Air, Sea and Soil: WRITING INTO PLACE 2023

AIR, SEA AND SOIL is The Museum of Loss and Renewal’s Group Residency programme that takes place in Scotland’s Orkney Islands and is a partnership with the Pier Arts Centre, Stromness.

WRITING INTO PLACE was situated in the remarkable landscape, environment and community of the Orkney Islands, in Scotland. It was devised by Tracy Mackenna, Curator, The Museum of Loss and Renewal and was lead by Tracy and invited partner Emily Orley, artist, researcher and educator. Between us we activate diverse skills and expertise when we employ text, language, writing, publishing and performative modes of working to investigate place(making), (un)belonging, memory, (personal)narratives and imaginary futures.place in Scotland’s Orkney Islands and is a partnership with the Pier Arts Centre, Stromness.

The aim of the residency was to develop ‘writing’ and approaches to ‘writing’ that are experimental, inventive in their form, and that respond to place, in a specific environment. Creating a new international network was made possible by bringing together residents from a range of countries and practice and research areas, and this publication is the celebration of that new community.

The 2024 publication WRITING INTO PLACE was developed from the 2023 Group Residency.

Writing into Place
A co-publication by The Museum of Loss and Renewal Publishing & PUBLICAR

Contributions / pages
Cella, Rosie Cunningham, Jean Shields Fleming, Lauren Kayes, Anna Tallach Kennedy, Giovanna MacKenna, Polly Poupore, Priscilla Poupore, Alison Scott, Antonia Thomas, Rebecca Ford, Emily Orley, Tracy Mackenna, Fernanda Aránguiz M..

Edited by
Tracy Mackenna & Fernanda Aránguiz M.

Designed and programmed by
Fernanda Aránguiz M.

Photography by
Esméemilja Mackenna

Navigation drawings by
Tracy Mackenna