Water and Stone – CAST

Notes from CAST’s event Water and Stone: Bashing Granite – David Paton stone in relation to cultural geography – exploring … More

Bram Arnold

Notes from talk: ‘You are here on earth to do good for others//But what the others are here for I … More

Rock Tracking

I’ve been thinking about doing a piece where I track a rock for a while, although initially it was in … More

Object-Oriented Ontology, Graham Harman

Introduction ‘philosophy has great cognitive value even though it is not a form of knowledge. And in a time like … More

Residence time

The quotation was taken from Astrida Neimanis’ Hydrofeminism: Or, On Becoming a Body of Water (2012). (Image Simryn Gill Channel #15 2014) … More

Hyperobjects, Timothy Morton

He defines object-oriented ontology as ‘an emerging philosophical movement committed to a unique form of realism and nonanthropocentric thinking’ (2) … More

New Materialisms, Diana Coole and Samantha Frost

‘For there is an apparent paradox in thinking about matter: as soon as we do, we seem to distance ourselves … More

Tania Kovats

https://www.drawingopen.com/tania-kovats ‘The main focus of Kovats’ work is how art mediates and communicates our experience of what we call nature, … More

Vibrant Matter, Jane Bennett

Preface: How would political responses to public problems change were we to take seriously the vitality of (nonhuman) bodies? By … More

Simon Starling

The Nanjing Particles and Project for A Public Sculpture play with scale and materiality, blowing particles up to human scale … More