EARTH research symposium, April 26

I've been mainly busy lately teaching and writing my book, although I have had some time to present some research in progress. I presented 'Missed Calls to Deep Futures' at the Lines of Flight symposium with the UAL EARTH research group last week. Here I went back to my Pazugoo work as intervention into understanding sites and toxicity in a nuclear context. This focused on challenging the paradigm of art as 'communication' to an imagined future. It was also cool to learn more about cyanobacteria, Causal Layered Analysis and moss.

UAL Holborn, The research symposium “Lines of Flight” is organized by UAL’s researcher network EARTH (Ecological Arts Research Transdisciplinary Hive)

The symposium is part of UAL’s Climate Emergency Network’s Earth Week programme themed “Fault Lines,” and the symposium is open to the public (with registration).

abstract of talk - I present extracts of my Pazugoo art research. This is an intervention into the Nuclear Industry project of ‘marking’ sites of radioactive waste for long-term futures. Through a range of work, exhibitions, residencies and collaborations, I take a critical approach to some of the assumptions of this project, challenging ‘communication’ as a framework and asking how such ‘markers’ could be understood in a more radically ecological way. The work highlights the importance of speculative methods and fictions; underground diagrams connecting buried waste to planetary sites of extraction and toxicity, and rethinking the deep time continuum through colonial histories and more-than-human futures.