Planetary consciousness without embodiment As I write, I think of the photograph now known as Earthrise,[1] taken by William Anders during Apollo 8 on 24 December 1968, as the first crewed spacecraft circumnavigated the Moon. The image has long been read academically as helping to catalyse environmental consciousness by presenting Earth as single, bounded, fragile,... Continue Reading →
Guest review: Some kind of love – actions and reactions to living on a damaged planet
Exhibition review by Dave Pritchard Cull (part of Fire Complex). Video and audio installation. Photo: Dave Pritchard “It’s past the size of dreaming” declared Cleopatra, in a different story of love[1] – but as efforts to grapple with enormities go, the exhibition reviewed here (and however/wherever it may next ripple onwards) is a gem that... Continue Reading →
Reblog – James Aldridge: Walking Out
This blog is from James Aldridge and discusses his river-focused practice and his thinking about beavers and their practice, imagining how they are connected. Over the last few months I’ve been parking up and walking out from some of the towns and villages sited along the Bristol Avon and its tributaries, as they run through... Continue Reading →
Guest Essay: Cabrach Reconnections, an art project investigating how people live in a specific place
This photoessay has been developed by the artists Mary Bourne and Lynne Strachan to highlight the Cabrach Reconnections project, started in 2021 and ongoing. You can follow @cabrachreconnections on Instagram. For details of the event on Sat 14 June 2025, see below the story. Introduction The Cabrach is a remote depopulated area of desolate beauty... Continue Reading →
Guest Review – Dave Pritchard on ‘See Here Now: Art in a Time of Urgency’
“…as an act of defiance as a way to care as a way to think differently as a capable future as a way to find out what’s in it for the forest…”Extract from “What’s in it for the Forest? The Writing on the Wall” – text exhibit by David Haley Jools Gilson in Weathering by Mary Wycherley (2023).... Continue Reading →
Review of ‘Thinking with the Harrisons’
Iain Biggs has reviewed Anne Douglas and my book 'Thinking with the Harrisons' on his blog here http://www.iainbiggs.co.uk/2024/10/thinking-with-the-harrisons-re-imagining-the-arts-in-the-global-environmental-crisis-leuven-university-press-october-9th-2024-a-review/ He says of our project ...they write both as observant participants working from direct first-hand involvement in the Harrisons’ processes, and from a researcher’s concern with rigorous creative ‘thinking with’. Thinking that in the course of their... Continue Reading →
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