects, new and interesting artists are encouraged to explore, generate and share ideas on a broader platform.
The Great Glen Artists Airshow runs every three years. 2010 was its third outing. The show explores and presents works on the them of sky, air, movement.
H-I-C-A (the Highland Institute for Contemporary Art) is an artist-run space, located near Inverness in the North of Scotland. HICA, as an experimental art-space, aims - among other thigns - to re-examine and re-appraise the term Concrete Art.
London Fieldworks was formed in 2000 by artists Bruce Gilchrist and Jo Joelson as an umbrella organisation for creative research and collaboration at the art, science and technology intersection. Typically, their projects engage with the notion of ecology as a complex inter-working of social, natural, and technological worlds. Between Premonition and Knowledge is a film by Bruce Gilchrist and Jo Joelson.
Louise K. Wilson graduated with an MFA (Studio Arts) from Concordia University, Montreal in 1996 and am currently a Doctoral student in Visual Art at the University of DerbyMy artwork takes the form of installations, sound pieces, live events and videos
Adam Dant creates dense and elaborate drawings, thoroughly researched and often possessed of a dysfunctional, semicircular logic. Mishap and folly proliferate his work. Museums are common subjects, as are maps and complicated joke
Gair Dunlop is an artist increasingly involved in site-specific collaborative projects, currently working in Dounreay Experimental Nuclear Reactor site on a multiscreen installation linking archive and present condition.
Susanne Nørregård Nielsen originally trained as a painter, and over recent years has used photography increasingly to explore and explicate her ideas. Her mediums are wide-ranging - gardens, dresses, kites - often to reconstitute seminal modernist artists in new lights.
Gerry Loose works in horticulture, agriculture, and poetry. His most recent publication is that person himself, a book-length poem (Shearsman, 2009). You can follow Gerry's blog, Saari seasons.
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