How Artists Describe Plants by Joseph Walsh

The live sessions for this course will be given on Tuesday June 20, 27, July 04 & 11, 2023, each day from 4 – 6 pm (Berlin time). You will also receive an email reminder for each video conference before it takes place.

“Embracing an ecological consciousness will involve shifting away from human-centred concerns in order to admit other actors/consciousnesses, such as the environment, plants, soil, and the earth as a living system. Applying artistic methods to the relationship with nature can make thinkable otherwise ‘alien’ epistemologies. In the sessions of this course we will be undertaking activities and excercises that create ways of looking at nature. Alongside this we will engage with art, writing, and artefacts which describe understandings of human beings’ relationship(s) to nature. Topics that will be discussed will include: animist thinking, non-human time, notions of the self in relation to plants, and forms of storytelling that gives natural phenomena a cogent sense of ‘personhood’. An online forum will be active over the course where participants can engage and share work, receive feedback from the course instructor and consider an observation-led process.”
Text & photo by courtesy of Joseph Walsh

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Enroll now as seats are limited: Min. seats: 5 | Max. seats: 30 | Language: English