https://journalofartandecology.com Journal of Art & Ecology Tue, 06 Dec 2022 16:29:11 +0000 https://journalofartandecology.com en https://journalofartandecology.com/Home Wed, 09 Nov 2022 14:54:04 +0000 Journal of Art & Ecology https://journalofartandecology.com/Home The Journal of Art &amp; Ecology is the online publication platform of the MA Art &amp; Ecology at Goldsmiths.Each annual edition presents creative practice and critical reflection on the artistic research of the graduating cohort. <img width="1120" height="1596" width_o="1120" height_o="1596" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/d4d33dbe44beeb947e3a32774a93878b784b757db3efb672e260e671fd8e59d5/_Cover_Project-Journal_Reg_2025_EDIT-DEC.jpg" data-mid="241280279" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/d4d33dbe44beeb947e3a32774a93878b784b757db3efb672e260e671fd8e59d5/_Cover_Project-Journal_Reg_2025_EDIT-DEC.jpg" />Volume 4: December 2025 <img width="1120" height="1596" width_o="1120" height_o="1596" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/01d2a95bc9861ab6053cd730dbbbd851c6da35b026cf15a7caf7e23e97e5be15/Cover_300_SM_Vol3_111.jpg" data-mid="222572405" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/01d2a95bc9861ab6053cd730dbbbd851c6da35b026cf15a7caf7e23e97e5be15/Cover_300_SM_Vol3_111.jpg" />Volume 3: December 2024 <img width="1120" height="1581" width_o="1120" height_o="1581" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/ae986152b49e82ef63412940821608a7d404562eb84ea1feefc1fc70dd8576f0/Cover_300_Font1.png" data-mid="198192949" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/ae986152b49e82ef63412940821608a7d404562eb84ea1feefc1fc70dd8576f0/Cover_300_Font1.png" /> Volume 2: December 2023 <img width="2480" height="3508" width_o="2480" height_o="3508" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/0a1eded5691c13ed2d6460b4610d45a1ae9a4f846b820431ae947bb4253c7402/Journal-Cover--FINAL.jpg" data-mid="161692794" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/0a1eded5691c13ed2d6460b4610d45a1ae9a4f846b820431ae947bb4253c7402/Journal-Cover--FINAL.jpg" /> Volume 1: December 2022 Events: <img width="2582" height="3650" width_o="2582" height_o="3650" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/88f263c734f6e850722f2595691e48997cf06a436bb3b61e115fc3fbc703ee17/CAA_Cover-website.jpg" data-mid="171101298" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/88f263c734f6e850722f2595691e48997cf06a436bb3b61e115fc3fbc703ee17/CAA_Cover-website.jpg" />Spectres in Change: Site-Senstive Art-Science Research in the Archipelago Sea Symposium 13.02.23 The MA Art &amp; Ecology is a fifteen-month studio-based postgraduate programme for emerging artists who engage in meaningful and transformative ways with the most pressing ecological questions of our time. From its location in South East London, it seeks to develop new ways in which contemporary art can make interventions in a wide range of ecological contexts and expand the ways in which ecology is understood. Further information about the programme and how to apply can be found here. https://journalofartandecology.com/Volume-1 Wed, 09 Nov 2022 16:31:14 +0000 Journal of Art & Ecology https://journalofartandecology.com/Volume-1 Volume 1 https://journalofartandecology.com/Introduction Tue, 06 Dec 2022 13:42:18 +0000 Journal of Art & Ecology https://journalofartandecology.com/Introduction An Ecology of Many Worlds Over fifteen months of the MA Art &amp; Ecology, this first cohort have developed compelling bodies of artistic work and deep understandings of how ecological thought is situated, historical and embodied. While the ‘Man’ centred within imperial ecology still looms large in mainstream environmentalism, the sensibilities that emerge here are migratory, queer, feminist, working-class, butch, sensitive and enraged. There is a striving to decolonise, to heal and reconnect, grounded in awareness that the commons is not only that which historically has been marginalised or dispossessed, but that it encompasses the planetary commons – earth, water, air – that binds us all. Commoning, therefore, is understood as a fundamentally contemporary strategy of survival and flourishing – to be found in recipes passed across generations, in folklore re-animated with a flash of neon, in digital dissemination and forms of occulture. While informed by a pluriverse of theory, there is a profound attention to the somatic and the everyday, to fermenting transformations that hone sensory acuteness and call for new descriptions of the sensorial world. The artists gathered here recognise artistic materials not only as political in relation to the human labour involved in their production, but also in terms of their sustainability and cultural significance. They have investigated the extent to which the entities that materials derive from – be it mineral, animal or plant – are gathered with care and reciprocity, recalling Robin Wall Kimmerer’s account of the ‘honourable harvest’, or are manufactured through systems of extraction enabled by a colonial mindset. Material afterlives is a crucial theme, and understanding how, as Max Liboiron argues, pollution is colonialism, has been essential. There are difficult reckonings with inheritance – who benefits? who is dispossessed? what are the possibilities for justice given enduring inequities? But afterlives can take other paths to denaturalise extractivism, with practices of investigation, attention, gleaning and repurposing that may enact a re-enchantment, focus attention on what has been lost, or imagine how things might be otherwise. Might a product made from timber be understood to retain within it the spirit of a tree? As the sixth extinction unfolds, these artists find themselves using their creative powers to reimagine relations with the more-than-human world, to rage but also to organise, to recognise the resistance of matter and the power of joy, to hold a space for that which does not speak, to whisper with ghosts and dragons. Ros Gray Programme Director, MA Art &amp; Ecology Back https://journalofartandecology.com/Fatima-Alaiwat Wed, 09 Nov 2022 16:40:52 +0000 Journal of Art & Ecology https://journalofartandecology.com/Fatima-Alaiwat &nbsp; &nbsp; Fatima Alaiwat <img width="6759" height="6876" width_o="6759" height_o="6876" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/b2220779632bfa01c0b4707dedb3d142b28dfbde59586847116be707c2dc611b/Title-image-with-bg.png" data-mid="160713871" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/b2220779632bfa01c0b4707dedb3d142b28dfbde59586847116be707c2dc611b/Title-image-with-bg.png" /> &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; compos[t]ing rhythms with bokashi Over the past year, I have developed a bokashi practice - a method of fermentation-composting - centred around the composting of orange peels. This has involved being enveloped in various transmutations and intoxicating citrusy events. My contributions to this process have included ripping fresh peels into the bin layered with bokashi bran, burying fermented peels in soil, and attuning my senses to the wafting scents of hot soil, fungal aromas and decayed oranges. Performing the various tasks needed to sustain the bokashi released worlds of ‘sensory events’ that ruptured and permeated my home space - like the arrival of guests or seasons that would last for days or weeks in various volumes - my awareness dipping in and out with their shifts and intensities. The image above represents a compilation of sensory events, constituting a host of entangled, overlapping, tangential and spiralling connections. With the awareness &nbsp;that ‘what soil is thought to be affects the ways in which it is cared for, and vice versa, modes of care have effects in what soils become’ (Bellacasa 2017, 170), I question how sensory intimacy with composting might serve as a way to lay down, cultivate and transform stories of belonging, whilst also practically improving the quality of soils that physically nourish our bodies. The composting process is one that involves constant tinkering and amending: much like a recipe yet, in the case of bokashi, it is never complete. As a regenerative process, bokashi exists in constant cyclical rhythms. When the bokashi soil became too wet, I added cardboard and leaves. When there were too many pot worms, I added egg shells. The more we are required to tinker, the more we extend knowledge and experience, with potentially transformative effects on how we relate to waste, materiality and the spaces we inhabit. This continuous practice invites us to think about human engagement as a part of nature. There is no outcome, but a continuous process of seeking balance. This embodies a key modality in my practice: a fascination for exploring dynamics of cyclical activations within the everyday, relating with our biological survival. This has continued to guide me towards the realms of the intimate, somatic, sensuous and body-centred ‘re/skilling’, as both practical and poetic modalities for exploring belonging and healing - or rather, ‘harm reduction’ (Kinnunen 2021) for alienated bodies, as well as quieter modes of resistance in the face of geopolitical issues and environmental crises. Sandor Katz suggests that one of the most damaging aspects of our dominant food system is that it ‘deskills and disempowers peoples, distancing us from the natural world and making us completely dependent on systems of mass production and distribution’ (Katz 2020, 18). Optimistically, I question if cultivating more body-centred senses of belonging reskills us in earth-based epistemologies, that feel pertinent to building resilience in the face of environmental crises and fragile global food systems. Slowly, we ferment radical intimate relations with and in the homogenous and global. Intimacy is an important and grounding aspect of my working process. I investigate how non-normative bonds with the more-than-human might facilitate accessible polycultures of knowledge, and provide alternative approaches to climate justice to that of the technocratic and scientific, despite dispossession. In his essay On Intimacy with Soils, Devon Peña talks about how his grandmother’s relationship with soil ‘encouraged are-membering of the body by means of affiliation with the land’ (Peña 2019, 277) and allowed her ‘to develop a deeper, more relational sense of place…[and] sense of partnership with the soil despite being far removed from any ancestral lands’ (Peña 2019, 277-278). When land is not owned and/or not home; how might we facilitate connection through caring for earth? I wish cultivating intimacy within small-scale, domestic composting as a way to foster a form of access and connection to land for alienated bodies, with the view that ‘the opposite of dispossession is not possession. It is not an accumulation. It is unforgetting. It is mattering’ (Morrill et al. 2016, 2). How can mattering be understood through bokashi as we reclaim soil relations through co-production in our home? To be intimate with waste and microorganisms, as I propose with bokashi, opens a particular territory of reconfiguring relations with industrial food systems and the non-human, as a way to ‘craft new imaginaries for knowing, living and being with waste’ (Kinnunen 2021, 79). Caring for waste and, furthermore, sharing space in the home resists attitudes of ‘distance, disposability, and denial’ (Hawkins 2006, 16). How can this offer a way to shift understanding of belonging withand as part of nature, rather than within human social structures - particularly when social structures are ‘hostile to any attempt to put the individual back where he belonged’ (Fanon 1964, 53)? How can a better representation and reverence for embodied knowledges serve to resist dominant capitalist, consumerist, colonial structures by seeking to attune with other forms of knowing, living, relating and learning? I question how ‘bring[ing] cognition down to earth’ (Mol 2021, 28) might better address complex issues that stem from such structures, by seeking to get closer to embodied and non-verbal forms of human intelligence. I do not propose this as a direct alternative to cognitive and intellectual modalities, but rather to think with how ‘the intellectual monoculture of science will be replaced with a polyculture of complementary knowledges’ (Kimmerer 2013, 139). I wish to connect these words with the sensory events shared in the initial image compilation. Through personal experiences of living with bokashi in my home, I examine the intersection of probiotic, composting and embodied methodologies. Though the events were varied and extended to broadly embodied relationships, for the purpose of this writing, I focus primarily on scent and touch, as predominant features of living and relating with bokashi. rip orange peels and layer in the bin sensing scents fractured re/collections <img width="2306" height="1294" width_o="2306" height_o="1294" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/869b473858ec21932b91363ccf16e64c9db5be80ebdc734545f0d309fe7186fe/3-1.png" data-mid="160713784" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/869b473858ec21932b91363ccf16e64c9db5be80ebdc734545f0d309fe7186fe/3-1.png" /> <img width="2306" height="1294" width_o="2306" height_o="1294" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/bca22db95617634477d764a4b797235ac582f9469daa5274d660a34d8980191e/3-2.png" data-mid="160713785" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/bca22db95617634477d764a4b797235ac582f9469daa5274d660a34d8980191e/3-2.png" /> <img width="2306" height="1294" width_o="2306" height_o="1294" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/01b68dff5a4dbb589a39581e669e56935e9f77bfc43afe5f18a5ea6ded8113ac/3-3.png" data-mid="160713786" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/01b68dff5a4dbb589a39581e669e56935e9f77bfc43afe5f18a5ea6ded8113ac/3-3.png" /> <img width="2306" height="1294" width_o="2306" height_o="1294" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/997f6cf5c131aab865909b299abf20a9863e34503681cc049b1211bc0999e3ce/3-4.png" data-mid="160713790" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/997f6cf5c131aab865909b299abf20a9863e34503681cc049b1211bc0999e3ce/3-4.png" /> <img width="2306" height="1294" width_o="2306" height_o="1294" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/e8dd1f7b8769fc9dab979ee43178b1882cf7c1ab0fe7190e5c771795ca3d8305/3-5.png" data-mid="160713795" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/e8dd1f7b8769fc9dab979ee43178b1882cf7c1ab0fe7190e5c771795ca3d8305/3-5.png" /> Ripping orange peels to layer in the bin was a deeply energising sensory event. The oils erupted visibly as mist - softly drenching my body and surrounding elements in fresh zesty notes and gentle moist landings. The smell of citrus invoked for me very&nbsp; potent memories of an ‘elsewhere past’ (Chariandy 2007, 813), of particular people and places. I reflect on what it might mean to process particular foods and ingredient combinations when making bokashi, as one would with a recipe. As anyone who has had a cold can attest to, it is smell that mostly gives food its taste. To this end, a recipe or dish could be viewed as a curation of smell. How can this intense engagement with scent be translated to the context of curating waste smell with bokashi? Could living with a particular, augmenting smell, one that has a resonance with a practitioner’s cultural memory, serve as a way to cultivate belonging? In The Politics of Taste and Smell: Palestinian Rites of Return,&nbsp; Ben-Ze'ev, Efrat discusses how ‘being able to make Msakhan everywhere you go has become a way of remaining Palestinian’ (Ben-Ze'ev 2004, 153). Though making certain foods has powerful associations with connecting people to cultures and home, I question how this applies in the context of waste. Unlike a fresh meal, which is ephemeral upon consumption, bokashi waste stays in the home. The waste is fermented and then buried, making the smells both ephemeral and lingering. I question how the smells of rot, decay and unprocessed ingredients of a particular recipe might capture the pain and potentiality of surviving and continuity in adversity. How might viewing bokashi practice as a mode of ‘cooking’ enable new ways of ‘recreating the features of a place to which one cannot return’ (Ben-Ze'ev, 153)? As fermented smells change, it is also a context that can push one to relating with smell in transit and transformation - a process in creating, changing and letting go. I’m interested in how such ephemeral and lingering practices can channel cultural memory. <img width="2538" height="3648" width_o="2538" height_o="3648" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/2c46b0f4ea52b26caea768dad6e3b1f896b3a88f09b5e6788cf4392ce552c5e2/4-1.jpg" data-mid="160751126" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/2c46b0f4ea52b26caea768dad6e3b1f896b3a88f09b5e6788cf4392ce552c5e2/4-1.jpg" /> <img width="2538" height="3648" width_o="2538" height_o="3648" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/e222d1396f6e1836072cdcfab7f4c6f68204dd7350e4f661e1fcc347eeef9581/4-2.jpg" data-mid="160751127" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/e222d1396f6e1836072cdcfab7f4c6f68204dd7350e4f661e1fcc347eeef9581/4-2.jpg" /> <img width="3024" height="4032" width_o="3024" height_o="4032" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/a4dd627e9d6d64ac81521222b94607692e9b4f2b72465e4f327185fbf6e4b40d/4-3.JPG" data-mid="160751128" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/a4dd627e9d6d64ac81521222b94607692e9b4f2b72465e4f327185fbf6e4b40d/4-3.JPG" /> To think further with notions of cultural memory, I engage with the idea of collecting waste over time, and how that might relate to recollection of memory. Initially, with my bokashi oranges, the familiar citrus scents invited fresh memories to coexist in my space: of Moroccan desserts, places, groves and street carts. As the fermentation process developed, these fresh familiar scents gradually began to take strange forms and I experienced them as ‘neither remnant, document, nor relic of the past, nor floating in a present cut off from the past’, but rather ‘links the past to the present and future’ (Bal 1999, vii). How might recreating smells within transformative practices create new assemblages that can help facilitate belonging as an alien body? sprinkle bokashi bran like dusting a table to roll dough ways of touchingmuscle, memory fluid barriersall that is alive I use my hands directly to feel the bokashi process when layering the waste and bokashi bran, then press it well to ensure there is no air. Afterwards I experience a tingling sensation in my hands. The bokashi bran creates a reaction in my skin that causes my hands to tingle, what feels like an echo of the touching process lasting long after I’ve stopped touching the bokashi. Touch is a powerful set of sensory experiences, with our fingers containing a significant amount of nerve endings that can sense a variety of different forms of touch: ‘some nerve endings recognise itch, others vibration, pain, pressure and texture. And one exists solely to recognise a gentle stroking touch’ (Cocozza 2018). How can developing more nuanced knowledges of touch, as well as touching more often, foster a body-centred sense of connection to place and belonging? How does becoming physically entangled with a process through hands, rather than tools, offer a more connected experience and thus sense of belonging? In The Body Keeps the Score, Van Der Kolk discusses the notion of ‘sensory insensibility’ relating to a woman who suffered from PTSD, where she described how ‘it seems to me that I never actually reach the objects which I touch’ (Van der Kolk 2014, 82). Though this example makes a particular reference to trauma, I question how this can be understood in a wider sense. How might touch enable alienated bodies to ‘reach’ foreign land and distant homes? How might intimate touch with the non-human address sensory insensibility in the face of alienated experience? Touch has been described as a form of species recognition (Cocozza 2018), that helps us to define distinctions and connections between self and other. I question how developing intimate touch with the more-than-human might facilitate an investigation of a less binary notion of self and of ‘other’. Furthermore, how might ‘species recognition’ extend beyond human relations? Studies have shown that touching soil, due to particular bacterias commonly found in soils, can increase serotonin production in the brain.1 How might this permeating exchange between human skin and soil be understood as an intimate relationship? How does intimacy relate with modes of care? &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; if the soil gets too wet, add leaves and cardboard shifting notes bubble past walls pulsing momentstimeless marks At one point, I could see through the transparent container that the bokashi soil was particularly wet at the bottom. I emptied it all onto a large piece of cardboard to reveal an intense rotten-egg, metallic smell that occupied my home: sulphur. The smell permeated everything, including my fingers upon touching the soil. Scents are powerful in affecting our mental state and physical well-being, and the smell of sulphur is said to cause worry, anxiety and resentment.2 As a bokashi practitioner, ‘negative’ smells are ‘not something to turn away from, but they are rather considered as a form of communication: important messages that need to be taken seriously. Sometimes the bad smell is described humorously as a bucket’s ‘stinking objection to possible mistreatment’ (Kinnunen 2021, 73). This smell was telling me that the soil environment was too wet, which in turn prompted me to add cardboard and spread some particularly wet parts of soil out to dry. This smell event also extended my engagement with materials beyond my home, as I needed to gather leaves. Walking to my nearest park, I felt a new sense of purpose and connection to this public space, as I collected leaves from the ground. I also leaned into the leaf-mould compost bin, where some leaves were still fresh and distinguishable, but others underneath were decaying - the fungal mouldy smells were intoxicating. I realised that as I dug my hand deeper, I was reaching through an archive of time: layers from spring, winter and autumn. My sulphur-infused fingers met with the earthy scents of leaf mould that were in varied states of transformation from previous seasons. Various scales of time and place were converging in deeply layered scents. This experience of expanded networks encourages a planetary reflection on how we might foster care practises for the invisible and infravisible with the view that ‘ecological well-being depends on aligning the temporal dimensions of many beings, and the consequences of disruption and slippage between times’ (vi) (Bellacasa 2017, 176)? How does this relate with awareness and care for marginalised, ‘invisible’ communities and related colonial structures of violence? How might investing in relations beyond the ‘hegemony of vision’ (Elam et al. 2013, 139) teach us to inhabit the earth in a more peaceful coexistence? curious collaborations bodies, uprooted shifting spaces reaching for ground After living with my bokashi bin for over 8 months, I had started to get very familiar and connected with the varied ‘shades’ of my orange bokashi smells. At the time of my Masters degree show, I moved all my bokashi elements to a small, empty white walled room where I was showing my work. With my bokashi materials in place, I was struck by how a sterile, ‘foreign’ space had become augmented with features of my home. Though only perceptible to me, this seemingly empty space now also contained features of home. Scents have the capacity to frame an experience and evoke powerful emotions, which has even been capitalised by ways of ‘scent marketing’ to manipulate customers into purchasing goods.3 In opposition to this, I consider how, by being particular to me, the orange bokashi scent-association with ‘home’ highlights a way of resisting large scale manipulative structures by fostering niche and particular scents that support creating safe spaces for minority communities. I question how, due to the fact that only particular people or groups might relate to certain scents, it can serve as a quiet form of resistance and resilience-building for marginalised peoples. How can we, through recreating smell, invite particular groups of people to belong and feel safe in public spaces? I question this from a body-centred perspective - considering the materiality of cultural transmission and the gestures involved in the sensory ‘activations’ with bokashi practice. Thinking of cultural history as a sensory enactment, I am reminded of Anna Tsing’s description of someone sharing a recipe with her as ‘you have a fish. You add salt’ (Tsing 2015, 248). This highlights the tacit knowledge involved in cooking, where the trick is ‘in the bodily performance, which isn’t easy to explain…it is a dance that partners here with many dancing lives’ (Tsing 2015, 248). I’m interested in how this relates to accessibility, where other forms of knowledges are required to partake. How does this relate with safe spaces for marginalised communities and forms of kinship that are intentionally partially accessible? Anita Mannur looks at this in the context of public eating spaces, in terms of rethinking ways to belong and not-belong to larger collectives by facilitating ‘intimate spaces of belonging (and unbelonging)...created for non normative subjects’ (Mannur 2022, 4).&nbsp; I question how these intimate spaces can be understood as body-centred experiences, exploring cultural memory as something that is ‘not merely something of which you happen to be a bearer but something that you actually perform, even if, in many instances, such acts are not consciously and wilfully contrived’ (Bal 1999, vii). What evidence does the body hold? What cultural traces are accessible to examine from the physicality of our existence? In his novel Soucouyant, David Chariandy examines the complex unbelonging of second-generation individuals, writing ‘what … might his mother’s elsewhere past, uttered now in broken pieces, and in a language not entirely his, ultimately mean to him here and now, in apparently very different circumstances?’ (Chariandy 2007, 813). This captures elements of the complex fragmentation and ‘broken pieces’ of unbelonging for alienated peoples, and gestures towards how these might be incorporated into complex new identity narratives. How can regenerative composting practices, like bokashi, contain individual and collective histories and transform present contexts? check on it, but try not to disturb hot pulseswarm bloodveins that touch <img width="1267" height="2429" width_o="1267" height_o="2429" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/9c3f010917c15141de9dc8f339f61805448d281fbc846b0925be8e3acecfceea/5-1.jpg" data-mid="160751383" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/9c3f010917c15141de9dc8f339f61805448d281fbc846b0925be8e3acecfceea/5-1.jpg" /> <img width="2890" height="3756" width_o="2890" height_o="3756" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/1d8576b6ecd6d47ed8dbf6ab830623fdaade8f02ee3c148add861745c91b66e9/5-2.JPG" data-mid="160751396" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/1d8576b6ecd6d47ed8dbf6ab830623fdaade8f02ee3c148add861745c91b66e9/5-2.JPG" /> <img width="1673" height="2499" width_o="1673" height_o="2499" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/9c1bec13c82fafa84a05792a4ddeabeeb7a74e9211c1de39c7178077d63224a9/5-3.JPG" data-mid="160751402" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/9c1bec13c82fafa84a05792a4ddeabeeb7a74e9211c1de39c7178077d63224a9/5-3.JPG" /> <img width="2243" height="2813" width_o="2243" height_o="2813" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/4cc017564d1f1409855bf74c0eb5c213dac47ec6a08676f551157222253b99f3/5-4.JPG" data-mid="160751409" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/4cc017564d1f1409855bf74c0eb5c213dac47ec6a08676f551157222253b99f3/5-4.JPG" /> ‘As Takalaiska gropes the pulp in the bucket with her bare &nbsp; &nbsp; hands, she engages in intimate contact with the living matter in the middle of its transformation process. Feeling the rising temperature is a means of knowing that although nothing has visibly changed, a great deal is happening.’ (Kinnunen 2021, 73)One of the events of bokashi being buried in the soil is the strong heat that’s emitted around the waste area due to microbial breakdown of organic material. The heat could just be experienced as a binary sensation of ‘warm’ but, much like Takalaiska’s experience, it also has the potential to be experienced in a more nuanced and embodied way. The more I spent time touching hot bokashi soil, the more this heat and its associated knowledge of what is happening started to activate a deeper sense of experience of knowing and being. What was just ‘hot’ came to feel so much more. At first, the heat triggered an urge in me to dig into the bokashi soil and see what was happening in this heat. Over time, as my understanding of what was happening had grown into a knowledge of networks and of microbial worlds being built and digested, my reaction to the heat started to change. I no longer wanted to disturb it. In fact, I wanted to leave it as untouched as possible, and what once felt like a simple form of communication started to feel abundant in speaking to signs of activity. As a bodily experience, I began to notice an experience of ‘soundscapes’ in my mind when I touched the heat - an abstracted world of motion and whispers. I have developed a rather intense imaginative world when I touch my warm bokashi soil, as human networks entangle with fungal and bacterial ones in the soil. This imagination is quite an embodied one: an auditory hum of a loud Moroccan family plays in my mind, and tangles with the physical sensation of the heat of the soil as well as my own warm pulsing blood. I offer this as a way to think of how home can be experienced as body-centred and performative. The experience of home has been described in phenomenology ‘as multi-sensory, where there is a blurring of clearly defined boundaries between the subject and object’ (Racz 2015, 15) and I question how multi-sensory and entangled intimacies with soil can support in ‘blurring of clearly defined boundaries’. My touch and the sensation of heat created a communication between me and the soil, which in turn developed an intimate relation that transformed the way I touched the bokashi soil. I’m interested in how this connects with earth-based cultures in relation to climate awareness, and being able to respect and respond to invisible and infravisble entanglements. How might developing a physical relation with earth matter foster a sense of kinship and relatability with the more-than-human? How might that support migrants and displaced bodies in finding alternative modes of belonging, in the absence of stable human connections? Repeat process digestion upon digestionnever the sametime <img width="4032" height="3024" width_o="4032" height_o="3024" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/dff9a774e71e3c6613d0b48b1e162af8ea215b9870a0ddbac57b2864a3450335/6-1.JPG" data-mid="160751493" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/dff9a774e71e3c6613d0b48b1e162af8ea215b9870a0ddbac57b2864a3450335/6-1.JPG" /> <img width="4032" height="3024" width_o="4032" height_o="3024" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/46a12ba12bc521b888c26fb90c6a726fd3f782a86e83ebf95955bf9de43ac525/6-2.JPG" data-mid="160751495" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/46a12ba12bc521b888c26fb90c6a726fd3f782a86e83ebf95955bf9de43ac525/6-2.JPG" /> <img width="1125" height="2436" width_o="1125" height_o="2436" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/e9e518eb02887fd291d0c1fc14009e0d817ba5a36eee0d61a6d606fe8e7a91be/6-3.jpg" data-mid="160751496" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/e9e518eb02887fd291d0c1fc14009e0d817ba5a36eee0d61a6d606fe8e7a91be/6-3.jpg" /> I end this writing by sharing an intention to explore another cycle of inquiry stemming from notions around self-sufficiency and re-skilling. My research continues to guide me towards deeper sensuous realms within the everyday, in relation with the infravisible - spanning from the bacterial to the spiritual and communal. How might, in seeking autonomous modalities for biological survival, we respond to fragilities that arise from environmental crises whilst also creating new spaces for non-verbal modes of knowing? I question this in relation to bacterial inoculation and dynamicity of ‘contamination’ as practise. How might, for example, cultivating bacteria through foraging for Indigenous Microorganisms (IMOs) serve to reskill people and nourish soils whilst also connecting us deeply to land that may not be home? How can embodied self-sufficiency/interdependence with nature enable alternative ways of belonging and being with and on earth, despite dispossession? I’m also interested in exploring the dynamics between action and inaction in relation to cultivation and conservation. This is something that I started to touch upon within my bokashi practice, where a deeper sensory engagement resulted in me increasingly leaving it alone. I question how non-intervention relates with our understanding of activism and productivity. How might we imagine productive in-activism or unproductive activism? How might non-productivity be cultivated? How could this speak to resistance to dominant capitalist structures? I wish to explore such tensions in conjunction with Buddhist philosophy as a means of addressing issues of ecological repair and alternative modes of belonging, being and knowing. Footnotes 1.&nbsp; O'Brien ME, Anderson H, Kaukel E, O'Byrne K, Pawlicki M, Von Pawel J, Reck M 2004: SRL172 (killed Mycobacterium vaccae) in addition to standard chemotherapy improves quality of life without affecting survival, in patients with advanced non-small-cell lung cancer: phase III results. 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Ltd Tsing, Anna Lowenhaupt 2015: The mushroom at the end of the world: on the possibility of life in capitalist ruins, Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press Van der Kolk, Bessel A. 2014: The body keeps the score : brain, mind, and body in the healing of trauma, USA: Viking Penguin &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; Back Menu Forward&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp; https://journalofartandecology.com/Laura-Buckle Wed, 09 Nov 2022 16:43:00 +0000 Journal of Art & Ecology https://journalofartandecology.com/Laura-Buckle Laura Buckle It takes 9000 stitches to complete a full circle. “The global textile industry is "one of the longest and most complicated industrial chains in the manufacturing industry" (Beton et al, 2014:13). "It takes 9000 stitches to complete a full circle”, is a stop motion video composed of a little over 9000 images. Photographing a single hand stitch at a time, this video documents the journey I have undertaken researching the complicated and chaotic textile industry, and potential solutions. Situated in Portsmouth, a city on the south coast of England, 9000 stitches demonstrates how something as simple as a google search to find out what happens to our unwanted textiles is incredibly complicated, frustrating, and laughable. It shouldn’t be this difficult. What clothes we wear directly impacts our planet, but we already know this. We already know that fast fashion is bad and unsustainable. We’ve seen the campaigns suggesting we buy second hand, or “recycle” our clothing.&nbsp; But here I propose a new campaign. One that might incite change and call out those responsible. One that highlights the issues of the current industry, without passing the blame onto those that have no choice, and one that will not stand for the continual depletion of land, and damage to human, and more than human life, all in the name of fashion. Information around how to change legislation is equally as complex and impenetrable as the language used within the textile industry. There are however rumours and rumblings that changes to legislation is on its way, and soon textile producers will be responsible for their products' entire life cycle. Existing already in some countries, others, including the UK, are soon to be subject to similar legislation (extended producer responsibility (EPR)); apparently. New legislation that enforces extended producer responsibility has the potential to drastically change the way our textiles are produced and better yet, how they are recycled. However, if EPR is enforced without a global and inclusive thought process, it’s unlikely to contribute to the efforts of those already combating the climate crisis. Globally there are some legislations that cover producer responsibility for products such as electrical goods. In France, the government want to reduce packaging and textile waste and their legislation states that “Anyone responsible for placing packaged products on the market must pay a “eco contribution fee” for the recycling of their packaging waste. Manufacturers in France must also take responsibility for textiles that are put in circulation” (Bettinl, 2021: n/p). However, when you buy an electrical household appliance in France," there is always a small part of the price labelled éco-participation, a fee used to fund collection and recycling of the item when it is no longer used. The money does not go to the government but to one of two non-profit organisations responsible for recycling” (Connexion France, 2019). In other words, the cost is passed onto the consumer.&nbsp; An inclusive circular economy, that is, one that does not exclude people from climate change solutions because of their race, class or gender, would not conclude with a solution where companies enforce a cost to the consumers. &nbsp; <img width="2935" height="1956" width_o="2935" height_o="1956" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/60c79b853e35baf5d6660fc3cc32bd27ae8d5e21813bf8d9550837a44435a55a/Slow-protest-Primark--Unwanted-textiles--2022..jpg" data-mid="160898625" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/60c79b853e35baf5d6660fc3cc32bd27ae8d5e21813bf8d9550837a44435a55a/Slow-protest-Primark--Unwanted-textiles--2022..jpg" /> One might argue that companies unable to absorb such costs, should reconsider making products that require such a pricey end, and perhaps redesign the way their textiles are made all together. My point is that even when legally enforced to ensure products are recycled, companies will still find a way to dodge, mislead, pass the buck and greenwash all those involved in the textile industry, including the consumer. Although I am not dismissing the fact someone must pay to safely recycle or dispose of our products, and that consumers should not contribute, this is a privileged, upper/middle class standpoint that not all can participate in.&nbsp; If many of the working class are unable to contribute financially to the recycling of their products, the likelihood is, they will be unable to purchase the product to begin with. Already we see this pattern in fast fashion; author Abigail Allan discusses climate change and the UK's working class, and responds to the suggestion that consumers should consider the quality of their items before purchasing, as a means to combat pollution. Allan states; "In the cycle of poverty, the working class consumer cannot afford to buy a high-quality, and therefore expensive, pair of boots, and so is forced to constantly and frequently buy and replace cheap pairs of boots. Furthermore, in my own experience, poorer members of society are more likely to not be able to afford a car and its associated costs, or even public transport, and so will walk more often, often over longer distances, meaning our cheap shoes are likely to wear out even more quickly. Buying more expensive, higher quality items is an investment that pays off both ecologically and economically - but people who don’t have the spare income to invest in higher quality items are stuck with an alternative that is worse for both their financial situation, forcing them further into the cycle of poverty, and for the planet.&nbsp; This forces the consumer to buy more products more often, forcing them further into the cycle of poverty – and inevitably increasing their climate impact" (Allan, 2020: n/p). <img width="2937" height="1958" width_o="2937" height_o="1958" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/1a5dad0aebf023a630357347c432469989bdf88a7872e5c23efb234d468232d9/Slow-protest-Dantan--Unwanted-textiles--2022..jpg" data-mid="160898619" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/1a5dad0aebf023a630357347c432469989bdf88a7872e5c23efb234d468232d9/Slow-protest-Dantan--Unwanted-textiles--2022..jpg" /> Without sociological context there is not a simple solution. Working class people may not have the option to avoid fast fashion, particularly with our current social crises.&nbsp; A non-consumerist approach to a circular economy may lead to class limitations and it would thereby suggest that the global industry need not create a complicated system, but scale back the current one; think necessity. If production merely responded to need, as opposed to desire, the social, economical and environmental strain would be reduced enormously. In order for this sociological change, environmentalism must not exclude or target others. Author Jennifer Westerman reviews working class scholar and activist Karen Bell’s book; Working-Class Environmentalism: An Agenda for a Just and Fair Transition to Sustainability.&nbsp; In it, “Bell calls on her readers and others to build a more inclusive environmentalism that will ‘benefit, include, and respect working-class people’ (p. 138). Learning from the environmentalism of the world’s poor efforts by trade unions to address environmental problems, and social movements for worker health and safety will enable a radical socio-ecological transformation. Bell asserts: ‘we must build alliances between social and environmental movements and extend these movements to support the widest scope of humans and ecologies possible'" (Westerman, 2021: 150). As this issue is global, there is no quick fix or blanket solution that could possibly support everyone in the world. However it's with utmost importance that we stop the disempowerment and continuous beatings that the working class, Global South, and all others who are of a sociological and physical disadvantage, continually take. If we are not careful, legislation change may replicate this pattern in different ways. We must ensure that there are no legislation loopholes that will allow companies to appear to be doing the right thing for the industry and our planet, but are in fact excluding many, whilst making no real change at all. Legislation that ensures companies are responsible for a product's entire life cycle, must also ensure that what happens to the product is the same, regardless of who purchased it. Our current set up deliberately targets and blames those who are unable to participate any other way. There are of course exceptions to this; influencers and celebrities who don’t wear the same item twice, or the constant bombardment of social media and advertisers, desperately applying pressure for us to consume, consume, consume. I am not ignoring these facts, nor am I saying they are not incredibly problematic and detrimental to the way in which the industry is run. However I am saying that it is my belief that over time we can change these attitudes and behaviours for with them; comes choice. I am standing for those that have no choice. The people in the Global South, the working class, the poor. I am standing for the workers in elastane factories becoming sick from the toxic chemicals, for the independent companies, scientists and researchers creating better ways to make and dispose of our products. For the protesters, artists and organisations shining light on this global unfairness and stating that enough is enough. It is for these people and more, that I implore not just my government in the UK, but for governments around the world to stop this ludicrousness and make it simple. For that is the fix: simplicity. Working class environmentalism provides the opportunity to consider everyone, of all backgrounds and abilities. Its impact on the textile industry would mean less items produced, better quality items, and transparency around recycling and a product's end of life. <img width="2912" height="1941" width_o="2912" height_o="1941" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/ea83b24ede0ad08615d61a2dc3c07ef1448e24c1d73471fe6033e0b481232d8b/Slow-protest-H_M--Unwanted-textiles--2022..jpg" data-mid="160898614" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/ea83b24ede0ad08615d61a2dc3c07ef1448e24c1d73471fe6033e0b481232d8b/Slow-protest-H_M--Unwanted-textiles--2022..jpg" /> It is my belief that legislation change is the next step needed, to begin to make the global textile industry a much fairer, simpler place for all. However, my argument is that if you're a producer of a product, and the law states you are responsible for its entire life cycle, you must also be responsible for the interactions your product has with people and the landscape along the way. Is it sourced in a way that isn't detrimental to the land? Are the workers producing it being paid fairly and cared for? Are consumers buying an honest product without greenwashing? Can that consumer afford the time to repair? Is there a clear way to recycle? Can it go back to the land at the end of its life? It is my belief that the law should recognise these interactions as responsibility, and producers should be held accountable. Not with fines,&nbsp; but with action, reprimand, and consequence. Without change the poor get poorer, the sick get sicker, and an unsustainable industry will continue to grow at the detriment to our planet. It is important we shop second hand or from sustainably conscious and fair companies. It’s important that we reuse and repair our textiles, that we wear them more and wash them less. It’s important to avoid certain materials and read past the greenwashing, and it is important to donate and recycle our clothes. But not every option is possible for all, or easy to do, nor will any or all of those options combined change anything quickly. We need producers to take responsibility, and create a much simpler industry. Perhaps the global textile industry may seem ambiguous, but in my campaign I intend to call out those responsible. I will fight for a fair legislation change, to ensure producers are held accountable. I will fight for better production, honesty and transparency, new technologies, and simplicity, and I ask you to stand with me in this fight where together we state that enough is enough. I am campaigning for global change and I am fighting against global injustice. Watch this space. Allan, A, (2020) No Choice: Climate Change and the UK’s Working Class, [online] Accessed: 26.08.22. Available at: www.anthroposphere.co.uk. Beton, A, Dias, D, Farrant, L, Gibo, T, Le, Y. 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Back Menu Forward https://journalofartandecology.com/Finlay-Forbes-Gower Wed, 09 Nov 2022 16:45:08 +0000 Journal of Art & Ecology https://journalofartandecology.com/Finlay-Forbes-Gower &nbsp; &nbsp; Finlay Forbes-Gower <img width="1319" height="853" width_o="1319" height_o="853" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/95564c64b3b6bc30febc45a75e51303a73661cedebcfc23bbb113b67c7fbcd8d/1.opening.jpg" data-mid="160719180" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/95564c64b3b6bc30febc45a75e51303a73661cedebcfc23bbb113b67c7fbcd8d/1.opening.jpg" /> <img width="1512" height="850" width_o="1512" height_o="850" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/62a073f9dbbba6792a3841a6dac5596b65c7c7fb4cfd2da4fc41987aa646f663/2.jpg" data-mid="160719182" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/62a073f9dbbba6792a3841a6dac5596b65c7c7fb4cfd2da4fc41987aa646f663/2.jpg" /> <img width="1920" height="1080" width_o="1920" height_o="1080" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/576d2c311976d16f2a7cd1e9b0983e7322d0bb70b9a096361af714e0456a49a9/3.jpg" data-mid="160719181" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/576d2c311976d16f2a7cd1e9b0983e7322d0bb70b9a096361af714e0456a49a9/3.jpg" /> <img width="1528" height="1080" width_o="1528" height_o="1080" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/ceb6f15764d7d8298d4639b8b64d9bb78566a2e9c14c72caa1875c8bbfedf23c/6.jpg" data-mid="160719183" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/ceb6f15764d7d8298d4639b8b64d9bb78566a2e9c14c72caa1875c8bbfedf23c/6.jpg" /> <img width="1528" height="1080" width_o="1528" height_o="1080" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/e7a1dbb27bc4e641c60c842e5ee2582dcc71392ea06702fa9eb11d8baf8ba185/4.jpg" data-mid="160719185" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/e7a1dbb27bc4e641c60c842e5ee2582dcc71392ea06702fa9eb11d8baf8ba185/4.jpg" /> <img width="1577" height="1080" width_o="1577" height_o="1080" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/ed684b97baa678cded522e52b0add0ddc655609182c8f8d363d6e237889ee27c/5.jpg" data-mid="160719186" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/ed684b97baa678cded522e52b0add0ddc655609182c8f8d363d6e237889ee27c/5.jpg" /> &nbsp; &nbsp; Back Menu Forward&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; https://journalofartandecology.com/Sophie-Hughes-1 Tue, 06 Dec 2022 16:29:11 +0000 Journal of Art & Ecology https://journalofartandecology.com/Sophie-Hughes-1 &nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp; Sophie Hughes My work roams the boundaries between the known and the unknown. Looking through spiritual and scientific lenses, I focus on relationships between humans and the more-than-human world, from the micro to the vegetal to the cosmic. In the heart, the queue and the whale, a series of illustrated poetry and rupture, a film, I have mapped thought experiments that form urban landscapes. In these works, the city takes the form of a hybridised body with guttural functions, rhythms and tides. Collective receptacles for grief and hope occur in the form&nbsp;of&nbsp;a&nbsp;whale in the river&nbsp;and a&nbsp;five-mile-long queue of mourning, which&nbsp;rupture the urban trance and open&nbsp;space for intraconnection. Please begin by scrolling down through the heart, the queue and the whale. When you have finished, please take a deep breath and continue on to watch the film, rupture. &nbsp; &nbsp; the heart, the queue and the whale <img width="1920" height="9019" width_o="1920" height_o="9019" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/d3c18cf37f75b56acf4413b365ef91baa93b71c68838da5c215ee817dda6f689/001-ART-ECO-JOURNAL-VERTICAL-SOPHIE-HUGHES-the-heart--the-queue-and-the-whale.jpg" data-mid="161153710" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/d3c18cf37f75b56acf4413b365ef91baa93b71c68838da5c215ee817dda6f689/001-ART-ECO-JOURNAL-VERTICAL-SOPHIE-HUGHES-the-heart--the-queue-and-the-whale.jpg" /> &nbsp; &nbsp; rupture &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; Back Menu Forward&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; https://journalofartandecology.com/Barney-Pau Wed, 09 Nov 2022 16:45:05 +0000 Journal of Art & Ecology https://journalofartandecology.com/Barney-Pau Barney Pau Radical Queer Bakers A Zine-Cum-Recipe-Book <img width="2125" height="1463" width_o="2125" height_o="1463" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/2944152b19f7190f58d8338a7934c94efdbf70833a88d4bee43ef8ed5ffee7c4/RQB-0193.jpg" data-mid="161158865" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/2944152b19f7190f58d8338a7934c94efdbf70833a88d4bee43ef8ed5ffee7c4/RQB-0193.jpg" /> Single-minded in our war of attrition, humans have enlisted armies of monocultured clones to march across the land. Genetically refined, chemically protected, and synthetically fed; these plants never rest. Soils crumble as they march; waters slurry with their poison; airs suffocate in their pollution. Mountains have been moved; rivers rerouted; the earth bled black. Their victories, however, are pyrrhic. Gained territories become barren, pillaged of fertility; an agricultural scorched-earth policy. Ransacked of its resources, the land is left battered; at once organically sterile and toxically fertile; conquered with the full human arsenal of chemical and mechanical technology under the unifying flag of monoculture. <img width="2125" height="1463" width_o="2125" height_o="1463" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/f9d4a87505d2874e21d9544d873067e5a1ca026afde559a7ebc38195b6b67c44/RQB-02.jpg" data-mid="160741484" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/f9d4a87505d2874e21d9544d873067e5a1ca026afde559a7ebc38195b6b67c44/RQB-02.jpg" /> Radical Queer Bakers(RQB) is a call to action. It is an endeavour to creatively disseminate conventional treatments of the land; to question and queer traditional agricultural and environmental practices; and better redress how we might cohabit and care for this world. RQB calls all cooks: let’s spoil this broth. Let’s stir the pot and brew a coup from this soup. Come take the biscuit, and stick your fingers in our half-baked pie. Whether you’re chaff or wheat, let’s make hay while the sun shines. So take a seat at the table, and together let’s have our cake and&nbsp;eat it. <img width="2125" height="1463" width_o="2125" height_o="1463" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/a9b62f13154673e4235f82cab4f3d52bc4e563113859f9fa802e01bf223abda1/RQB-03.jpg" data-mid="160741597" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/a9b62f13154673e4235f82cab4f3d52bc4e563113859f9fa802e01bf223abda1/RQB-03.jpg" /> Each issue of RQB will collaborate with a creative who works at the confluence of consumption and queerness. Whether their work focuses on land-management, agriculture, cooking, or eating; we seek those who subvert and divert normativity with their practice. By focussing on kinship and creative collaboration, RQB seeks to explore non-normative forms of reproduction that champion diversity. Whether queer, questioning, or uncategorised; curious, non-conforming, or unconventional; if you’re an ally who’s aligned: help us stir this pot. So, to all the wallflowers at the field’s edge: let’s cross-pollinate and create! <img width="2125" height="1463" width_o="2125" height_o="1463" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/371e9cef7caad07c2e8ffa9415fe7c24dfb82fdd6fb851e7a6190400e770b4d7/RQB-04.jpg" data-mid="160741632" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/371e9cef7caad07c2e8ffa9415fe7c24dfb82fdd6fb851e7a6190400e770b4d7/RQB-04.jpg" /> A note from the editor: In this beta issue of RQB I explore my own practice, as an example of what this publication might be. As such, these views are my individual consciousness, determined by my queerness, but also by my cisgender, white, middle-class, maleness. I am not practically versed in husbandry; I am a consumer, not a producer, both in theory and praxis. Yet this issue is for all, and endeavours to avoid singularity by encouraging plurality. My work explores queering consumption through food, looking at the domestic realm; home of constrictive normativity fed by heteronormative ideals. In The Queerness of Home (2021), the queer historian Stephen Vider identifies the “home as a site of creative tension between integration and resistance” (ibid: 3). In dismantling the codified norms of domesticity, I hope to better understand and challenge the consumptive practices that are so detrimental to our food systems. In a radical act of queer reproduction, I share with you my bread recipe and a sample of my starter, so join me, and help me spread my seed. <img width="2125" height="1463" width_o="2125" height_o="1463" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/4cdcb26525458957ee7ad65d7e95c489f567d6d3ce46dcafd4fee816f6a69a1e/RQB-05.jpg" data-mid="160741797" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/4cdcb26525458957ee7ad65d7e95c489f567d6d3ce46dcafd4fee816f6a69a1e/RQB-05.jpg" /> Situating myself Sexuality—queer or not—is often demonised, and non-reproductive sex deemed superfluous. Queerness, in it’s non-reproductivity and sexual alterity to the (hetero)norm, is doubly condemned. Liberation movements often use sexuality to defy inherent structures of power. My work sexualises and queers to explore alternatives to normativity. One particularly pertinent word to my practice is ‘promiscuity’. ‘Promiscuous’, from Latin promiscuus: ‘indiscriminate’, is based on miscere: ‘to mix’, and originally meant ‘consisting of elements mixed together’; whence contemporary notions of ‘indiscriminate sex’ derivate. Promiscuity is diversity through freedom of choice. In agriculture, a promiscuous crop genetically self-diversifies, creating a ‘population’ of similar, yet genetically unique plants. This engenders self-sufficiency: if one species senescences to an abiotic stress—pest, disease, weather—another is adapted to survive. Populations are environmental failsafes, ensuring futurity. Promiscuity’s agricultural antonym is ‘monoculture’. Its prefix, mono-, ‘one’, negates promiscuity by upholding singularity. Both social and agricultural monocultures promote uniformity: consumers thereof are subject to their influence; as the poet Wendell Berry famously wrote: “Eating is an agricultural act.” Both social and agricultural monocultures render ‘otherness’ as deviance. Through queering, my practice challenges both social (heteronormative) and agricultural monocultures through diversification. <img width="2125" height="1463" width_o="2125" height_o="1463" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/a7e961f2e948a933de7a8532efd176853a449f94db89e438e520225699530914/RQB-06.jpg" data-mid="160741876" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/a7e961f2e948a933de7a8532efd176853a449f94db89e438e520225699530914/RQB-06.jpg" /> What’s in a name? Radical: The term 'radical’ is rooted in late Middle English to mean ‘forming the root’ and ‘inherent’; in turn sourced from late Latin radicalis, from radix; radic-: ‘root’. Radicalism is a literal reconnection to one’s roots. Queer: The term ‘queer’ comes from the Low German queer: ‘off-centre’; taken from the Old High German twerh: ‘oblique’, which in turn is rooted in the Proto-Indo-European (PIE) terkw: ‘to twist’. ‘Queer’ entered 16th century English to mean ‘strange’, ‘odd’, or ‘peculiar’. By the 19th century queer had become a pejorative term for sexual deviance. A century later it was reclaimed by queer activists who turned it into a homophile term, and has since become an umbrella term for non-heterosexuals. By the 1990s queer theory became recognised in academia as a critical discourse against heteronormativity, and ‘queering’ as an action, joined ‘queer’ as an identity. Baker: In Western narratives, bread is synonymous with sustenance. Through its medium we can understand culture: from its contextual import; and entwined history with agriculture; to the infrastructural problems it incurs; and the potential solutions it presents. The baker is thus a conduit: they form and shape the way we eat; their ferments can foment us; and into their bread messages of responsible consumption can be baked. <img width="2125" height="1463" width_o="2125" height_o="1463" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/bcf19e635bc07b0b0adb4c5269b386ed40976f3eb0fd7fb704feb1535f05813a/RQB-07.jpg" data-mid="160741963" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/bcf19e635bc07b0b0adb4c5269b386ed40976f3eb0fd7fb704feb1535f05813a/RQB-07.jpg" /> Why the Queer Zine? Queer zines are radical. Their alterity defies inherent systems of control. The introduction to Queer Zines Vol. 2 (2014) states that “queer zines [...] establish communality in difference.” (ibid: 4). In Fruity Zine Love Poem Essay, published in the same book, the trans activist Edie Fake writes: “Feral, free, mutable and rowdy, queer zines invest themselves in a non-canonical and anti linear diary of the world. Queer zines act as starter cultures—concentrated, restless doses of fevered activity” (ibid: 204). What is Queering? Queering is a practice as much as queerness is an identity. Both are based in alterity. Queering is subversion; perversion; divergence from the norm. In Cruising Utopia (2009), the queer theorist José Esteban Muñoz writes: “Queerness is an ideality”; “a structuring and educated mode of desiring that allows us to see and feel beyond the quagmire of the present”. Muñoz presents queerness as futurity; a utopia to strive for, though not yet achieved. The philosopher Jonathan Dollimore suggests in Sexual Dissidence (1990) that “Perversion [queerness] was (and remains) a concept bound up with insurrection.” (Ibid: 103). He writes that queerness perverts the norm through the act of ‘straying’, which “reveals [the norm’s] coercive ‘nature’”; “in straying we discover alternative ways to alternative futures” (ibid: 106), and can “produce a glimpse of difference, one which remains with the stray, even as he or she is coerced back to the straight and narrow” (ibid: 107). Queerness, by ‘straying’ from the norm, enables alterity. In their article FUCKING PANSIES (2016), the queer theorist Casper Heinemann suggests creativity to be queer futurity for non-reproductive sexualities; a means of ensuring posterity. <img width="2125" height="1463" width_o="2125" height_o="1463" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/071f91f90301a82a1cdbd936ec2723060457ddf8b94eaade46f621c129282225/RQB-08.jpg" data-mid="160742086" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/071f91f90301a82a1cdbd936ec2723060457ddf8b94eaade46f621c129282225/RQB-08.jpg" /> Why do we look like we do? This zine takes a ‘boustrophedon structure’; a method of book-making where the entire publication is made of one whole sheet of paper. Boustrophedon is an ancient style of writing in which alternate lines are written in reverse, used before the widespread adoption of contemporary conventional writing styles, in which lines begin on the same side. The term comes from Ancient Greek: βουστροφηδόν [boustrophēdón]: composed of βοῦς [bous], “ox”; στροφή [strophḗ], “turn”; and the suffix -δόν, [-dón], “like”. Brought together, the term literally means “like the ox turns [while ploughing]”. By Adopting this approach, each page of RQB&nbsp;represents part of a united whole—a bigger picture, if you will. The publications’ non-linear, plural trajectories negate the page order of conventional publishing. Similarly, much as furrows regulate a field’s format, the gridwork of traditional typography can constrict creativity. By obfuscating the rigidity of traditionally gridded typographic layouts, RQB queers convention and promotes alterity, while still adhering to a print-inspired format. <img width="2125" height="1463" width_o="2125" height_o="1463" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/c6d402d30802fb78a9625e9a98e945e58ff3eebbd1582aefbe798458829b27f8/RQB-09.jpg" data-mid="160742198" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/c6d402d30802fb78a9625e9a98e945e58ff3eebbd1582aefbe798458829b27f8/RQB-09.jpg" /> Promiscuous Bent Bread The bread recipe included in this zine has been designed to not only nourish the soul, but also the soil. The ingredients list calls for both grains and pulses, companion plants which not only feed each-other, but also the ground from which they grow. “Why ‘Bent Bread’?”, you ask? “Why should a loaf be straight?”, I respond. “Why promiscuous, then?” As previously mentioned, a promiscuous crop is one that defies monoculture and outcrosses with genetically similar, but unique plants, effectively self diversifying. Why rye? Rye is notoriously promiscuous, an attribute that greatly endears it to me, hence my preference to baking with it. Rye bread need not be kneaded, requiring less intervention and granting the cultures that inhibit it greater autonomy. Rye is also inherently queer. The domestication of rye occurred somewhat differently to that of other grains. Wild rye, a grass similar to wild wheat, entered the field as a weed; undesired by the farmer. With each harvest, the farmer would select the most desirable wheat of their crop and plant it the next year. The rye that acted and looked most similar to the wheat would also get selected by the unsuspecting farmer, securing itself another generation of husbandry. This is a process called Vavilovian mimicry, and involves three agents: the model, the mimic, and the dupe. Rye, by mimicking wheat—the model—dupes the human. Rye underwent a series of morphological, physiological, and behavioural changes in this process of assimilation, becoming an unintentional domesticate. Thus, due to these promiscuous, anti-assimilationist tendencies, rye continues to fight the homogeneity of standardisation and reductionism; it is radically queer in it’s refusal to go along; it ‘strays’. Similar, but never truly the same; forced to assimilate, yet fighting for agency: rye’s parities with queer identity make it an apposite grain to bake with. <img width="2125" height="1463" width_o="2125" height_o="1463" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/a715c09b8cec2bd9d2ee6e1ceb46bd97776a045156abbf0b7b816d16ba72f528/RQB-10.jpg" data-mid="160742282" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/a715c09b8cec2bd9d2ee6e1ceb46bd97776a045156abbf0b7b816d16ba72f528/RQB-10.jpg" /> Spread my Seed Included in this zine is a dried sample of active starter. Gifting it is a radical act of queer reproduction.&nbsp; Fermentation is inherently queer; a non-normative form of interspecies collaborative reproduction which negates the norms of repro-centrism (a term borrowed from Catriona Mortimer-Sandilands and Bruce Eriksons 2010 book, Queer Ecologies). The queerness of fermentation is explored by the queer fermentation revivalist Sandor Katz. In his Fermentation as Metaphor (2020), Katz writes that “The greatest promise of metaphorical fermentation is that it generates new forms” (ibid: 92); it is an “infinite regenerative power” (ibid: 106). He likens fermentation to the Rebellious Spirit—they who refute established authority—for its “inevitable expression of refusal to go along.” (ibid: 86). Fermentation thus becomes actively radical in its non-conformity. <img width="2125" height="1463" width_o="2125" height_o="1463" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/3baf6983811ef9734ccfcb21f4cf39a72df0df2d674b35ab83c046c7e1cf0533/RQB-11.jpg" data-mid="160742561" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/3baf6983811ef9734ccfcb21f4cf39a72df0df2d674b35ab83c046c7e1cf0533/RQB-11.jpg" /> Where to start Drying a starter below 45˚C, as it has been prepared here, allows the live cultures it contains to go dormant, ready to be awakened when needed. The sachet in this zine will last indefinitely, so take your time. To bring this starter back to life, add it to a mixture of 1 part water to 1 part dark rye flour to make a thick paste. Leave in a loosely sealed container at room temperature for 24 hours. Discard a small amount and top up with more water and flour. Keep this cycle going until the starter is bubbling and active and smells nice and strong. An active starter needs regular feeding, though it can survive for a while in the fridge unfed. Gone mouldy? Don’t fret, simply scrape off the top layer of mould and refeed what remains underneath, and it’ll bubble back to life in no time. The older a starter is, the more excitingly diverse and active it becomes. The sample attached to this zine has been nurtured over several years. By sharing it with you it will grow and develop becoming more diverse and complex. <img width="2125" height="1463" width_o="2125" height_o="1463" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/e584bf55ad4bd1059ee1930402f2c664cd5fb4e1e0e9930093085b90237d243d/RQB-12.jpg" data-mid="160742703" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/e584bf55ad4bd1059ee1930402f2c664cd5fb4e1e0e9930093085b90237d243d/RQB-12.jpg" /> Soil Food: Eating for the Earth Makes 3 loaves Takes 3 days The ingredients of the flour in this recipe represent a rough guide to grain-to-pulse ratio for 1.1kg of soil food flour: &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; 600g rye four &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; 100g einkorn or emmer wheat flour= &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; 100g spelt flour &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; 100g oat flour &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; 200g assorted pulse flours* *Health-food shops often stock a range of pulse flours. Equipment: 3 bread tins Mixing bowl &amp; plate Day 1 17:00 &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; 50g rye flour &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; 50g warm water Add both flour and water to the rye starter and mix well. Leave at room temperature overnight to ferment. The next morning it should be bubbly and active. Day 2 08:00 &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; 100g active rye starter &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; 300g soil food flour &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; 600g warm water Mix the ingredients in a mixing bowl. Cover&nbsp; the production starter with a plate and leave at room temp for 6-7 hours until bubbly and active. 15:00 &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; 100g sunflower seeds &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; 100g pumpkin seeds &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; 100g hemp seeds &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; 990g production starter &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; 660g soil food flour &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; 24g salt &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; 400g water Toast the seeds. Mix all the ingredients in a large bowl. Lightly grease and flour the tins. Portion the mix into them evenly. Place them on a baking tray and cover with a plastic bag. Leave to prove somewhere warm for 2-3 hours until they have risen by a third. 18:00 Preheat the oven to 220C. Bake for 70m, then leave to cool. Your bread is now ready to eat! Leaving it for 12-24 hours helps the flavours mature and the sourness to develop. 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