The Island: A Lament

24 November at 16:00–17:00 UTCEvelyn Street, Nottingham, NG1 1, United KingdomJoin us at dusk on Friday to lament the...

Wasted Common: a reading/viewing/listening list

There were a lot of inspirations for Wasted Common, and I drew on a lot of peoples' research and ideas in making the...

Wasted Common on Resonance FM, June 24th/25th

  At 8pm on Tuesday June 24th (and repeated the following morning at 9am) Resonance FM will be broadcasting 'Wasted...

Voices in a Field

Commissioned by Wasteland Twinning Nottingham, Matthias Kispert's Voices in a Field is a collective vocal work...

The Wasteland Sculpture Park: A book project by Beth Bramich

Text by Beth Bramich. The Wasteland Sculpture Park A Collection of Proposals for Derelict Sites The Wasteland...

Recreation Ground Exhibition: An Overview

Recreation Ground was an exhibition curated by Wasteland Twinning Nottingham. It ran at Attic Gallery, One Thoresby...

Desire lines symposium, 17 October

Desire lines: Art, Edgelands and the Urban Wilds Thursday 17th October, 2013 10am – 4.30pm (registration...

Voices in a Field - Participants Needed!

Wasteland Twinning Nottingham has commissioned composer and sound artist Matthias Kispert to write a vocal work to be...

HS2 = Future Wastelands?

As I've argued in recent posts, wastelands aren't simply made by accident - they're produced by political economy. This...

Creativity, Capital and Commons in the Contemporary City, Part 2

This is the second part of a (slightly) edited version of a talk I gave to the Centre for the Study of Social and Global...

Creativity Capital and Commons in the Contemporary City: The Eastside Island, Pt. 1

This is a very slightly edited version of a talk I gave to the Centre for the Study of Social and Global Justice's...

Making Place

A guest text by Richard Houguez on the first of Nottingham's Wasteland Conversations: Making Place On reflection,...

Artist's Impression: Wasteland Twinning Nottingham Needs You!

Wasteland Twinning Nottingham NeedsYou! On Saturday 27th April, Wasteland Twinning Nottingham is producing an...

Wasteland Conversations Audio now online

The Wasteland Conversations took place in February and March 2013 at Nottingham Contemporary, exploring themes that are...

Wasteland Twinning Nottingham: Micro-Commissions Call

Wasteland Twinning Nottingham is pleased to announce an open call for submissions for two works that will be...

Isola Art Center: Fight Specific Art

Wednesday 20 February, 3.00 - 5.00pm We have invited curator and researcher Aria Spinelli to share the story of I...

Wasteland Conversations, Nottingham Contemporary

Continuing our relationship with Nottingham Contemporary and their public programme we were invited to co-curate and...

The Eastside Island: Creativity, Capital and Commons in the Contemporary City

On Monday I'll be talking at the Centre for the Study of Social and Global Justice's seminar series on 'Creativity,...

Leftlion interviews Matt Trivett from WT Nottingham

'When the Boot’s factories were demolished the City Council were going through the land reclamation process and they...

Nottingham Wasteland Twinning Early 2013 Programme

Here in Nottingham we've got lots planned for the first quarter of 2013, including a series of public discussions at...

Twinning Agreement the Island & Ledok Timoho - culture360.org article

Article by Ferdiansyah Thajib, KUNCI Cultural Studies Centre and Rebecca Beinart, Wasteland Twinning Nottingham...

Regenerate Art at Nottingham Contemporary / 9 October 2012

Nottingham-Yogyakarta twinning ceremony 02/09/2012

You are invited to the Wasteland Twinning Ceremony between Ledok Timoho in Yogyakarta, Indonesia and The Island in...

Surfacing - 'The Island'

As part of our public launch programme, Wasteland Twinning Nottingham commissioned band Surfacing (of whom, I should...

Presentation & discussion at Nottingham Contemporary,10th July 5-7pm

Join Wasteland Twinning Nottingham and Berlin on Tuesday 10th July, 5-7pm at Nottingham Contemporary, to reflect on...

Wasteland Twinning on BBC Radio Nottingham. listen here

Wasteland Twinning Nottingham Rounders and Berlin on BBC Radio Nottingham. listen here at the time 2:38 http://www...

SIGN UP- Nottingham Rounders Club, June 30, 13 – 17.00, Nottingham

Saturday 30 June 2012 1 - 5pm The Island As the Olympic Torch passes through Nottingham towards the Olympic...

Rounders Ready...

Wasteland Twinning Nottingham Public Launch

The Islanders present Launch of Wasteland Twinning Nottingham Saturday 19th May 2012 Featuring wasteland tours,...

Context Lectures: SITE /OFF-SITE /NON-SITE (Nottingham)

Wednesday 11 April, 10 – 12.00 Djanogly Lecture Theatre, Nottingham Trent University, UK Context Lectures: SITE...

Interview with local residents

A few weeks ago I interviewed Pete McGuire, who has lived and worked in the area for many years. He explains what...

Trading Camouflage for Camouflage

Today I began the process of producing a series of rounders bats (similar to a baseball bat) for a forthcoming research...

Tescopoly

Interview with local historian Chris Matthews on the recent plans for a Tesco Superstore on the Island Site, and the...

Stalking the Zone

A couple of months back I watched Andrei Tarkovsky's Stalker for the first time.  Returning to our site on the 22nd...

The Ghosts of Eastside

The Ghost of Eastside Yet To Come As we continue our investigations into the Wasteland's strange past we have news of...

A Strange Recording from 1959

Rebecca and I visited Nottingham City Library yesterday to conduct more research into the Island wasteland site. We...

Elderberry rob

I am interested in the idea of making produce from the wasteland: identifying plants on the the wasteland that can be...

Where the crow passes over...

In working out the crow hours (our chosen measurement of distance for the signpost) between our Wasteland and the other...

As the crow flies

Nottingham was the first stop for the Sign Prototype - a method by correspondence. All distances are marked in cr...

Sunset recording

We recorded five minutes of audio at sunset last night. Here's a short extract. [jwplayer mediaid="895"] To hear...

Weeds, Rhizomes and Cracks...

Rebecca's reflections on our visit to our wasteland site in Nottingham put me in mind of cracks and weeds: of spaes of...

Exploring the Island

Today I went to explore the Island with David, visiting parts of the site I had never been to before. The southern...