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Borders
Borders Intro
Eile
Border-Fictions Special Issue
Counter-Cartography
Amid the Air and Earth
Amid the Air and Earth Intro
Atmospheric States
Stories of the Air / Spéirscéalta
Myths for a Wetlands Imaginary
Wet / Land / Dwellers
Geopower
Geopower Intro
Self-Organisation Against Injustice
Eile
Kin
Kin Intro
Becoming Animal
24
Dolls Play
FAN
a place of their own is the art + spatial research practice of Paula McCloskey and Sam Vardy. Through art and spatial practice, we interrogate and propose within entanglements of climate, capital, technology and politics. We operate as a collective, a couple, with our children, and through collaborations with others.
Myths for a Wetlands Imaginary
Started in 2019, Myths for a Wetlands Imaginary is an ongoing project that engages with the global ecological habitat of wetlands to collaboratively explore new imaginaries of co-existence. Wetlands, and the marshes, bogs, fens, reedbeds and reefs that make them up, tell complex stories of relationships of land and peoples, of settler colonialism, and of the capitalist and carbon imaginaries that have seen 70% of wetlands across the world destroyed in the last 50 years.
We foreground the sharing and production of myth (a mythopoesis) as a method through which to draw together distinct experiences and knowlegdes of wetlands and to open up historically situated new wetlands imaginaries; with ecologists, writers, artists and communities.
The work has been developed with Arts Catalyst, initially for Waltham Forest Borough Council Art Assembly in 2019, and now (21/22) as part of their Emergent Ecologies strand in Shire Brook Valley / Woodhouse Washlands (Sheffield/Rotherham).
Myths at Walthamstow Wetlands
Waltham Forest Borough Council, Art Assembly, 2019
Waltham Forest Borough Council, Art Assembly, 2019
Myths at Shire Brook Valley / Woodhouse Washlands
Arts Catalyst Emergent Ecologies
Arts Catalyst Emergent Ecologies