Starting a two year AHRC-DFG jointly funded reseach project on the work of ecological anthropologist Gregory Bateson, together with Joanna Boehnert, Marie Davidova, Dulmini Perera, Simon Sadler and Ben Sweeting. You can follow us online at https://www.enactingecologicalaesthetics.com/ Enacting Gregory Bateson’s Ecological Aesthetics in Architecture and Design Anne Douglas and I discussed Gregory Bateson's ecological thinking... 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 →
‘Conversational Drift’ keynote programme for ‘Helen and Newton Harrison California Work’ exhibition
Helen Mayer Harrison and Newton Harrison engaging in 'Conversational Drift' during Greenhouse Britain: Losing Ground, Gaining Wisdom (2007-09) Anne Douglas and I have been invited to put together panel discussions and give a keynote lecture to complement the 'Helen and Newton Harrison California Work' four venue exhibition curated by Tatiana Sizonenko for La Jolla Historical... Continue Reading →
Reblog: Global Environment Policy as political theatre #COP26
Reposting from Artists & Climate Change, Kyoto Forever? UN Climate Conferences as Political Theatre is a valuable exploration of the ways in which theatre can open up and imagine global environment policy-making, particularly as enacted in UN Framework Convention on Climate Change Conventions of the Parties (UNFCCC COPs, particularly with COP26 coming to Glasgow in... Continue Reading →
Newton Harrison: 3 recent videos including ‘Apologia Mediterranean’
Three recent video works by Newton Harrison - an apology to the Mediterranean Sea, a call to Scotland to become the first industrialised country to give back more than it takes out, and an installation to assist biodiversity to adapt in Northern California. https://youtu.be/ve-zt2IMQwU Meditation on the Mediterranean. Included in the Collateral events of the... Continue Reading →
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