Developed through a residency at Walthamstow Wetlands Centre, Myths for a Wetlands Imaginary is a performative inquiry into global wetlands loss and an exploration of resistant wetland imaginaries, in collaboration with Arts Catalyst
The project considers approaches to the ecological crisis that has led to the loss of up to 75% of the world’s wetlands, against the backdrop of Walthamstow Wetlands. Through a collective process of producing maps, stories and myths, the artists wish to develop a ‘global wetlands imaginary’ as an ecological imaginative space for human and non-human co-existence, and as a metaphor for new forms of multispecies solidarity.
The project builds on ;a place, of their own.’s work with Arts Catalyst exploring ideas of decolonisation, borders, geopower and extraction.
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We are happy to be devising and hosting a performative walk around the post-extraction landscape of Orgreave and Treeton for Arts Catalyst as part of their New View: Recentring Attention programme before they move to Sheffield in 2020.
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Our film ‘The Territories of Eile Experiment #3’ (tryptic shown on single-screen) screening at 12.30pm Sat 20 July at the Departure Lounge Festival 2019
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Great thanks to Alessandra Cianetti for the chance to discuss The Eile Project and our practice on the Performing Borders platform, alongside some wonderful artists and work.
;a place, of their own. Performing Borders interview
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We are excited to be presenting The Eile Project at this conference in June in Dublin, there are some fantastic keynotes including Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing, Una Chaudhury and Monika Bakke. While we problematise the term Anthropocene, these are urgent and important debates.
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We recently presented our paper Border Field/Spatial Apparatuses in The Eile Project at the Field Conditions AIARG conference at The Dublin School of Architecture.
We also enjoyed another meeting at the Marble Arch Geopark, with whom we are developing an exciting project with across the geological landscape and in the cross-border cave system. More information on this to follow soon on The Eile Project pages.
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a place of their own are delighted to be running one of the labs at the Social Art Summit in Sheffield 1st/2nd November 18. www.socialartsummit.com
Family Entanglements seeks to explore through an active workshop based on the game Cat's Cradle,
a) How might the 'family' be a site of resistance to dominant ideologies as well as of imagining collective alternative futures, through different kinds of collectivity, by thinking beyond 'family' to kinship / more than human / non-biologically based conceptions.
b) how living with and raising children, and the various relations and encounters that are enabled, creates the potential for criticality, radicality and resistance, and how it might offer ways to think about alternative futures in the face of economic, social and environmental crisis, and what kinds of artistic practice are enabled.
We will be presenting The Eile Project at the Dublin School of Architecture in January, as part of the ALL-IRELAND ARCHITECTURE RESEARCH GROUP 2019 Conference, Field Conditions.
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We will be taking part in the Urbanism at Borders event (the first session of the Interdisciplinary Global Workshop for Research Network) in Aberdeen in September.
We will use The Eile Project as a starting point to think through alternative urbanisms of the border, traversing disciplinary boundaries between art and urbanism.
We are looking forward to discussing The Eile Project at the AVBODY symposium on June 11/12th in Huddersfield.
https://urbanresearchtheater.com/avbody/
