5 June — “PEAK OIL”
11 June — “AN INCONVENIENT TRUTH”
5 June — “PEAK OIL”
IN DUTCH MILL (7 Queens Road Aberdeen AB15 4NR) AT 6pm for 6.30pm (ending at 8pm). – Douglas Low (Director. The Oil Depletion Analysis Centre (ODAC)) will be speaking about Peak Oil – the forthcoming decline in fossil fuel production and [...]
While this site is quietly awaiting a major overhaul we also do read the papers … here is a link to a quite interesting article in the US-focused “EnergyPulse” entitled Lost Generation (an Energy Manifesto).
Variant 28 Spring 2007 – the Oil issue
…the free, independent, arts magazine. In-depth coverage
in the context of broader social, political & cultural issues.
text : full issue
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Front cover
Texan Oilfield, USA, 1922.
Image courtesy of the Houston Public Library photo archive
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Content
* Over a Barrel — Editorial
The writers for this issue devoted to oil take [...]
We’re well into 2007 — and everywhere interesting projects and initiatives on Oil, the Industry and its impact are well under way, or even completed, not to count the ones on climate change etc. etc. etc.
There are a few I’d like to mention here:
Over a barrel is the launch of Variant magazine’s special issue devoted [...]
The full documentation of the Oil and the City (Pilot 2005) is now available online.
Until 26th February 2006, the Black Sea Files by Ursula Biemann are on exhibition at KW Berlin as part of B-Zone. In this project, Ursula explores the new pipeline connecting Baku, the world’s oldest oil capital on the Caspian shore, with the Mediterreanean.
The line connecting the resource fringe with the terminal of the [...]
“A North-east artist is going back to nature in an attempt to show how society has come to rely on oil.” the Press and Journal reports today: “Duncan Hart will leave his Aberdeen flat today and walk to Bridgefoot Organic Farm, near Newmachar, to setup home for the next three or four days.”
And indeed Duncan [...]
The team of artists visited Aberdeen Maritime Museum to study the venue of the upcoming exhibition. The opening of the exhibition is on Friday, 21 Octover 2005, 6:30pm-8pm. Come along!
Dunbar Street Community Hall, Old Aberdeen
To kick start the pilot project “Oil and the City” urbanNovember holds an open space event on 19 March 2005 at Dunbar Street Community Hall, Old Aberdeen. We want to find out: “What is the relationship of Oil and the City?”
The event includes 3 rounds:
Round 1 – The Colour [...]
Oil and the City researches the impact the oil boom had on Aberdeen’s social, political, economical and cultural structure.