I am a guest on the IHME Art, Science and Ecology podcast series talking with Hanna Johansson, Dean of the Academy of Fine Arts at Helsinki University about ecological transition and art schools, Dartington’s learning programme and community, and my own artwork focused around water and rivers. You can find the podcast on Helsinki Open…
Category: Art and Ecology
Ecology of Words
The HIAP (Helsinki International Artists Programme) 2017 Yearbook has just been published online. You can download the pdf here. The yearbook includes a summary of my Ecology of Words Workshop which took words on adventures around the Finnish island of Suomenlinna. Other artists and writers featured in the yearbook include Jussi Parikka, Riikka Pelo, Jenni…
Wu Wei Workshop
Wu Wei is the sense of letting go, of letting yourself be spacious so that the universe can come in. Friday 31 July 2020 19.00-21.30 & Saturday 1 August 2020 11.00-18.00 (European time) On Zoom 50 euros, Registration deadline: 23 July 2020, info@gresolart.com (English, Castellano and Catalan spoken. Flyer also available in Castellano and Catalan.)…
Dartington Laser – Tracking Water
The third in the Dartington Laser talks series – Art After The Collapse – takes place tomorrow, Friday 15 Nov, 7pm-9.15, free, at Dartington Studio 3. Pay bar in the Space Cafe from 6pm. The series considers how artists are working on ‘deep adaptation’ to a climate and ecological collapse that some say has already…
Dartington Laser Talks – Art After The Collapse 2
In tomorrow’s second session of the Dartington Laser talks series – Art After The Collapse – artists Shezad Dawood, Neal White, Vivek Vilasini, Ellie Harrison and Paul Chaney will be talking about visions of deep adaptation for societal and ecological change in their artworks. Art After The Collapse is curated and chaired by Rob La…
Madrid Research
Selected compilation of research process for Microhabitable project: Matadero Madrid – Artists Residency Centre; my studio in Matadero; Palacio de Cristal de Arganzuela; water drops in the tropical zone in Palacio de Cristal de Arganzuela; Jose Manuel Naredo biosphere cycle; Manzanares River; bookshelf; Hieronymus Bosch, The Garden of Earthly Delights, exterior panels, Prado; Leticia Felgueroso,…
Constant Gardening
Last day of my residency at Matadero Madrid. I’ve been following my nose through a research process for the Microhabitable project, working towards writing future fiction. The Microhabitable project is a study programme co-organised by Matadero, Inland CAR and Serpentine Galleries General Ecology programme. It considers issues of scale – macro and micro – in…
Big small things
I have arrived in Madrid to work for a month in the art and ecology Microhabitable project, focused on issues of scale. My residency is hosted by Matadero Madrid who are co-organising Microhabitable with INLAND and the Serpentine Galleries. I’m interested in entanglement and in the macrocosmic cycles of water and life and decomposition, which…
The Garden of Earthly Delights
I am starting an artist’s residency next week at Matadero in Madrid as part of the Microhabitable project, co-organised with Serpentine Galleries and INLAND. I’m intending to explore human and non-human entanglements through twitter fiction and a publication. I will build on my previous published and installed texts – Meanda, The Water Age, Ink Tourettes. I’m interested to…
Dartington LASER – Art After The Collapse
A series of free talks (booking essential). Speakers include Farhana Yamin, Rupert Read, Dougald Hine, Shezad Dawood, Paul Chaney, Ingrid Pollard, Ellie Harrison, Vivek Vilasini and Alexandra Geldenhuys. https://www.dartington.org/event/dartington-laser-talks-art-after-the-collapse/
Tracey Warr Writing 