The Learned Pig

Art – Thinking – Nature – Writing

Category: Rot

  • Redundant, Outdated, Trivial

    Redundant, Outdated, Trivial

    In praise of decomposition, fermentation and transformation by Fin Jordão, the water and waste officer at the Centre for Alternative Technology in Wales.

  • Collaborations on the Corner

    Collaborations on the Corner

    Collaboratively produced paintings on cardboard by Phill Hopkins and Jadene Imbush – part of a larger project on the UK’s burgeoning homelessness crisis.

  • Canopic Jars: the Afterlife of Matter

    Canopic Jars: the Afterlife of Matter

    Artists Anna Walker and Genie Poretzky-Lee make use of glass jars as containers for an experimental process of growth and transformation.

  • Open Call: Rot

    Open Call: Rot

      *** Rot is currently closed for submissions. We will reopen again soon. You can sign up to our newsletter for updates. ***     The world is full of both collaborations and contaminations. The evolutionary theory of symbiogenesis tells us that we are born of indigestion; some 2 billion years ago, one bacterial cell…