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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.


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Marie Mianowski (December 5, 2022). Sensory Ecologies Environmental DialogueS. Sensory Ecologies Environmental DialogueS. Retrieved November 14, 2024 from https://seedsireland.hypotheses.org/1


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