Flood Wall Street - isn't this what happened during Hurricane Sandy? Tomorrow it will be a direct action following today's People's Climate March. Today will be properly licensed and marshalled with an approved route. Tomorrow will be different. Worthreading this article to understand the argument about the depoliticisation of the mainstream climate justice movement versus... Continue Reading →
Content of Nothing :: Part 8 :: ….it moves, actually, in a Reticulum
Judy Spark: You remarked earlier that you feel that for you it’s “important to keep a lightness to creative work” and I would certainly agree with you on this and I think that this does bear even more import for visual than for written work. Other than the ‘academic’ aspect of some written work, I’m... Continue Reading →
Content of Nothing :: Part 7 :: Making and Writing
Judy Spark: We have talked about ‘hope’ and about ‘wonder’ but looking around at those mechanisms that will seek to commodify almost every realm of human endeavour the second it appears, it’s easy to feel a bit dispirited sometimes, despite the legions of creative practitioners who are standing up to this – or that play... Continue Reading →
Opportunity: Paper makers – communicating science through art
Paper making, the production of academic papers, is an increasingly important and interesting part of the work of artists, and in particular artists working with environmental and ecological issues. This opportunity was recently highlighted by Dave Borthwick on belhalf of Lydia Bach and Kate Foster: The Paper Makers project, funded by the British Ecological Society,... Continue Reading →
Content of Nothing :: Part 6 :: On Hope
[In the previous post, Samantha Clark had been talking about the ethical import of wonder in the work of Ronald Hepburn, Suzi Gablick and Jane Bennett.] Judy Spark: I want to believe in this link between wonder and ‘ethical generosity’ and even love and that there may only be a ‘short step’ from here to... Continue Reading →
Content of Nothing :: Part 5 :: On Wonder
Judy Spark: Olafur Eliasson’s work seems built around this notion of a ‘gap’ as we catch ourselves in the shift between responding to what it seems we are faced with and our recognition of this response. Although I have only ever seen it in books, I love this piece; it resembles some sort of natural... Continue Reading →
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