Fieldwork for Future Ecologies reframes fieldwork itself as a site of radical artistic intervention, gathering twenty contributors — artists, writers, and theorists — to map how art practice and art-based research can reshape environmental and climate inquiry.
About This Book
Part handbook, part philosophical provocation, this volume operates at the intersection of art-based research, environmental studies, and expanded notions of the field. Rather than treating fieldwork as a neutral methodology, it interrogates the very idea of the field — its locations, its politics, its sensory possibilities — through image, sound, movement, and other sensing technologies. Projects drawn from diverse geographic situations demonstrate how artistic practice can contribute meaningfully to climate discourse in ways that conventional scientific or academic approaches cannot. For practitioners working at the boundary of art and ecology, this is a rare collection that treats radical practice not as aesthetic gesture but as serious epistemological work.
Key Features
- 544 pages of essays, artist contributions, and speculative propositions spanning image, sound, and movement-based practices
- Edited by Bridget Crone, Sam Nightingale, and Polly Stanton
- Contributing authors include Angus Carlyle, Imani Jacqueline Brown, Julie Gough, Melody Jue, Nicholas Mangan, Philip Samartzis, Susan Schuppli, Simon O'Sullivan, and others
- Published by Onomatopee, ISBN 9789493148918
What You'll Discover
- How art practice and art-based research expand and challenge the conventions of fieldwork as a methodological category
- The role of image, sound, movement, and sensing technologies as modes of engaging with vastly different climates and terrains
- How artistic intervention contributes a distinct and necessary perspective to environmental and climate studies
- Speculative and creative propositions that position the field itself — not just fieldwork — as a contested, generative concept
About the Author
Angus Carlyle is among twenty contributors to this volume, which is edited by Bridget Crone, Sam Nightingale, and Polly Stanton. The full contributor list includes artists, writers, and theorists working across geographic locations and disciplines engaged with ecology, sound, and artistic research. [Details available upon request]
Specifications
- Format: Softcover
- Pages: 544
- Dimensions: 138 x 215 mm
- Language: English
- ISBN: 9789493148918
- Publisher: Onomatopee
- Publication Date: [Details available upon request]
Perfect For: Artists and researchers working at the intersection of ecology and practice, sound and environmental artists, academics in art-based research and climate studies, and curators engaged with contemporary art's relationship to the natural world.