What food will nurture future revolutions? To answer this question, Sated brings to the table food radical and artist Petr Davydtchenko, who, over the last
Cohabiting the Microcosm and Macrocosm
This study session of Calculative Environments (curated by Theo Reeves-Evison) at Nottingham Contemporary attends to the question of eco-aesthetic ‘scale effects’. How does the world or reality
Scalar Aesthetics of Ecocinema: The Wall and The Survivalist
This article concentrates on two twenty-first century examples of popular ‘ecocinema’ in order to ask what moving images accomplish when they take on the scale
After Baruchello: Agricultural Encounters in Contemporary Art
This chapter identifies a cultural turn towards political ecology, in the sense that Bruno Latour defines it, primarily due to the contentiousness within pre-established categories
Kurt Schwitters and 27 Senses: Resonances in Norway, England and Time
In the 1990s, Hal Foster observed that ethnographic or politicized art practices were diverging from a neo-avant-gardiste precedent: an investment in the remobilization of historic
A Withdrawing Vital Material
Taking the plight of the British honeybee as a point of departure, this article considers the coded implications, organic materiality, and medium-specificity of honey by
