Here are our posts so far for 2023, from ClimateCultures members: Claire Atherton, Paul Feather, Kim V. Goldsmith, Hassaun Jones-Bey, Beckie Leach, Martin Mahony, Helen Moore, Indigo Sapphire Moon, Giovanni Enrico Morassutti, Rod Raglin, Genevieve Rudd, Nicky Saunter and Veronica Sekules.
You can find over 170 previous posts from our growing network of members published in 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018 and 2017. And you can also explore all our posts by category – or by author listed in our sidebar.
September 2023
Starting to See Waste as Art and Heritage
by Veronica Sekules
28 September 2023
Longer
1,570 words: estimate reading time = 6 minutes
Curator and writer Veronica Sekules introduces her special essay for our Longer feature, using GroundWork Gallery’s recent exhibition to explore artists’ roles in helping change how we value what we discard, viewing our waste as art and heritage
Hope Tales – Stories for Change
by Nicky Saunter
14 September 2023
Challenges of Creative Engagement
1,170 words: estimated reading time = 4.5 minutes
Entrepreneurial thinker, practical activist and artist Nicky Saunter shares the Hope Tales project she’s working on to find creative ways to make sustainable futures and talk about the role of hope, imagination and story in facing climate change.
August 2023
Power, Love, Religion & Climate Fiction: Life Imitating Art
by Rod Raglin
23 August 2023
Challenges of Creative Engagement
1,160 words: estimated reading time = 4.5 minutes
Writer Rod Raglin discusses his novel The Triumvirate and how a story about power, love and religion finds echoes in our unfolding climate crisis and how we try to come to grips with a hostile and uncertain future.
The Start of Something Going Wrong
by Helen Moore
1 August 2023
Review
1,130 words: estimated reading time = 4.5 minutes
Ecopoet Helen Moore reviews Her Whereabouts, a new collection from fellow poet Joanna Guthrie, whose accumulated acts of noticing and subtle inferences weave her mother’s debilitating strokes with ecological loss in the climate crisis into a poetic memoir.
July 2023
A Drop in the Pond
by Rod Raglin
11 July 2023
Cultural Change
940 words: estimated reading time = 4 minutes
Writer and online community newspaper publisher, Rod Raglin shares the story of a local Vancouver, Canada, park pond reduced to a seasonal wetland — and a neigbourhood’s dispute with local administrators on how to respond amid severe climate change.
June 2023
Centrifugal Stories in the Anthropocene
by Martin Mahony
22 June 2023
Learning in the Anthropocene
1,200 words: estimated reading time = 5 minutes
Geographer Martin Mahony introduces a second collection of objects from his ‘Human Geography in the Anthropocene’ students, and how our Museum of the Anthropocene’s ‘centrifugal’ stories resist casting all of humanity as progenitors of our new planetary age.
Resisting a Human Anthropocene: Diasporic African Religious Experiences in Nature
by Hassaun Jones-Bey
Spiritual Ecology
3,050 words: estimated reading time = approximately 12 minutes
Writer Hassaun Jones-Bey introduces a human Anthropocene as corollary for our planet’s new geological era. The commodification of enslaved Africans and their descendants in the US shows human nature resisting the same commodification that’s visited upon non-human nature.
May 2023
Regional Futures: Giving Voice to Human and More-Than-Human
by Kim V. Goldsmith
23 May 2023
Conversations
2,600 words: estimated reading time = approximately 10 minutes + option audio pieces
Artist Kim V. Goldsmith shares her work with Regional Futures in NSW, Australia, exploring people’s feelings for rural territories. We need to listen better to each other, ourselves, and more-than-human worlds for more collaborative approaches to the future.
April 2023
Ecoart in Action – Provocations to Creative Engagement
by Claire Atherton, Beckie Leach, Genevieve Rudd and Nicky Saunter
27 April 2023
Conversations / Review
2,100 words: estimated reading time = 8 minutes + optional 20-minute video
In their third collaborative post reviewing Ecoart in Action, artists Claire Atherton, Beckie Leach, Genevieve Rudd and Nicky Saunter explore the provocations this book offers for ecoart practices and discourse — complementing their earlier discussions on the book’s activities and case studies.
Creative Whispers: Nature’s Power to Wellness
by Indigo Sapphire Moon
3 April 2023
In the Elements
1,100 words: estimated reading time = 4.5 minutes
Sapphic and neuroqueer artist Indigo Sapphire Moon shares her experience of nature as a source of creative whispers, which blossom into ideas like her new poetry collection, and a space for us to exist outside our human story.
March 2023
Create the Future – Creatives in Residence for Climate Change
by Giovanni Enrico Morassutti
20 March 2023
Challenges of Creative Engagement
1,800 words: estimated reading time = 7 minutes
Actor, director and cultural entrepreneur, Giovanni Enrico Morassutti shared case studies of creatives in residence, of climate theatre and community engagement with an international conference, exploring strategies for encouraging cross-disciplinary projects to address the biodiversity and climate crisis.
Ecoart Case Studies – Theory into Practice
by Claire Atherton, Beckie Leach, Genevieve Rudd and Nicky Saunter
2 March 2023
Conversations / Review
2,000 words: estimated reading time = 8 minutes + optional 18-minute video
In the second of three collaborative posts reviewing Ecoart in Action, artists Claire Atherton, Beckie Leach, Genevieve Rudd and Nicky Saunter find plenty to discuss in a sample of the book’s rich collection of international ecoart case studies.
February 2023
Super Wicked Problem – or, the Crisis Formerly Known as Climate
by Paul Feather
7 February 2023
Cultural Change
2,000 words: approx reading time = 8 minutes
Farmer and author Paul Feather seeks the meaning of our planetary crisis, and names that can reflect its super wicked nature, in local spaces of resistance that serve as the wombs from which deeper understanding will be born.
January 2023
Ecoart Activities – Working With Place & People
by Claire Atherton, Beckie Leach, Genevieve Rudd and Nicky Saunter
10 January 2023
Conversations / Review
2,900 words: estimated reading time = 11 minutes + optional: up to 26 mins video clips
Artists Claire Atherton, Beckie Leach, Genevieve Rudd and Nicky Saunter have joined up to review Ecoart in Action: Activities, Case Studies and Provocations for Classrooms and Communities. This first of three collaborative posts samples the guide’s ecoart activities.