Themes: Ecology

Colossal Cave

“Somewhere nearby is Colossal Cave. Magic is said to work in the cave. I will be your eyes and hands.” Excavated from the world’s largest

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Sitting in Darkness

Out of the darkness a sound emerges. It echoes and drones. Terrified people take to the streets in search of its source. They get their

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Rhizome

‘rhizome’ has no beginning or end; it is always in the middle, between things, interbeing. ‘rhizome’, a horizontal underground plant stem capable of producing root

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Resonance

For the video work Resonance, the artist was inspired by the following lines of poetry by T.S. Eliot: We shall not cease from exploring And

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Sounds from Beneath

Sounds from Beneath began with the artist Mikhail Karikis inviting a coal miners’ choir to recall and sing the sounds they used to hear when they worked

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No Ordinary Protest

Can sound mobilise socio-political and physical change? Working across film, sound and performance, Greek-British artist Mikhail Karikis adopts the children’s science fiction novel ‘The Iron

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Empire of the Swamp

“Empire of the Swamp” (2023) begins with a figure wandering from the mangrove swamps surrounding the city edges of Singapore to Bukit Brown Cemetery in

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Immaterial Terrain

Immaterial Terrain is a film made by Emily Richardson along a seven-mile stretch of the Suffolk coast between Sizewell nuclear power station and the mythic

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The Ragwort

The general definition of a ‘weed’ is ‘a plant in the wrong place’ or ‘a plant growing where it is not wanted’. Where then is

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The Edge of Forever

The Edge of Forever (2022) centers on two questing children seeking to unravel the mysteries of a damaged world in a landscape loaded with symbolism.

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Soil, Sinew and Bone

Working with film footage from Screen Archive South East, spanning the 1930s to the 1970s, Blandy charts the protracted revolution from the age of horsepower

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