Fieldwork for Future Ecologies: Radical practice for art and art-based research

‘Fieldwork for Future Ecologies’ explores the role of art practice and research in expanding notions of fieldwork, offering creative and speculative interventions into the idea and location of the field itself. It highlights the crucial contribution that art can make to environmental and climate studies, offering a valuable intervention into current discussions of artistic practice and research. Contributing authors include Angus Carlyle, Alliance of the Southern Triangle/AST, Bianca Hester, Bridget Crone, David Burns, Henriette Gunkel, Imani Jacqueline Brown, Julie Gough, Kate Pickering, Kreider + OLeary, Kristen Sharp, Melody Jue, Nicholas Mangan, Philip Samartzis, Polly Stanton, Ruth Maclennan, Sam Nightingale, Saskia Beudel, Simon OSullivan, Susan Schuppli, Therese Keogh, and more.

Format: Paperback / softback
Publication date: 01 December 2022
Publisher: Onomatopee

‘Fieldwork for Future Ecologies’ is a groundbreaking book that brings together contributions by artists, writers, and theorists to explore the role of art practice and art-based research in expanding notions of fieldwork. It serves as both a handbook for research and practice and a philosophical speculation, offering a unique opportunity to explore ways of working within diverse climates and terrains using image, sound, movement, and other sensing technologies. The book highlights the crucial contribution that art can make to environmental and climate studies, offering a valuable intervention into current discussions of artistic practice and research.

The book presents a series of propositions and speculations, radical practices for radical times. Contributing authors include Angus Carlyle, Alliance of the Southern Triangle/AST (D Bauer, F Grodin, P M Hernandez, E Kedan), Bianca Hester, Bridget Crone, David Burns, Henriette Gunkel and Eline McGeorge, Imani Jacqueline Brown, Julie Gough, Kate Pickering, Kreider + OLeary, Kristen Sharp, Melody Jue, Nicholas Mangan, Philip Samartzis, Polly Stanton, Ruth Maclennan, Sam Nightingale, Saskia Beudel, Simon OSullivan, Susan Schuppli, Therese Keogh.

Bridget Crone is the Senior Lecturer in Visual Cultures at Goldsmiths, The University of London. Her work as a curator and writer is situated at the intersections between theory and practice, weaving across fields of practice to propose new forms of encounter between body and image. Her books include The Edinburgh Companion to Curatorial Futures (edited with Bassam El Baroni), forthcoming with Ed.

‘Fieldwork for Future Ecologies’ is a groundbreaking book that brings together contributions by artists, writers, and theorists to explore the role of art practice and art-based research in expanding notions of fieldwork. It serves as both a handbook for research and practice and a philosophical speculation, offering a unique opportunity to explore ways of working within diverse climates and terrains using image, sound, movement, and other sensing technologies. The book highlights the crucial contribution that art can make to environmental and climate studies, offering a valuable intervention into current discussions of artistic practice and research.

Weight: 716g
Dimension: 143 x 218 x 38 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9789493148918