ClimateCultures

ClimateCultures: now 200+ artist/curator/researcher Members. @ClimateCultures Views here not necessarily theirs or my own, but posts on our site are definitely expressions of individual creativity in response to environmental & climate crises! Check out climatecultures.net

It's been a while - but there's lots of great new content on our site. And now you can also find us on Substack, where we're starting a creative enquiry into nature & climate. The climate/nature emergency as a failure of imagination. climateculturesandmore.substack.com

New on our blog, a review of @bearspeaks's beautiful 'Nettle-eater': "concise, expansive, poetic prose on peril, discovery & instability in the wild experience of a soul going mad to become truly sane, breaking and remaking our understanding of existence." wp.me/p8dsAT-58H

Invasive species can grow aggressively, outcompeting native plant populations for sunlight, space and nutrients, leading to a wider decline in the wildlife that depends on them. climatecultures.net/portfolio/inva…

New in our Creative Showcase: Artist Michael Gresalfi‘s vibrant painting takes a sunflower as one indication of the impacts of our growing proliferation of multiple species of visually stunning & economically valued but invasive flowers.

New on our blog: Photographer Joan Sullivan's new exhibition is haunted by a recurring question, “If I were a tree, what would I feel when the flames arrived?” — and confronts the Pyrocene as the world heats to record-breaking levels. wp.me/p8dsAT-57p

New on our blog: Visual artist James Aldridge shares his art & research on neuro/queering nature, helping us to explore how valuing different perspectives & learning from divergent experience can expand our ways of seeing & being with the natural world. wp.me/p8dsAT-56B

🎨 Join us for an afternoon of art, nature and exploration! 🌿 📆 Sat, 23 Nov 2024, 13:00 –16:00 📌 GroundWork Gallery 🎟️ tinyurl.com/3dphx73r Meet our engagement lead, Tim, and Artist James Aldridge for a riverside ramble and creative experience. #NatureInspires

New on our blog: writer & researcher @JulesPretty1 presents 3 objects & stories of personal resonance in the #Anthropocene, where the common theme of #story itself is a powerful mark of individual & cultural #agency for change & #hope in uncertain times. wp.me/p8dsAT-55x

New in our Creative Showcase, artist Ivilina Kouneva @FragileBalances shares a short diary of her collaboration with poet Jaclyn Piudik, “For Rituals and Visuals: a Myth under my Skin…” where “the mythical lurks through daily life.” climatecultures.net/portfolio/for-…

And Kim adds personal reflections on her creative approach to sparking conversations about being good ancestors - "an opportunity to take more personal action by initiating rarely had conversations about what it means to be a good ancestor—looking ahead 30, 50,100 years."

New on our blog: Kim V Goldsmith's essay with fellow Australian artists Joanne Stead, Anna Glynn, Tracy Luff, Jane Richens, Laura Baker, Tania Hartigan + creative producer Narelle Vogel explores Regional Australia through intersectional feminism. wp.me/p8dsAT-54l

"Stoicism is a philosophy that is focused on living a meaningful and virtuous life ... It encourages us all to participate as active members of society, and to do so with a moral obligation to both express virtue towards other peoples, and to care for all creation."

New on our blog: artist Michael Gresalfi introduces the personal value to him of adopting the ancient philosophy of Stoicism and its principles in his quest to "live a life worth living", and to do so in a more environmentally sensitive manner. wp.me/p8dsAT-53M

"If the book is effective in that advocacy—if people read it and then tear up their front yards to plant a garden with their children, or even if they grow a bit of kale in a pot on the patio—then I think it is a successful project and I am grateful for it."

"it does also clearly advocate that consumers get their hands in the dirt & visit a farm—that we all build better relationships with growers & make some connection to the soil, & that we make opportunities for children to do the same."

New on our blog: Farmer & writer Paul Feather reviews Six Inches of Soil @5m_Books & finds progressive stories about regenerative farming could better integrate their roots in Indigenous practices of reciprocity & respect & tap radical perspectives. wp.me/p8dsAT-53k

Thanks to our 4 students for their short 'object essays': a replica of Columbus’s ship in a Canadian mall; the banana & plantation monocropping; the diamond engagement ring & gendered notions of ownership; the first piece of art produced in space & hope in things held in common.

NEW on our blog @uniofeastanglia geographer Martin Mahony returns with new student contributions to our Museum of the Anthropocene, with objects on a theme of ‘ownership’ & expanding this notion in a startling view from beyond earthbound perspectives. wp.me/p8dsAT-52p

New on our blog @MarkJGoldthorpe looks at new initiatives for regenerative design from @archdeclare, a paradigm shift embracing principles of being a good ancestor, coevolving with nature and creating a just space for people. wp.me/p8dsAT-51z