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5 Bird in Flight

Bird in Flight (from Black Haiku)
Photograph: Robynne Limoges © 2018
www.robynnelimoges.com

Posted on 1st March 20182nd March 2018 Full size 1920 × 1278

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ClimateCultures is a network of over 230 artists, curators & researchers in many countries. Our Directory showcases the diversity of interests, practices & works bringing creative responses to our ecological and climate crises. You can search for individual members below.

NEW in our Creative Showcase

The latest feature of recent work from our members is Peter Reason‘s Songs for Earth: “How does one sing in the face of the ecological crisis — the disruption of the process of life itself, permanent loss of evolutionary complexity, permanent endings of patterns of being? Songs for Earth are my response: songs of grief and rage; of beauty and blessing; of belonging.” Also: Ursula Troche‘s performance video, Picked Up the First Pieces, exploring the growing threat of ‘ghost gear’ and the haunting of our seas by plastic waste. And Stormy Weather, a short film poem from Laura Donkers conveying collective collusion in climate change through verbal message, moving film image, and soundscapes of Cyclone Gabrielle, bird song and dance music. Explore many other works: comic books, courses, film, fiction, nonfiction, memoir, music, poetry, stand-up comedy, visual art, zines and more.

NEW in the Museum of the Anthropocene

Our online Museum of the Anthropocene shares content from a project that geographer Dr Martin Mahony is running with third-year students on the University of East Anglia’s Geography and Environmental Sciences course. “From world-changing technologies to humble consumer goods, and from family heirlooms to priceless works of art, each year the Museum is stocked with objects which tell stories of both personal and planetary significance.” In his latest post, Centrifugal Stories in the Anthropocene, Martin introduces the second collection of students’ objects, and how our Museum of the Anthropocene’s ‘centrifugal’ stories resist casting all of humanity together as progenitors of our new planetary age. 

Longer: our special feature for exploring in depth

Longer is the ClimateCultures offering of works that don’t fit within the normal ‘short reads’ format of our blog: essays, stories or other forms that haven’t been freely available online elsewhere, although they may have appeared in print or other formats. See Open Deep Mapping: Conversations-in-process, Places-in-time, an essay from independent artist and researcher Iain Biggs.

Environmental Keywords – interdisciplinary conversations

Throughout 2022, we worked with the University of Bristol Centre for Environmental Humanities to explore interdisciplinary meanings of some keywords in our climate and biodiversity crisis. Our online materials complement the University’s workshops for researchers, community groups and creative practitioners. See our project pages for blog posts and more than 25 creative contributions from our members on themes of Environmental Justice, Resilience and Transitions – and our prototype ‘Undisciplined Glossary’!

Our Latest Posts

  • Hope Tales – Stories for Change 14th September 2023
  • Power, Love, Religion & Climate Fiction: Life Imitating Art 23rd August 2023
  • The Start of Something Going Wrong 1st August 2023
  • A Drop in the Pond 11th July 2023
  • Centrifugal Stories in the Anthropocene 22nd June 2023

New Members

  • Peter Adkins – A researcher and writer exploring how literature helps us imagine, understand and rethink environmental history, planetary change, resource use, and relationships between humans and other animals.

Our Authors: 2022 & 2023

These are our ClimateCultures blog authors for 2022 and for 2023 so far (most recent authors in bold). For authors in previous years, see our full blog archive – and our Quarantine Connection, Creative Showcase and Environmental Keywords contributors too!

  • Claire Atherton
  • Iain Biggs
  • Paul Feather
  • Chris Fremantle
  • Kim V. Goldsmith
  • Mark Goldthorpe
  • Brit Griffin
  • Stanley Grill
  • Mick Haining
  • Niels Hoek 
  • Susan Holliday
  • Andrew Howe
  • Hassaun Jones-Bey
  • Rob La Frenais
  • Beckie Leach
  • Martin Mahony
  • Julia Marques
  • Indigo Sapphire Moon
  • Helen Moore
  • Giovanni Enrico Morassutti
  • James Murray-White
  • Lola Perrin
  • Rod Raglin
  • Genevieve Rudd
  • Nicky Saunter
  • Joan Sullivan
  • Philip Webb Gregg
  • Mary Woodbury

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Members: The ClimateCultures blog is a rich, diverse collection of original posts exclusively from our Members. If you’re an artist, curator or researcher exploring environmental or climate topics, join us. It’s free! Share your ideas and work on the blog. Feature your News in Brief in our monthly newsletter, Re:Culture.

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    • A History of the Anthropocene in 50 Objects
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      • ‘Environmental Transitions’ – Taking the Conversation Forward
      • NEW: Environmental Keywords – Towards an Undisciplined Glossary
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      • A Creative Pause
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