About this Event
You are warmly invited to launch of the 4th edition of The Journal of Art & Ecology, featuring work by the 2025 graduating cohort of the MA Art & Ecology at Goldsmiths, University of London, and response by esteemed guest Persilia Caton.
This edition of The Journal of Art & Ecology presents artistic research relating to folk horror, shitting in the woods, wheat metabolisms, airy bodies, tree grieving, ephemeral materialities, mineral intimacies, poetics of salt, capitalist ruins, lichen protocols, shapeshifting, island longings, interspecies solidarity, daylighting rivers, deep time chemistry, the Second Body, arboreal electronics.
Featuring work by:
Orla Forrest
Bug Fowler
Adriana Gallo
Megan Willow Hack
Sohyn Kim
Kalika Kulukundis
Renata Minoldo
Jooyeong Moon
Grace O'Leary
Ella Yolanda
Fajrina Razak
Alejandro Reiriz Pouseu
Shama Sahzayasin
Amanda Simon
Yasmin Smith
Lili Süper
Delphine Tomes
Guest Respondent Persilia Caton is Collection Curator at Artangel. Persilia oversees the presentation of film and video works from the Collection in collaboration with galleries, museums and festivals across the UK. In addition, she facilitates the Making Time residency programme which supports artists as they reflect on their own practice amidst an ever-growing awareness of environmental degradation, biodiversity loss, and climate change.With an artist-led approach that supports meaningful experiences for artists and audiences, Persilia has a background in commissioning, artist development, public programming, large-scale projects in the public realm, socially engaged collaborations and audience development—in person and online. She is experienced in working outside of formal gallery spaces and interested in responding to different contexts.For over a decade she has been working at arts organisations in London, including Southbank Centre, SPACE, Wellcome Collection and The Photographers' Gallery. Previous to that she worked at CONTACT Photography Festival and The Power Plant in Toronto, Canada.
Image courtesy of Ella Yolanda.
The MA Art & 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. The Journal of Art & Ecology is a unique feature of this programme that provides an online platform for the work of graduating students.
This is a free event. We encourage you to register so that we can manage capacity and so that you can receive updates in case of any unforeseen issues.
Access: Public entry to the George Wood Theatre is via the Richard Hogart Building. Disabled toilet facilities are available in the Richard Hoggart Building. We will provide seating. Travel details to Goldsmiths are available here.
Please note: A photographer will be present to document this event. Photos may be used for documentation and promotional purposes. If for any reason this does not feel comfortable, please let one of the organisers know when you arrive at the event and we’ll make sure you do not appear in any photos.
Further information about the programme and how to apply can be found here.
Event Venue & Nearby Stays
George Wood Theatre, Goldsmiths, University of London, Lewisham Way, London, United Kingdom
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