Myths meets Maths meets Gender Socio-Physicist and comparative mythologist, Professor Ralph Kenna releases news of a new arts competition and participatory research project, Ongoing from May 1st, (Bealtaine) to October 31st (Samhain) 2022 Both aspects of the project are open to everybody, anywhere,sparked or inspired by local folklore, or or the magnificent female characters ,…
Sharing Landcape Memories
During my conversation with Clare Millege, we both referred to some of our landscape memory moments. Clare grew up close to Wollumbin, in Northern New South Wales. (still sometimes known by the name given to it in 1770 by James Cook, Mount Warning). I refered to one of my all time, favourite places on the…
A Well at The Bottom of the Sea
Clare Milledge’s work re-examines contemporary environments with a focus on our engagement with ecology through art, in particular through the use of the historical figure of the artist-shaman. Working with fieldwork as her primary methodology she collects, re-organises, transforms and re-presents recordings, information and material gathered on ecological surveys and site visits. Her research output…
A Conversation with Clare Millege
Join Chris and Clare, an artist from Sydney Australia, and an eloquant exponant of the art of landscape stories, as they discuss, art, ecology, the Australian landscape and, especially, Clare’s recent installation Imbás: a well at the bottom of the sea at the Sydney Biennale 22. Take the opportunity to explore the installation as Clare…
Celebrating Women’s Stories in Irish Mythology – A ‘Starter’ story for Children
An International Competition Celebrating Women in Irish Mythology A Story to get you started. Find out more about the competion and how schools can get involved. A fully interactive Schools’ package is in preparation. It will take another week or two to complete. By the close of May, for Irish schools at least, it is…
Professor Ralph Kenna launches the competition and participatory research project on Myth and Gender
Celebrating Women in Irish Mythology €10,000 in prizes Including up to €3,000 for schools Any form of visual, musical, or literary art We are launching an international arts competition in parallel with a participatory research project to re-ignite awareness of inspirational female figures from Irish mythology and folklore who have all too often been forgotten,…
A Conversation with Professor Ralph Kenna
The second of a new Series of Story Archaeology podcast conversations on mythology and its ‘Stories in the Landscape’. Join Chris and Ralph, professor of Statistical Physics and enthusiastic comaparative mythologist, as they discuss the remakable possibilities of applying socio-physics to epic myth cycles;take an appreciative retrospective look at the International ‘Arts for Sinann’ competition…
A Conversation with Daniel Curley
The first of a new Series of Story Archaeology podcast conversations on mythology and its ‘Stories in the Landscape’. Join Chris and Daniel, archaeologist and manager of the Rathcroghan Visitor Centre as they discuss Cruachan Aí,the royal home of of Medb, Ailill and the Finnbhennach, the white bull of Connacht. Yet,this famous setting forms only…
The ‘New Look’ Story Archaeology site .
Story Archaeology news : March2022 For now, I have simplified The Top Navigation but you can also use the links below If you would like to listen to the new ‘Stories in the Landscape’ podcast conversations Follow this link to the new ‘People and Places’ posts The first new podcast post will be a conversation…
An Unexpected Journey part 2: Are we nearly there yet?
I wrote the article, An Unexpected Journey – There and Back Again, all of eighteen months ago, back in May, 2020. This, as everyone other than my friends and family in Queensland will remember, was during the first round of Covid lockdowns. In this article I compared the feeling of being flung into an unpredictable…