Thom Van Dooren quotes (p. 141) Val Plumwood saying, When we hyperseparate ourselves from nature and reduce it conceptually, we not only lose the ability to empathise and to see the non-human sphere in ethical terms, but also get a false sense of our own character and location that includes an illusory sense of agency... Continue Reading →
Aesthetics of Uncivilisation Pt.2
The first post under the title Aesthetics of Uncivilisation focused on responding to Charlotte Du Caan's call for submissions for the Dark Mountain Project's next publications and her reflection on Seeing through a glass darkly. She said, The fact that civilisation holds us so tightly in its unkind embrace is not only because it controls... Continue Reading →
Aesthetics of uncivilisation (call for visual works)
At Carrying the Fire, which was held at Whiston Lodge last year, Dougie Strang had asked me to contribute to the discussions, and I read a section of Helen Mayer Harrison and Newton Harrison's Lagoon Cycle (1985). The poem evokes the world-wide changes resulting from the increase in heat and consequent decrease in ice. The... Continue Reading →
The Archivist
How do you represent ideas that are far away, remote or don't exist yet? The Environmental Art Festival Scotland (EAFS) was spread across rural Dumfries and Galloway, but its ambition was to represent environmental art ideas from much further afield. Exhibitions of ideas in the form of documentation can be very problematic, even if they... Continue Reading →
Deep Routes: research, scale and indigeneity
Reblogging this review of the Compass Collaborator's excellent Deep Routes: MidWest in all Directions
Spirited discussions pt. 4 (by Ben Twist, Director of Creative Carbon Scotland)
The last of our Spirited Discussions asking, ‘Can Art Change the Climate? was entitled: Going Beyond the Material: Environment and Invisible Forces in the Literary, Performing and Visual Arts. This, in some ways, reminded me of Wallace Heim’s reference in Spirited Discussion part 2 to Alan Badiou’s idea that the four critical kinds of event... Continue Reading →
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