We are happy to announce that the short text “The Plantationocene Monument” has been included in The New Echological Epoch, the ecoartspace online exhibition and printed book 2023, with Mary Mattingly as juror. It will be launched October 1, 2023. This piece of eco fiction […]
Image above: Mounds of slag from the old copper mines of Røros, Norway. Photo: Marit Gjermshus. Transdisciplinary in the Environmental Humanities Symposium. A ‘soils turn’ is under-way in the environmental humanities and associated social sciences and the arts. From an ignored or maligned natural body to a […]
Image above: Gipsön in the 1980s. Photo: Anders Hilding/Landskrona museum. The film “How to Wash an Island” by the art platform (p)Art of the Biomass tells the story about a man-made, toxic island in Sweden that most Swedes never have heard of. The island exists […]
Image above: Gipsön, the Gypsum Island. Film still: Karin Wegsjö / (p)Art of the Biomass. In a series of excursions, seminars and art & science retreats, Humus economicus aims to visit sites that bear witness, or stand as ruins of recent pasts. The sites have […]
Above: water color sketch in preparation for the carpet A Fallow / En Träda, Maja Fjaestad, 1919. Photo: Åsa Elzén. On May 4, we had the great pleasure of meeting artist Åsa Elzén who for many years – through a series of works, exhibitions, conversations, […]
3-4 May, 2021 During this second art & science retreat (see No. 1 here), we continued our series of walks, where we visit sites that bear witness to how human-soil relations have changed landscapes as well as heritage and soil imaginaries in a Swedish context. […]
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