Living earth : field notes form the dark ecology project 2014-2016
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Living Earth is filled with ideas, conversations, lectures, and documentation relating to commissioned installations, soundwalks, concerts and performances made for and during the Dark Ecology project. This three-year project, a collaboration between Sonic Acts and the Norwegian curator Hilde Methi, was held from 2014 to 2016 in different places in Norway and Russia and included three curated ‘Journeys’. Living Earth is a recreation of these research trips to the Barents Region, from Kirkenes and Svanvik in Norway to Nikel, Zapolyarny and Murmansk in Russia.
The project was inspired by Timothy Morton’s concept of ‘dark ecology’ and his philosophy of ‘ecology without Nature’. Morton offers a radical criticism of the modernist way of thinking about nature as something outside of us, and instead proposes an interconnected ‘mesh’ of all living and non-living objects. He ruminates on this idea in his essay for Living Earth entitled ‘What Is Dark Ecology’, stating at the outset that ecological awareness is ‘weird weirdness’.
TitleLiving earth : field notes form the dark ecology project 2014-2016
Author
Place of publicationAmsterdam
PublisherSonic Acts Press
Year of publication2016
Pagination256 p.
Illustrationsill.
Dimensions24 cm
Materialboek
ISBN978-90-823216-2-3
Subjecttechnology, sound, art and science, music, geology
Persons keywordSonic Acts
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| B-2016/237 | ,7.039.21,SO:N"2016 | Available |
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| Loan status | Available |