Coming soon, part 2 of the Soil of Ecological Union gathering, this time in Dortmund’s Kunstler*innenhaus, exhibition/residency called

 

Tingling Earth / Schauer Unter der Haut der Erde 🔥

 

All details HERE. Thanks to Natalia Matsenko, Lex Rütten, Jana Kerima Stolzer, Yuri Yefanov

 

Press release

 

A teaspoon of healthy soil contains more microorganisms than there are humans on Earth, and a healthy soil microbiome is increasingly being linked to a healthy human gut flora: soil is not only beneath us, but also within us.

 

Soil, as part of a multitude of interwoven (earth-)realities, comes to the fore above all during global crises — in the struggle over resources, as territory, as a supplier of raw materials. At the same time, its ecological dimension reveals itself when the raw materials run dry and devastated, contaminated areas are left behind.

 

The focus on soil raises the question of the foundation on which a community can grow, in the sense of an equal, solidary, and convivial coexistence. The exhibition Tingling Earth – Schauer unter der Haut der Erde 🔥 is an invitation to reflect on our present, on new realities, and on visions of a future oriented toward the common good.

 

The exhibition understands itself as an open space for discussion, shared learning, practice, and change. Accordingly, workshops will take place shortly before the opening as well as throughout the run, to which the interested public is invited.

 

What potential lies in art to develop practices through which kinships (re)emerge and their structures become visible? On what soil might an ecological union take shape?

 

Building on the exhibition Unheimliche Verschiebungen (Urbane Künste Ruhr), the Künstler*innenhaus Dortmund presents, with Tingling Earth – Schauer unter der Haut der Erde 🔥, a group exhibition that can be understood as an exhibition-within-an-exhibition.

Doing Ecology Otherwise: Pathways for Art and Transdisciplinary Collaboration in Ecosocial Change

 

Coming soon: an exciting International Conference hosted by the Centre for Art and Ecology, Goldsmiths, University of London. Full programme available HERE.
11-12 September 2026

 

Doing Ecology Otherwise addresses the imaginative, sensory, material and embodied capacities of art to address urgent ecological challenges. Drawing on essential insights from Natasha Myers and Lola Olufemi on the potentiality of imagining and acting ‘otherwise’, the conference explores how art can hold space for new understandings, practices, relations and structures of feeling that may be marginalized in mainstream scientific and environmental action.

 

How do contemporary art and artistic research function as what Matthew Fuller calls a ‘meta-discipline’ for transdisciplinary collaboration? What kinds of rituals, practices and inquiries might be needed to understand and process long histories and memories of environmental and social harm? How can artists and their collaborators navigate the overlapping temporalities of ecological grief? How can artistic research build more-than-human networks of solidarity and connection? How can ecology, policymaking and archiving (disciplines, institutions and practices that emerged in the context of imperialism), be re-oriented through creative collaboration to struggles for eco-social justice? What decolonial, feminist and queer methodologies are emerging through art-led transdisciplinary collaboration? From fungi forays, material experimentation and singing composts to embodied memory-work, agropoetics and queer bestiaries, the conference brings together artists, curators, ecologists, soil scientists, researchers and policymakers in transdisciplinary dialogue to engage in the vital work of doing ecology otherwise.

 

Organized and hosted by the Centre for Art and Ecology at Goldsmiths, University of London, in conversation with the British Ecological Society (UK), Celadon Center for Arts and Ecologies (Cyprus), Contemporary Art Archipelago (Finland) and Kafkárna Center for Arts and Ecology UMPRUM (Czech Republic), the conference is a gathering of academic and creative presentations, workshops and performances to present artistic research unfolding across multiple sites across the world.

 

Contributors include:
Adriana Arroyo, Louise Ashcroft, Claire Baily, Paola Bascón, Amálie Bulandrová, Ama Josephine Budge, Frances Cannon, Youngsook Choi, Anna Collin, Louie Destouches, Taru Elfving, Matthew Fuller, Carle Gent, Paul Granjon, Althea Greenan, Gabriel Koureas, Jack Hannam, Esther Lu, Becky Lyon, Elspeth Mitchell, Harun Morrison, Elena Parpa, Lotta Petronella, Eva Koťátková, Ros Gray, Sophie Seita, Chooc Ly Tan, Jol Thoms, Melissa Thompson, Evanthia Tselika, Becca Voelcker, Kateřina Vídenová, Lenka Vráblíková, Rain Wu, Rehana Zaman, Wood Roberdeau.

The United Nations University just published a report on the crazy environmental cost of global Artificial Intelligence deployment, not the most joyous read of the year but very informative and well researched. More evidence that one should think twice before asking chatgeminigroklaude to generate a video of their cat in a space suit flying over a cheese planet populated by rainbow coloured mice for example.

Read the press release HERE, click on the image below for the full report.

 

 

Delivered an 8 days Weird Machine Wrekshop for the KunstFestSpiele Festival in Hannover Germany. It was a great gig with nice peeps and repeat participants, including Fraü Pickard (above) who made several electronic waste sculptures for her home. She also gave us sweets and biscuits to keep staff and participants energised while the Weird Machine grew and grew!

From @centre_for_art_and_ecology

 

On the Spring Equinox at the Art Research Garden and Art & Ecology Laboratory, Goldsmiths University London, organised by CAE members Paul Granjon, Louie Destouches, and Jack Hannam.

 

The workshop opened with barefoot soil sensing, deep listening and chanelling the soil melodies through our humming and vibrating bodies, guided by voice practitioner Natasha Lohan. This was followed by an exploration of how to become human soil sensors, a collective vocal activation with the Singing Compost installation and a picnic in the sun as well as learning about the latest laboratory experiments with Shewanella bacteria.

 

Many rich conversations closed the workshop, touching on the importance of sensory approaches to soil health, the value of semi-informal gatherings and hybrid research formats and the role of small, collective steps in addressing climate anxiety, alongside DIY approaches to both science and art.

 

The workshop was funded by @blackmountainscollege and @britishcouncil as part of the Climate Adaptation for Creatives programme.

 

Images courtesy of @paulgranjon & @emerald_regeneration & @dirt_science

 

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In Manchester on 3rd and 4th December: the 2025 annual conference of the British Society of Soil Science, dedicated to the study of soil in its widest aspects. The conference will include a pop-up exhibition with soil-related artworks by Jo Pearl, Daro Montag, Phil Lambert and myself. We will also discuss our work in an Art and Culture session chaired by eminent soil expert Prof Jack Hannam.

 

Looking forward to an intense soil science injection and enlightening microbial conversations!