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Does viewing the natural world through human eyes limit our understanding? How can we imagine beyond linear time, and human viewpoints? And what could we learn from these different perspectives? Join Rebecca Beinart for a conversation with Maya Chowdhry and Wallace Heim to hear about their work and their responses to these questions.
This conversation will consider the connections between local landscapes and global questions, including conservation, land access and climate justice. We will explore personal encounters with landscape, more-than-human perspectives, and thinking through deep and ‘slippery’ time.
The event will begin with some readings and then move into a discussion with a Q&A session. If you have any questions about access please contact Rebecca: rbeinart(at)hotmail.com
This event is part of a Desire Lines, a place-based art commission at Crow Park in Keswick with Trust New Art, the National Trust’s programme of contemporary arts. Through the project Rebecca Beinart is working with local communities to explore the site’s history and everyday uses, to collectively build stories for the future.
For more information on Desire Lines project please visit the project page
Contributors:
Maya Chowdhry is an artist and writer who creates immersive and democratic experiences for participants, drawing on radio, poetry, installation, video and online. Her practice interrogates themes of food sovereignty, world water scarcity and climate justice. Her book ‘Fossil’ (Peepal Tree Press, 2016) explores the impact of human activity on climate change though a decolonial lens and from the perspective of all life on earth. The collection takes its subject seriously through a playful testing of language. Voices of plants, trees, fossils, rocks, bodies of water and creatures speak about the human impacts on our planet.
Wallace Heim writes, researches and makes art in the lively zones where culture, art and performance meet the more-than-human. Her academic slant is philosophical, reflecting on how new forms of ecological experience and understanding can take shape through the arts. She also writes fiction. ‘the sea cannot be depleted’ is a performed audio piece about the Solway Estuary, the changing senses of that place and what lies beneath the water’s surface. Her exhibition of sculpture, x=2140, explored what it means to care for contaminated land in West Cumbria. Wallace lives in the South Lakes.
