On Watery Borders, Borderlands, and Tania Kovats’ <i>Head to Mouth</i>

With a relational view of landscapes and natural environments as continuously “in process” and formed from the over-layered and interdependent connections between nature and culture, the human and the non-human, this paper considers some recent practices by artists who have worke...

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Main Author:	Ysanne Holt
Format:	Article
Language:	English
Published:	MDPI AG 2019-08-01
Series:	Arts
Subjects:	borderlands ecological thinking River Tweed Tania Kovats contemporary arts and environment water Anglo-Scottish borders
Online Access:	https://www.mdpi.com/2076-0752/8/3/104

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description	With a relational view of landscapes and natural environments as continuously “in process” and formed from the over-layered and interdependent connections between nature and culture, the human and the non-human, this paper considers some recent practices by artists who have worked in the largely rural border region of Northern England and Southern Scotland. Expanding from a focus on the artist Tania Kovats’ 2019 Berwick Visual Arts exhibition, <i>Head to Mouth</i>, and a wider frame of non-anthropocentric ecological thought in relation to the visual arts, it explores the significance of diverse creative engagements with water, here with the River Tweed, and their potential value in a current cross-border context of social and environmental challenges and concern.
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On Watery Borders, Borderlands, and Tania Kovats’ <i>Head to Mouth</i>

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