The BreadBoy of Herculaneum Exhibition

Explore the impact of climate change through this international photographic project initiated in 2019 in rural communities in Sweden and Italy. The exhibited work, primarily developed over an extended period in the rural regions of Molise (Italy) and Småland (Sweden), is now expanding its focus to include projects in Argyll (Scotland).

Join us for Sunday talks (1-2 pm) and daily drop-in climate conversations (1-3 pm for the first two weeks, organized thereafter based on demand). Conversations follow SCAN's climate facilitation structure, inspired by the International Transition movement.

Topics include:

Food Growing Data Collection for People and the Planet Circular Economy Worker's Co-op Development Community-owned Renewable Energy Presentation on the climate activist movement, by Swedish representatives from Mothers Rebellion Biochar and Carbon Literacy Engage with local and non-local speakers as we discuss crisis awareness, collective and individual transitions, and community initiatives in Dunoon and Cowal.

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In Italy and Sweden, we have collaborated or been in conversations with Casa Pleadi, Bergkvara Konsthall , Torsås Municipality, Ödevata Gårdshotel, Diö Konsthall, and Svart Mylla. In Dunoon, our partners include Grow Food Dunoon, [Bullwood Nature Trail]3, and Dunoon Burgh Hall.

The work is commissioned by Cultural Documents with the financial support of Creative Scotland.

Dunoon 2023/24 (ongoing)

During the fall of 2023, we are producing an exhibition with the BreadBoy work which will open at Dunoon Burg Hall in January 2024. Alongside the exhibition, we will run workshops in the form of climate facilitation talks which we will host in the exhibition space together with community groups. The exhibition will also include an archive with references and information of other artwork that has been made and is being made about climate work beginning with Joseph Beuys and Richard Demarco’s Oil conference in Edinburgh in 1974. We will also make a reading list which will be put on display and made available at Dunoon local library. This project has been developed in three rural or small communities and it’s important to us to connect these communities because we believe transition toward resilience is more likely to be achieved if there is knowledge and experience transfers between communities.

This project has been developed in three rural or small communities and it’s important to us to connect these communities because we believe transition toward resilience is more likely to be achieved if there is knowledge and experience transfers between communities. We have begun the conversations and collaborations with the community group’s Grow Food Dunoon and the Bullwood nature trail. Our conversations have manifested so far in a collaboration with Bullwork Nature Trail. This took place on Samhain in the form of a streamed performance and a ritual biochar fire together with Anna, Ella Tillema from Diö Konsthall, Svart Mylla, and Ödevata Gårdshotel, in Sweden. Italy and Sant’Agapito had technical problems and were unable to participate. The event is a pilot to celebrate Beltain/Walpurgis and other fire traditions and celebrations together over long distances. Through this, we intend to explore the political power of connecting communities and carbon sequestering around celebrations that have a relationship to the turning of time and seasons.