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Transit Arts was an itinerant organisation for the support of artists’ moving image, working through public screening programmes and experimental publishing between 2015 and 2025.
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︎︎︎DOWSER, notes on artists’ moving image in Scotland&#38;nbsp;(2020–2024)
	


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	Transit Arts was an itinerant organisation for the support of artists’ moving image, working through public screening programmes and experimental publishing between 2015 and 2025.


Transit Arts was founded by curator and writer Marcus Jack and supported the work of over seventy artists, filmmakers, performers and writers. Originally operating as a series of pop-up, outdoor projections, screened from the back of a transit van, the programme moved indoors in 2017, working with venues to present artist retrospectives and thematic screenings. Transit Arts events have featured film, video and performance by Forensic Architecture, Michelle Hannah, Taus Makhacheva, Lutz Mommartz, Yuri Pattison, Amie Siegal, Fern Silva, Deborah Stratman, Margaret Tait and Alia Syed amongst others. DOWSER was published on the Transit Arts imprint between 2020 and 2024 as a serial about artists’ moving image in Scotland, comprising essays, interviews and archival material from guest contributors.
Transit Arts’ programme developed with the support and cooperation of numerous galleries, cinemas, festivals, archives and estates, with partners having included Alchemy Film &#38;amp; Arts; ATLAS Arts; CCA Glasgow; Document Film Festival; Glasgow Film Theatre; Glasgow Short Film Festival; Goethe-Institut; The Pipe Factory; Radical Film Network; Scalarama; Scottish Contemporary Art Network; Southside Film Festival; and Tyneside Cinema.

Transit Arts was a member of Film Hub Scotland and the Radical Film Network.

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	Introducing DOWSER


July 2020
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	Simone Hutchinson:
Enfolding Each Other
July 2018
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	Soft Cells, Programme Notes


March 2018
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	Uncanny Loop: New Habitats, Programme Notes


August 2017
	
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	An interview with Lutz Mommartz
January 2017
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	Enfolding Each OtherSimone Hutchinson

If
ecology is an approach [rather than a discipline], it proceeds from questions
about viewing, subjects and objects.&#38;nbsp;[i]
[The]
irresistible attraction toward enfolding each other is the vital motor of
living and dying on earth.&#38;nbsp;[ii]



Ecology is best thought of as an approach
which attempts to understand a dynamic relationship rather than as a study of physical
structures [iii]. Anthropocene is ecology’s name for the current geological Era, but the word also
encapsulates the single most important relation of our time: that between humankind
and the environment. For that reason, essays on the Anthropocene may be found in
disciplines far from ecology, such as art and literature. A Marxist
articulation of the Anthropocene claims that ‘androgenic climate change is an
unintended consequence of collective human labour’ [iv]. This statement implicates our socio-economic history in the degradation of the
environment and emphasises the destructive potential of the economy when its
power is prioritised over other socio-political concerns.


&#60;img width="1200" height="680" width_o="1200" height_o="680" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/c13104df745c0914ef08efc9a6e51142ae706766f74ede67afd1f2b93b0ba7a7/untitled_4.png" data-mid="148587470" border="0"  src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/c13104df745c0914ef08efc9a6e51142ae706766f74ede67afd1f2b93b0ba7a7/untitled_4.png" /&#62;Annihilation, 2018. Photo: Paramount Pictures.

 
Ecological criticism has joined other left-positioned
political discourses in challenging the presumed naturalness of capitalism’s
supremacy. Anti-racist, anti-ableist, LBGTQIA, intersectional feminist and now
ecological conceptual frameworks share in common their different but
intersecting quests to resist capitalism and deconstruct the human body (of one
kind or another). These contemporary critical approaches to ideas about the
human being in its social and ecological contexts draw from postmodernist
theories of subjectivity and language. Language is important for ecology, which
is ‘a verbal study of the oikos and a
genre of scientifically and sociologically descriptive writing’&#38;nbsp;[v].
Postmodernist discourses work well with ecocritical ones in providing a new conceptual
language for imagining a fairer world beyond capitalism, since they both place the
human in liminal regions amid psycho-social or geographical landscapes, where
the human subject’s ecologically privileged position is disappeared, and where its
de-centred position takes on new resonances. 



Science fiction writer M. John Harrison
populates his Kefahuchi Tract trilogy (Light,
Nova Swing, and Empty Space: A Haunting)
with de-centred subjects whose importance to the unfolding events taking place
in their universe is incidental. Neither characters nor plots are singly
important, making each novel in the trilogy barely whole, comprised of countless
fragments. The trilogy’s universe is ruled by complementarity – a physics where
problems are resolved not by one law alone but by multiple. In this trilogy, aliens
discover space travel technology one way, while humans find it out by another.
Different methods arrive at the same result. This idea should be revolutionary,
not least because such a system accepts difference. 



This is the only positive, hopeful element
of this trilogy. The future it presents is shabby and retrospectively hooked on
twentieth-century kitsch. The inclusion of a place called the Deleuze Hotel
signals Harrison’s interest in ideas of deterritorialisation, capitalist desiring
machines and schizophrenic subjectivities. Nature is conspicuous by its absence.
Landscapes are ruinous, abandoned and uncanny. A planet famed for a sun which
can be viewed in a state of magnificent, permanent sunset has been exploited by
business and become a dishevelled tourist resort. People visit gene tailors to
gain new characteristics, abilities, or sensoria. Nobody wants to be themselves,
whatever that might be. The assistant to the detective is addicted to immersion
tanks providing sexual gratification. She watches herself orgasm, but it is not
an erotic event. Sex bears no relation to the seductive quality of desire, which
has disappeared from the body. In the Kefahuchi Tract future, desire can only
be found in the commodity. The haunting quality of empty space is the third
book’s leitmotif. The phrase ‘empty space’ appears throughout, serving a variety
of meanings – the empty space between each other, between humankind and nature,
and the empty space left behind when capitalism exhausts desire. In Harrison’s
trilogy, capitalism is really the central subject and it has driven a vast
wedge of empty space between humankind and nature.&#60;img width="1116" height="627" width_o="1116" height_o="627" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/c49a86a9cb0b7603ebe87fe5250d20575b963645ba373f8335b634a2a68e5de9/23-annihilation-2.w710.h473.2x-e1533505635639.jpg" data-mid="148587638" border="0"  src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/c49a86a9cb0b7603ebe87fe5250d20575b963645ba373f8335b634a2a68e5de9/23-annihilation-2.w710.h473.2x-e1533505635639.jpg" /&#62;Annihilation, 2018. Photo: Paramount Pictures.
 



Speculative narratives of futures where the
space between nature and humankind closes up rather than expands offer alternative
possibilities. One of these alternative approaches involves closing up the
space quite literally. In Jeff VanderMeer’s Southern
Reach series of novels (Annihilation,&#38;nbsp;Authority, and Acceptance), the story begins by following a scientific expedition sent
by a government agency known as Southern Reach into Area X, a littoral region of
interest to the government for the strange occurrences in the flora and fauna. Some
humans who visit become materially absorbed into the local ecosystem. A dolphin
has a human eye, a body is absorbed into the landscape: the bodies of the
separate beings end up assimilating each other and exist with each other symbiogenetically.
Donna Haraway describes symbiogenetic relations as arrangements and assemblages,
thereby emphasising the relational quality of all life:



Critters [all living things] interpenetrate one
another, loop around and through one another, eat each another, get
indigestion, and partially digest and partially assimilate one another, and
thereby establish sympoietic arrangements that are otherwise known as cells,
organisms, and ecological assemblages.&#38;nbsp;[vi] 
As the messy processes described above suggest, symbiosis is not necessarily
mutually beneficial and the idea of humans being entrapped in a new symbiotic
relationship with nature where nature alone benefits is one of the main ideas
explored by the Southern Reach series.
VanderMeer magnifies the principle of sympoeitic arrangements to create a
terrifying vision of the future where the human body loses its individualism,
distinct identity, voice, agency and physical form, becoming subservient to a
mysterious organic force. Similar to John Wyndham’s triffids, in the Southern Reach series, nature reclaims
the world from human beings, although the humans do not die. Such a fate would
be kinder than this symbiont existence.
The potency of horror lies is in its ability to expose truth violently through shock.
VanderMeer’s trilogy requires its readers to recognise the falsehood of their
assumed ecologically privileged selves. 
 
A common criticism of speculative fiction is
that its presentations of future worlds reinforce the new social and economic
forms of late capitalism more than they undermine them[vii].
But Harrison’s world of listless characters and peripheral plots at the margins
of the universe and VanderMeer’s expedition teams entrapped in a disastrous
symbiotic condition can only be interpreted as critically aware explorations of
capitalism’s potential to ruin us. However, considerations of post-human
landscapes need not require the annihilation of the human nor the imposition of
vast space between nature and humankind. There is the option to form new
articulations of capitalism that respond to the thesis of our symbiogenetic
condition, in the hope of designing an ecologically sensitive future.


Simone Hutchinson is a freelance editor and founder of Hedera Felix (est. 2018). Based in Glasgow, she has worked in creative production and academic publishing since 2004. Her previous work includes collaborative writing with artist Conal McStravick for Gnommero (2009–2015) edited by Sarah Tripp, Eona McCallum and Richard Taylor, and the multimedia installation, (SAC) Ongoing Bodies: Le Syndrome de Paris Suite exhibited at the Centre for Contemporary Arts (CCA) in Glasgow, February 2014, made with Conal McStravick and writer Alexander Kennedy (director of Daat Press).
Commissioned as part of Beyond Cataclysm, curated by Marcus Jack for Tyneside Cinema, July 2018.









[i] Jon Sanders, ‘The Ecology of Iain Crichton Smith’s ‘High Hills,’” Scottish Literary Review,&#38;nbsp;Spring/Summer 2015,
p. 78.







[ii] Donna Haraway, Staying with the Trouble: Making Kin with
the Chthulucene (Durham and London: Duke University Press: 2016), p.58.







[iii] Sanders, p. 72.







[iv] McKenzie Wark, ‘Climate Science as Sensory Infrastructure’, White Review, August 2014 http://www.thewhitereview.org/feature/climate-science-as-sensory-infrastructure/ [accessed 3 July 2018].







[v] Sanders, p. 76.







[vi] Haraway, ibid.







[vii] Frederic Jameson, Archaeologies of the Future (London
&#38;amp; New York: Verso: 2005), p. 165. 
	


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Published on the occasion of Soft Cells, curated by Transit Arts, March 2018.

Including introduction by Marcus Jack, poster print of a still from Fern Silva’s The Watchmen (2017), and an extract from Melissa Gronlund’s essay “Return of the Gothic: Digital Anxiety in the Domestic Sphere”, first published in e-flux, January 2014.

Double sided A3 risograph print in teal and black, designed by Marcus Jack.
	
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		<title>An Interview with Lutz Mommartz</title>
				
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Interviewer: Mr. Mommartz, please describe your relationship to Cinema?

Lutz: I rarely go to the cinema; I don’t like westerns, nor dramas, nor comedies. Sometimes—out of curiosity—I enter a movie theatre, but even then with care. Sometimes it excites me, but I don’t have an explanation for that.

How did you begin filmmaking?

I never wanted to become a filmmaker. In 1963 I was in Uganda for six weeks. There was an 8mm camera around, and filming was a good way to kill boredom in Africa. I recorded things that were atypical for Africa. This satisfied me deeply. By way of example, I filmed a tablecloth hanging in the wind, long shot, full frame. For a few moments the wonderful landscape could be seen behind it—in colour. This material was unfortunately lost. I intend on giving up filming only when I have succeeded in recording such a beautiful setting again.
&#60;img width="3465" height="2651" width_o="3465" height_o="2651" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/d9778b626aa048298fc0ffcea36e6ff1cf1cd7dffb62f2f823b091feaa4df0f6/dietreppe.png" data-mid="148590937" border="0"  src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/d9778b626aa048298fc0ffcea36e6ff1cf1cd7dffb62f2f823b091feaa4df0f6/dietreppe.png" /&#62;Lutz Mommartz, Die Treppe, 1967. The Lutz Mommartz Film Archive / Creative Commons.

Did you make any more 8mm works?

Yes, with friends and acquaintances, as a game about recording behaviours, without ‘filmic’ ambitions. Alongside this, I considered the possibility of constructing a film by stringing together chosen situations from the visible reality of the camera, without any post-production. This process required that each sequence be memorised. The selection of each image was based on my personal notions of plausibility. The more I recorded, the more specific the film became. After a relatively arbitrary start, plausible possibilities were incrementally reduced. This process demanded tremendous concentration.

Initially, I wanted to carry out these experiments with individuals. I bought an old 8mm camera and exposed others to situations where they had to react to me and the camera. This test was very interesting for me, I wanted to find out what actions would develop from such a situation. However, when I decided to apply this practice to a group each individual had to cope firstly with their own presence, and then with that of others. It was clear to us that outsiders couldn’t understand this process through the film itself. Buying and using the camera therefore had little to do with the making of film.

It soon turned out that approaches to playing with subjects and consciousness differed. Despite a willingness to work together everyone had their own interests. My interest turned out to be stronger than the others’. For the most part, the others in this group didn’t continue with these provocations. This is why we never established a commune, for example. I still didn’t want to become a filmmaker, but the camera enticed me to explore its possibilities. As I didn’t want to be a loner and considered myself a social being, I decided to make my ideas of the world public. In 1967, I bought a 16mm camera and shot the first films for EXPRMNTL 4 Film Festival in Knokke-le-Zoute at the end of the year. I couldn’t be bothered with presenting fictions, instead I lived through the story.


Transcript of Lutz Mommartz, Erste Interviews (Early Interviews), 1963-68. The Lutz Mommartz Film Archive / Creative Commons.

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	DOWSER, notes on artists’ moving image in Scotland was&#38;nbsp;a chapbook series published by Transit Arts from 2020 to 2024.DOWSER featured newly commissioned essays, interview transcripts and archival materials, making available a collated set of resources from which we might begin to plot a history of artists’ moving image in Scotland. DOWSER was a non-profit project. Each chapbook was released as an open access online PDF and in a limited print edition. ISSN 2634-7083 (Print)ISSN 2634-7091 (Online)

	

	Stockists
Transit Arts (Online)
Good Press, Glasgow, UK
LUX Moving Image, London, UK
Public House, Birmingham, UK
Blue Flower Texts, Ōtautahi, Aotearoa / Christchurch, New Zealand


	LibrariesGlasgow Zine Library, UK
BFI Reuben Library, London, UK
British Library, London, UK
National Library of Scotland, Edinburgh, UK
Bodleian Library, Oxford, UK
Cambridge University, UK
National Library of Wales, Aberystwyth, UK


	


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These are the stones we have instead of trees

Helen Nisbet

Summer 2020
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	2.

Circuits, Reels and ActionsAdam Lockhart



Autumn 2020
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	3.

Jugalbandi
Jasleen Kaur and Alia SyedWinter 2020/2021


	
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	4.A Persistent Vision
Lesley Keen
Spring 2021
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	5.
_BEATING_
Seán Elder
Summer 2021
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	Intermission
	

	6.
3 Variant Texts
Alan Robertson, Chris Byrne &#38;amp; Malcolm Dickson, Ann Vance
Summer 2022
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	7.
Dreaming a Black Scottish Archive

Naomi Gessesse
Autumn 2022
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	&#38;nbsp; &#38;nbsp; 


	

	8.
Projecting Abundance
Myriam Mouflih
Summer 2023
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	&#38;nbsp; &#38;nbsp;&#38;nbsp;

	9.
Inhale Less
Mandy McIntosh and Joey Simons
Winter 2023/2024
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	&#38;nbsp; &#38;nbsp;&#38;nbsp;

	
	10.

Working NearbyMason Leaver-Yap, Margaret Salmon, Tako Taal
Autumn 2024
	
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	All sales of issues 1–7 are inclusive of a minimum £2.00 donation to the Scottish Refugee Council (Registered Charity: SC008639). Since launching, DOWSER has raised over £1,250GBP (as of December 2021).Documentation courtesy of Morwenna Kearsley.


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		<title>Programming</title>
				
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		<pubDate>Sat, 23 Jul 2022 18:28:24 +0000</pubDate>

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	An archive of screenings, performances and exhibitions organised as part of the Transit Arts programme and in collaboration with others.
	


	If you know, you know
Roddy Buchanan, Jasleen Kaur, Lesley Keen, Mandy McIntosh, Lutz Mommartz, Margaret Tait, Alia Syed

18–21 February 2021
Online via Alchemy Film &#38;amp; Arts
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	The Territorial Sea



Forensic Oceanography,&#38;nbsp;Taus Makhacheva,&#38;nbsp;Francisco Rodríguez
1 December 2018
Document Film Festival
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	Dioramas

Patrick Hough, Karen Russo
26 October 2018Mycelia Publication Launch, The Glad Café


	
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	Beyond Cataclysm

Michelle Hannah, Jorge Jácome, Matthias Müller, Emily Richardson, Ben Rivers, Jon Schorstein, Fern Silva
20 July 2018
Tyneside Cinema
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	How to Thrive
James O’Brien, Liz Rosenfeld, Deborah Stratman

27 May 2018
Radical Film Network 1968 Festival, CCA Glasgow
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	DDR/DDR



Amie Siegel
24 May 2018Radical Film Network 1968 Festival, Goethe-Institut Glasgow

	
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	Soft Cells

Klaus vom Bruch, Christoph Girardet &#38;amp; Matthias Müller, Tessa Lynch, Amie Siegel, Fern Silva
15 March 2018
Glasgow Short Film Festival
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	Uncanny Loop:&#38;nbsp;The Bird with the Crystal Plumage


Daria Argento, Emily Richardson
8 September 2017
Scalarama, CCA Glasgow
	
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	Uncanny Loop: New Habitats

Morwenna Kearsley, Yuri Pattison, Emily Richardson, Jon Schorstein, Deborah Stratman

27 August 2017
Crossing the Line, Glasgow Film Theatre
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	Lutz Mommartz: the breath of the sheep and the sea is infinitely beautiful



Lutz Mommartz, Carrie Skinner
26 January 2017
CCA Glasgow
	
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	the weight of things

Morwenna Kearsley, Lutz Mommartz, Jenny Okun, Semiconductor, Jonas Staal
3–9 September 2016
Tontine Building
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	SAOTHAIR



Robin Haig, Nick Hand, Oliver Mezger, Margaret Salmon, Margaret Tait, Scottish Educational Film Association
29–30 April 2016
ATLAS Arts at Skye Live
	
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	and everything crooked will become straight

Dorine Aguerre, Miles Joseph, Lucie Rachel, Josie Rae Turnbull, Jane Topping

17–19 March 2016
Glasgow Short Film Festival
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	The Lens is a Lyric



Chris Bowman, Andy Mackinnon, Jen Martin
10 October 2015
Southside Film Festival
	
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	The Economy Experience

Caroline Campbell, Common Culture, Dennis &#38;amp; Debbie Club, Jean-Baptiste Maitre, Will Kendrick

11–18 September 2015
Various locations
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