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BEYOND IRELAND

Conference ‘(In)habitabilités’

Université Grenoble Alpes 16-17 septembre 2024

https://maci.univ-grenoble-alpes.fr/fr/actualites/colloque-inhabitabilite-conditions-et-enjeux

Colloque organisé dans le cadre du projet GATES, par Carole Bourne-Taylor de l’Université d’Oxford et Marie Thévenon du laboratoire ILCEA4 de l’UGA.

Le vivant est au cœur de la pensée politique, juridique, philosophique, écologique et artistique. À travers une pluralité d’approches (et de media), nous nous fixons pour but d’enquêter sur les conditions et les enjeux de l’habitabilité (et son pendant dystopique) afin d’enrichir la réflexion sur le vivant et de favoriser l’écoresponsabilité.

Quelles sont les possibilités de reconnexion avec le vivant et de création d’une «écosensibilité» (Baptiste Morizot) ou de «géosolidarités» (Olivier Remaud) afin de mettre en œuvre une habitabilité éthique ? Quels sont les styles, manières, modes, matériaux, voies/voix etc. par lesquels il est possible de repenser notre engagement envers le vivant ? Il s’agit de proposer des visions, voire des solutions, sur ce sujet central et fondamental de l’habitabilité, que ce soit par le biais de la science ou des initiatives citoyennes, de l’image ou du langage : toute pratique, toute pensée est valable.

Seront abordés les thèmes et domaines suivants, entre autres : le droit du vivant, l’habitabilité, l’urbanisme, l’environnement, l’écologie des milieux de montagne, les migrations, l’éco-anxiété/la solastalgie, l’écosensibilité etc.

Avec les interventions de :

Aurélien Barrau (LPSC – CNRS – UGA – Directeur du Centre de Physique Théorique)

Laurent Demanze (centre É.CRI.RE, UMR Litt&Arts)

Cédric Dentant (Parc National des Écrins, Labex ITTEM)

Kirsten Koop (Institut d’Urbanisme et de Géographie Alpine, Labex ITTEM “Innovations et Transitions Territoriales en Montagne”)

Sandra Lavorel (CNRS ; Laboratoire d’Écologie Alpine)

Sabine Lavorel (Centre de Recherches Juridiques)

Patricia Martinerie (Institut des Géosciences de l’Environnement)

Marie Mianowski (UFR SoCLE/ILCEA4)

Coralie Mounet (CNRS ; PACTE) – en collaboration avec Edith Chezel

Anne-Catherine Ohlmann (Fondation UGA ; Fondation internationale Ice Memory)

Christophe Roncato (UFR SoCLE, ILCEA4)

Caroline Rossi et Camille Biros (ILCEA4)

Jean-François Ruault (Laboratoire Ecosystèmes et Sociétés en Montagne (LESSEM), unité de recherche de INRAE)

Marie Thévenon (ILCEA4)

Nicolas Tixier (École Nationale Supérieure d’Architecture de Grenoble, Laboratoire AAU “Ambiances, Architectures, Urbanités)

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Cork

Ellen Hutchins

Marianne LEE A Quiet Tide, Dublin: New Island Books, 2020


Ellen HUTCHINS (1785-1815)
Ireland’s first female botanist and talented botanical artist
Ellen’s story is of a remarkable young woman botanising in a remote and beautiful corner of Ireland – Bantry Bay, West Cork – in the early 1800s, and the legacy she left. In just eight years of botanising, cut short by her death aged 29, Ellen Hutchins discovered many new species, and made a significant contribution to the understanding of seaweeds, lichens, mosses and liverworts.’
(https://ellenhutchins.com/)

Based on the life of Ellen Hutchins, Marianne Lee’s first novel A Quiet Tide immerses readers into the extraordinary intellectual and artistic life of a woman who was long regarded as an ordinary and sickly young lady. In her novel, Marianne Lee bravely recreates Ellen Hutchins’ creative energy, generosity and determination as she challenged her fate in her small corner of the world in Bantry Bay (co. Cork). But Marianne Lee also portrays various ways of embracing the natural world at a time when science meant progress for some, but seemed far apart from vernacular practices and forms of empirical knowledge as experienced by others for centuries. For many reasons which have to do with gender, social norms, or the political context of the time, Ellen Hutchins stood at the intersection between a men’s world and female domesticity, the world of science and the world of mundane down-to-earth daily experience. Marianne Lee’s novel carries readers away into Ellen Hutchins’ world, the variety of her experiences with the more-than-human world, in her garden, by the sea, with the servants in her house, the peasants on the beach as well as with famous scientists of the time.

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Non classé

ECOZON@ ISSUE

https://ecozona.eu/issue/view/202
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Non classé

Sparking Thoughts

Podcast

Sparking Thoughts is a podcast by the Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown County Council Arts Office, hosted by art writer and independent curator Diana Bamimeke.

https://www.dlrcoco.ie/gallery-learning-programme/sparking-thoughts-podcast
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Clare MUNSTER

Hostile Territory

Exhibition & symposium

EXHIBITION

Hostile Territory

(Between inside and out)

Works from 2015–present by Ashley Hunt

Burren Annual Exhibition 2023

September 14 – October 13 2023

Opening Reception : Thurs Sept 14 from 6-8pm

Gallery Hours: Mon-Fri 9:30am-5:00pm

Hostile Territory (Between inside and out)

Burren Annual Symposium 2023

Wednesday, September 13, 2.00 – 5.00pm

Lecture Hall | Burren College of Art campus in person

and virtually on Zoom:

Join Zoom Meeting

https://us02web.zoom.us/j/85664845548?pwd=K296QThES1F0azBoSGVJRXVpclNDdz09

Meeting ID: 856 6484 5548

Passcode: 780262

contact@burrencollege.ie | +353 (0)65 7077200

The Burren Annual is supported by funding from the Arts Office at Clare County Council.

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Call for contributions

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Call for papers
Sharing Agricultural and Gardening Cultures in Ireland : Writers and Artists

In Ireland, as is the case elsewhere, several artists and writers have drawn inspiration from the gardens they tended and gained insight from the patience and the awareness of weather variations required by gardening and agriculture. The harvesting of crops or kelp as well as the cutting of turf became artistic motifs suggesting both a harmonious link with nature and a utilitarian approach of the local landscape. Land Art has placed artists on different pathways, inviting them to develop a sensitive relation with the sites and to pay greater attention to the materiality of the landscape. If land artists have seldom represented people working the land, their interventions nonetheless entailed field work : all manners of harvesting or collecting, preparing the ground or shaping the land. Climate emergency nowadays spurs artists to envision the landscape in an increasingly decentered way and to elaborate responsible and ethical practices. Irish history and the trauma induced by the Great Famine give much salience to the issues of subsistance addressed by many contemporary visual artists and writers concerned with the sustainability of agriculture and food security. Community gardens, participatory projects often involving artists, are opportunities to change eating behaviours, to pass on knowledge, including gestures, to think in the long term and to revitalize local communities. Shared gardening is often keyed to activism. The organisation of shared meals, an artistic proposal indebted to both performance and participatory art, places the artist in the midst of social life. Contributors may therefore probe how the status of the artist is transformed when s.he replaces culture in the social field. They may also focus on the networks that proliferate around these practices. 

Growing food or plants, as some writers or artists do, also allows for metaphors as seeding, rooting, breeding rhizomes, transplanting, grafting or cutting refer to technical know-hows but equally operate on a metaphorical level. Agriculture necessitates tools and requires some expertise and technical knowledge which artists or writers often evoke or experiment with, in some cases collaboratively. The experimental nature of artistic / agricultural practices is correlated to its transformative potential. International artists such as Rirkrit Tiravanija, who founded The Land Foundation (1996), or Rem Koolhaas, who authored a manifesto revaluing rurality, advocate committed, socially engaged practices. In literature as well, several contemporary texts evoking gardens, fields or shores convey a sense of materiality through experimentation (Sara Baume, Claire-Louise Bennett), suggesting that reconsidering the man/non-human divide requires new literary forms of writing. 

Another aspect worth investigating is the exhibition of organic matter, materials or plants in the gallery, which introduces living organisms in the white cube and requires care. Man’s responsibility for and power over the non-human is thereby interrogated. Similar shifts in attitudes may be observed in rewilding projects or new agricultural practices. New adapted curatorial strategies may be implemented when art projects grow outside the conventional spaces of the studio or gallery. 

Artists or writers cultivating the land often invite us to reconsider the relation between the urban and the rural. We invite contributors to consider the increasing presence of artists living in rural areas and how it shapes practices : regrounding art in the soil, displacing culture from the gallery into the field may indeed incite us to re-evaluate the creative potential nestled in non-urban places.
Of interest is also the changing characterization of literary genres when gardening manuals grow into activist writing or when garden writing subtly morphs into more intimate texts (diaries, journal, logbook, letters). How field work and digital tools for communication intersect is also worth scrutinizing. 

The proposals (500 words are expected) must be sent to Marie Mianowski, Professor at Université Grenoble Alpes (email: marie.mianowski@univ-grenoble-alpes.fr) and Valérie Morisson, senior lecturer at the Université de Bourgogne (valeriemorisson@gmail.com) by 15 May 2023 They must be accompanied by a short bio-bibliographical note. The contributions may be research articles, interviews or critical analyses of practices. Once the proposal accepted, the final texts will be sent by 30 November 2023 The publication is due in 2024. It will be released with the scientific support of GIS EIRE. 

Appel à articles pour publication 2024 projet SEEDS
Cultures Partagées en Irlande : écrivains et artistes agriculteurs ou jardiniers

            En Irlande comme ailleurs, plusieurs artistes et écrivains se sont inspirés des jardins qu’ils cultivaient parfois simplement dans un rapport subtil à leur art, nourris de la patience et de la disponibilité aux variations climatiques dont jardiniers et agriculteurs doivent savoir faire preuve. Les travaux des champs, l’exploitation de la tourbe ou bien la récolte du varech ont longtemps été des motifs picturaux et littéraires qui évoquent un lien harmonieux avec la nature mais également une approche utilitaire de l’environnement. Le Land Art a conduit les artistes sur de nouveaux terrains et induit un rapport sensible au site ainsi qu’une attention renouvelée à la matérialité du paysage. Si cette forme n’a que rarement figuré l’être humain travaillant dans le paysage, elle supposait néanmoins des pratiques de collecte, de terrassement, de mises en forme de la nature. L’urgence écologique incite aujourd’hui de nombreux artistes à approcher le paysage d’une manière décentrée et à développer des pratiques artistiques responsables et éthiques. L’histoire irlandaise et le traumatisme induit par la Grande Famine donnent un poids particulier aux questions de subsistance qu’abordent de nombreux artistes et écrivains contemporains préoccupés par les questions de la soutenabilité des cultures et de l’autonomie alimentaire. Les jardins communautaires, des projets participatifs et publics impliquant souvent des artistes, sont l’occasion d’inciter de nouveaux comportements alimentaires, de transmettre des gestes, d’envisager un temps long et de faire communauté localement. La pratique du jardinage collectif est fréquemment associée au militantisme ou à l’activisme. L’organisation de repas partagés, une forme artistique oscillant entre la performance et l’art participatif, permet de placer l’artiste au cœur de la vie sociale. On pourra s’interroger sur la transformation du statut de l’artiste ou écrivain quand il replace la culture dans les champs et dans le champ social. On pourra aussi étudier les réseaux qui se tissent grâce à ces nouvelles pratiques. 

L’agriculture, pratiquée sur le terrain par plusieurs artistes et écrivains, fournit aussi des métaphores : ensemencement, enracinement, rhizomes, transplantations, greffes ou boutures sont autant de gestes pratiques qui opèrent également de manière métaphorique. L’agriculture nécessite des outils ou des technologies, des savoirs agricoles ou des techniques que les artistes et écrivains évoquent et expérimentent souvent de manière interdisciplinaire et collaborative. La dimension expérimentale des pratiques artistiques / agricoles est liée à la possibilité d’agir sur le monde. Des artistes internationaux tels que Rirkrit Tiravanija, instigateur de The Land Foundation (1996), ou Rem Koolhaas, auteur d’un manifeste qui réhabilite la ruralité, revendiquent des praxis engagées et des projets artistiques utiles. Dans le domaine littéraire, plusieurs textes contemporains rendent compte de la matérialité du jardin ou du terrain agricole en expérimentant avec la forme littéraire (Sara Baume, Claire-Louise Bennett), comme si l’écriture des rapports entre humains et non-humains exigeait que de nouvelles formes littéraires soient envisagées. 

Dans le domaine des arts visuels on notera que l’exposition de matières organiques, de plants ou plantes introduit la nature sensible et vivante dans l’espace artificiel de la galerie et nécessite des soins. C’est ainsi la responsabilité de l’homme et son pouvoir sur le non-humain qui sont interrogés. Des stratégies curatoriales nouvelles peuvent être mises en place lorsque l’art se cultive en dehors de la galerie. De changements de paradigmes comparables peuvent être observés dans les projets de ré- ensauvagement ou des pratiques agricoles moins interventionnistes. 

Par ailleurs, l’artiste ou l’écrivain agriculteur invite à repenser le rapport entre les zones urbaines et les zones rurales. Nous souhaiterions examiner de plus près l’évolution de l’implantation des artistes et écrivains dans des lieux non-urbains : réimplanter l’art dans le sol, déplacer la culture de la galerie dans les champs peut en effet nous inciter à ré-évaluer le potentiel créatif des zones non-urbaines. 

Nous invitons également les contributeurs à aborder l’évolution des genres littéraires lorsque le manuel de jardinage devient ouvrage militant ou que l’espace d’écriture sur le jardin se prolonge dans le journal intime, la correspondance, le carnet de jardin. L’articulation du terrain à des formes de communication numériques mérite aussi notre attention. 

Les propositions de contributions, de 500 mots environ, sont à envoyer à Marie Mianowski (email : marie.mianowski@univ-grenoble-alpes.fr ) et Valérie Morisson (valeriemorisson@gmail.com) avant le 15 mai 2023. Elles doivent être accompagnées d’une courte notice bio-bibliographique. Les contributions peuvent prendre la forme d’articles de recherche, d’entretiens ou de compte-rendu de pratiques. Une fois la proposition accepté, les textes sont attendus pour le 30 novembre 2023. La publication est prévue pour 2024. Elle bénéficiera du soutien scientifique du GIS EIRE. 

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Wexford

Mary Reynolds

“I have come full circle with garden and landscape design. Now I want you to give any land under your care back to nature, to re-wild, to be ‘ARKed’ with Acts of Restorative Kindness to the earth.” Mary Reynolds, reformed landscape designer, guardian, founder of “We are the ARK”

https://marymary.ie

Mary Reynolds lives and works in County Wexford on the farm where she grew up, where she has decided to give back most of the land to nature and grow food on the rest. This personal move is part of a wider movement she initiated, called ‘We are the ARK’, which she describes on https://wearetheark.org and in her latest book published by Timber Press in 2022.

We are the ARK by Mary Reynolds https://www.workman.com/products/we-are-the-ark/hardback?_ga=2.113929479.160959283.1677665001-1469214.1677665001

I am grateful to Mary Reynolds for sharing some of her time with me. The conversation we had in April 2022 is now published as “A Conversation with Mary Reynolds” in Etudes irlandaises (Marie Mianowski, « A Conversation with Mary Reynolds », Études irlandaises, 47-2 | 2022, 133-141.) https://doi.org/10.4000/etudesirlandaises.13518

Mary Reynold’s We are the ARK https://wearetheark.org

Mary Reynolds is also the author of The Garden Awakening (2016) https://marymary.ie/book-the-garden-awakening

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Non classé

Sensory Ecologies Environmental DialogueS

SEEDS : Sensory Ecologies and Environmental Dialogues in Ireland
Creation and preservation of corpus for researchers and students working on the links between agro-ecology and literature and the arts in Ireland.
In Ireland, as in other parts of the world, artists and writers have been inspired by the gardens they grow. Working in the fields, digging the bog or harvesting kelp have long been pictorial and literary motifs. Although this form has rarely depicted human beings actually tilling the land, it nevertheless implied practices of collecting, digging or pruning. Today, the ecological emergency encourages many artists to work the land in a different manner and to develop responsible and ethical artistic practices. The experimental dimension of artistic / agricultural practices is linked to the possibility of acting upon the world. Furthermore, farmer artists or writers invite us to reassess the relationship between urban and rural areas.
In this Carnet we want to look more closely at how artists and writers in non-urban Ireland have been changing places and practices. Contributions may take the form of articles, interviews, reviews, annotated photographs or maps, audio and/or visual material. Human relationships with the non-human will be explored through five themes.

  1. Between taxonomy and imagination: an interdisciplinary approach to plants (botanists and writers, poets, visual artists).
  2. Circulations: An interdisciplinary work on nomadic plants vs. endemic species; plants and folklore, plants imaginary and local or national identity; the question of constituted and claimed plant heritage: natural history, botanical painting, heritage of the landscape and plant rights; plants in the prism of colonialism: idea of the plantatiocene (Haraway and Tsing)
  3. Subsistence/resistance: through a temporal/historical approach to plants (e.g. the Irish famine); culture and agriculture; collaborations between artists and scientists.
  4. Plant ontology: ‘The vegetal turn’: plasticity and adaptability of plants; metaphors of cutting, grafting, plants and the ethics of care; the question of the wild and the domestic, rewilding and the imaginary of plant invasion.
  5. Germinating new models: Agro-ecology, self-production, greening the city; community gardens: revitalising the commons; arts, literature and activism: “the transformative potentialities of art”, experimentation and transferability of solutions, decolonial correspondences.

AIMS: In order to collect corpuses for students and researchers:

1. Preservation of interviews conducted in Ireland with artists in their communities in the context of adapting their agricultural practices to climate change

2. Preservation of a new type of sound, visual and body archives on walking and working focusing on orality and performance.

3. The Carnet will be organized at the scale of Irish regions on an interactive geographical map to access the collected corpus on a local rather than a national scale.