Every spring, Transept—a practicing artist’s group within the Institute for Theology, Imagination, and the Arts (ITIA)—hosts an art exhibit, culminating in an evening of performances and readings. The 2024 exhibition, (a)void, opens this week in St Andrews. Leading up to…
Every spring, Transept—a practicing artist’s group within the Institute for Theology, Imagination, and the Arts (ITIA)—hosts an art exhibit, culminating in an evening of performances and readings. In this article, artist Janet McKenzie reflects on the theme and her work…
My formative experiences in music revolved extensively around choral music. Despite starting piano lessons at age seven, I never really found the impetus of practicing alone. It was however, in context of singing with other people, that I found a…
The discipline of theology has been no stranger to philosophy. Some consider them uneasy bedfellows, but many within theological disciplines have engaged deeply and excitedly with philosophical thought. Transpositions is now accepting submissions for a series exploring the relationship between philosophy…
Iwant to begin by expressing my gratitude for the opportunity Transpositions is graciously affording myself and others to reflect on Gathering Surface, the recent land art installation from my friend and colleague Dan Drage, viewable at the St. Andrews Botanical Gardens…
Offered through interwoven poetry, prose, and visual images, this response reflects on the experience of Dan Drage’s artist-led walk through his exhibition, Gathering Surface, at the St Andrews Botanic Garden on 7 September 2023. This response documents an embodied, and…
In Gathering Surface, artist Dan Drage offers us a complex series of artworks, and also an engagement with the nature of the artwork and, critically, the role of the artist. Gathering Surface, then, is simultaneously research on (or better: into) soil,…
Of the many questions Dan Drage evokes in Gathering Surface, the relationship between human productivity and nature occupies a privileged place. Each of the types of work—“pit and mounds,” “clusters,” and “sleeping fir”—speaks to some imaginable boundary between artifacts and their…
Kicking off our series on his installation Gathering Surface, artist Dan Drage discusses some themes guiding his work, and offers insights into how we can also view these pieces. The installation has been housed in St Andrews Botanic Garden since June 2023 and…