"We are sorry it has taken so long to get back to you, but this letter has not been an easy one to write and things have been difficult here. We are also sorry that what began as a letter has perhaps become a long “manifesto against a world that we hate” (to quote one... Continue Reading →
An Edge Effect: Art & Ecology in the Nordic Landscape | Mythological Quarter
New book which looks really interesting... Bonnie Fortune says "In making the book, I followed my own interests focusing on artists and arts groups who are working in expanded ways–connecting with others via interdisciplinary and discursive modes of artistic practice. I also followed a network of artists who have previously collaborated, tracing a community of... Continue Reading →
Only Human? Thom Van Dooren on Vultures and on Snails
Last Sunday Thom Van Dooren spoke about extinction at the first Only Human? Festival in Glasgow, part of the nationwide Arts & Humanities Research Council Being Human Festival. Previous posts have highlighted key quotes from his book Flight Ways: Life and Loss at the Edge of Extinction. Thom very kindly agreed to us sharing recordings... Continue Reading →
Tim Morton – I’ve been kicked in the biosphere (more on extinction)
. More rock and roll, less evocative of the specifics of individual as well as species loss (slow violence, human exceptionalism, nature of hope), you should read Tim Morton's contribution to the EXTINCT.LY site which is also the home for documentation of the Serpentine's Extinction Marathon.
Only Human? and what of autonomy?
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 →
Land Art Generator Initiative
Hyperallergic recently covered the Copenhagen 2014 Land Art Generator Initiative competition saying, "There is no shortage of art critiquing humankind’s abuse of the earth today. While these works help illuminate the problem, they don’t actually solve it. But what if artists could use their know-how to engage in a practice that actually brings about real... Continue Reading →
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