Category: Rot
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Dead Owls and Blue Bottle Flies
Heather Swan, author of Where Honeybees Thrive, explores the taxidermy art of Claire Morgan alongside her own encounters with owls and death.
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Breathing Trees
On a writing residency in the Andrews Experimental Forest, Oregon, Gavin Van Horn embraces the vital possibilities of more-than-human perspectives.
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Coring Europa / induction rhetoric
Two new poems by Josh Allsop, whose research explores the experience of difficulty in the poetries of Geoffrey Hill and J.H. Prynne.
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Spoiled Waters Spilled
Previewing an exhibition exploring rivers, contamination and cross-border circulation. Part of Manifesta 13 Les Parallèles du Sud.
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Pharmakeia
The Circe myth updated for the age of synthetic biology: disconcerting new writing by Erin Rogers, with accompanying art by John Stark.
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Editorial: Rot
Editor Julia Cavicchi introduces Rot, a section of The Learned Pig exploring multispecies creativity through modest tales of collaboration and coexistence.
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Compassionate Climate Activism
Vermont-based environmental and social justice advocate Chris Gaynor on the compulsion to protect, educate and care for our species.
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In The Fray
“Sewing is an act of care and kindness,” says artist Hana Wilde. “I look for the shared textures, colours and forms between the human and non-human.”
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Petites Morts
An ongoing photographic collaboration between artist Nadège Meriau and mushrooms gathered from an ancient woodland in North London.
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…Remains
Artist Gillian Genser describes how making art caused irreparable damage to her own body due to the toxic residues of human progress.
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Growing SCOBY in Inappropriate Contexts
Artist Bianca Hlywa delves into the process of making collaborative installations using SCOBY – symbiotic cultures of bacteria and yeast.