The book offers a survey of creative practices that engage with soil in all its dimensions. While I expected land art and pottery, I encountered edible soil, a floating food forest, hidden soil soundscapes, co-production with non-human collaborators, a decomposing SUV, explorations of earthworm’s perception, life within damaged soil ecosystems and many other works that call for a shift from control to care
Category Archive: green
Zone2Source, a “testing ground for art & ecology” in Amsterdam, is exploring a new form of democracy where not only the voices of people are heard, but also those of trees, animals, fungi and billions of other life forms
What can plants teach us in the context of the climate and ecological catastrophe? What is the untapped critical and creative potential of plants? What are the ethical and social consequences of our cultural marginalisation of plants?
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Giovanni Aloi delves into the history and representation of plants in art, advocates for a change in our relationship with the botanical world, and presents an alternative history of art that foregrounds the truly indispensable contributions of plants
A liberal might argue the crisis is the result of individual consumer behavior, whereas a libertarian sees an opportunity for geoengineering markets. A conspiracist might not believe the climate is at risk, whereas an ecofascist sees a chance to double down on the argument about who has the superior racial right to survive extinction….
Sheng-Wen Lo’s show examines interactions between human and nonhuman worlds. Across three works, Lo reveals how ‘sustainable’ solutions can themselves be fraught with contradictions
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Adrián Balseca investigates the relationships between economy, ecology and memory, as well as the power dynamics linked to extractivism and the exploitation of nature
Sensing machines mapping the Arctic, hormone-altering vapour, sweating bacteria, songs from the swamps…. This year’s Open Fields Conference was packed with mind-blowing discoveries
Inspired by the Dieselgate scandal, the work recontextualizes the industry’s own visual marketing tools to reveal the stark contrast between its professed environmental narrative and actual practices
PL’AI is a process lasting several months in which plants grown from seed and an AI-robot whose perceptual world is limited to them, interact with each other
Across twelve case studies, this book charts the emergence of diverse forms of artistic practice and brings together accounts of how artists, scholars and activists are creatively responding to environmental destruction
Jumana Manna’s film exposes how Israel is weaponising conservation laws to alienate Palestinians from their histories, land and traditions
Ressler takes a stand on the problem of increasing carbon emissions and accompanies civil disobedience activities that illuminate the inseparability of environmental issues and sociopolitical as well as economic conditions
The film explores the boom in data centre construction near the Arctic Circle through the fictional story of a surveyor who has travelled north to survey a site for the building of a server farm…
Whether they make the sky cry or celebrate the Constellation of Taurus, Nadal’s performances and sculptures play with atmospheric events and everything that is elusive and ethereal