Listening to Nature — a conversation with environmental journalist Anna Turns
Arts & Ecology
This week's podcast is a conversation between guest interviewer Dr. Mike Edwards, co-founder of environmental organisation Sound Matters, and scientist and journalist Anna Turns who is the Senior environment editor of Conservation UK. Anna writes: I specialise in crafting features and radio documentaries about sustainability, from climate change and renewable energy to marine issues, food and farming. My first book, Go Toxic Free: Easy and Sustainable Ways to Reduce Chemical Pollution, was published in 2022, and I enjoy presenting episodes of BBC Radio 4’s Costing the Earth...
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Finding the Point of Encounter: Chantal Bilodeau
Arts & Ecology
Chantal Bilodeau is a Montreal-born, New York-based playwright and translator whose work focuses on the intersection of storytelling and the climate crisis. She is the founding artistic director of the Arts & Climate Initiative, where she has spearheaded initiatives for nearly two decades, getting theatre and educational communities, as well as audiences in the U.S. and abroad, to engage in climate conversation and climate action through programming that includes live events, talks, publications, workshops, artist convenings, and an award-winning distributed theatre festival. Playwriting...
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Going Deep with Nature: Eva Bakkeslett and Astrid Ardagh
Arts & Ecology
Show notes Mentioned in the episode The Book of Trespass By Nick Hayes https://astridardagh.com https://www.evabakkeslett.com www.thecoferenceofthebirds.net Biographies Eva Eva Bakkeslett is an artist, filmmaker, curator and gentle activist, exploring the potential for social change through gentle actions and subtle mind-shifts. Her socially engaged practice often combines film, participatory events and workshops; She frequently collaborates with other artist, activists, scientist and engaged people in her work. Eva creates spaces and experiences that challenge our thinking and unravel new...
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Dr. Rich Blundell & Rita Leduc. Collaborating with Nature
Arts & Ecology
Arts & Ecology is a new podcast all about the vital role art and culture play in creating a regenerative future. Each season we ask artists, authors, and curators one question. This season we ask, how can we tell better stories? This week's guests are ecologist Dr. Rich Blundell and artist Rita Leduc. Guest Bios: Rich My lived-experience is a deeply reciprocal relationship of continuity with nature. Over a this has provided access to an inexhaustible source of natural knowledge. But when the science I "know" is coupled to first-hand participation in the story of...
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Ben Goldsmith: Loss, Grief and the Wonder of Nature.
Arts & Ecology
Arts & Ecology is a new podcast all about the vital role art and culture play in creating a regenerative future. Each season we ask artists, authors, and curators one question. This season we ask, How can we tell better stories? In this episode, Natasha is in conversation with author, environmentalist, and financier Ben Goldsmith. Ben is a British environmentalist and financier. He is a leading light in the rewilding movement in Britain and Europe, as well as a pioneer of green investment. Ben and his wife, Jemima, are rewilding their farm in Somerset,...
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Sharon Blackie: Re-enchanting stories
Arts & Ecology
Arts & Ecology is a new podcast all about the vital role art and culture play in creating a regenerative future. Each season we ask artists, authors, and curators one question. This season we ask, How can we tell better stories? In this episode, Natasha speaks with author, mythologist, and pyschologist Sharon Blackie. Dr. Sharon Blackie is an award-winning writer, psychologist and mythologist. Her highly acclaimed books, courses, lectures and workshops are focused on the development of the mythic imagination, and on the relevance of myths, fairy tales and folk...
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Reimagining Culture: Art and Technology for an Ecological Age with James Bridle
Arts & Ecology
Arts and Ecology is a brand new podcast about the vital role art and culture plays in creating a regenerative future. This season we ask authors, artists, and curators one question: How can we tell better stories? James Bridle is a writer, artist and technologist. Their artworks have been commissioned by galleries and institutions and exhibited worldwide and on the internet. Their writing has appeared in magazines and newspapers including Wired, the Atlantic, the New Statesman, the Guardian, and the Financial Times. They are the author of 'New Dark Age' (2018) and 'Ways of Being'...
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Art and Activism: Acknowledging Complexity with Ackroyd & Harvey
Arts & Ecology
Arts & Ecology is a new podcast all about the vital role art and culture play in creating a regenerative future. This season we ask artists, authors, anc curators one question: How can we tell better stories? Heather Ackroyd and Dan Harvey (b. 1959/1959 England) are internationally acclaimed for creating works that intersect art, activism, architecture, biology, ecology and history. Referencing memory and time, nature and culture, urban political ecologies, the climate emergency and degradation of the living planet, their time-based practice reveals an intrinsic bias towards...
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Katherine May: Listening to our Senses in Uncertain Times
Arts & Ecology
Arts & Ecology is a new podcast all about the vital role art and culture play in creating a regenerative future. This season we ask authors, artists and curators one question, “How can we tell better stories?” Not just about the many crises we face but about the regenerative future so many of us are working hard to build. This week, we speak with author Katherine May. Katherine is an internationally bestselling author and podcaster living in Whitstable, UK. Her most recent book, became an instant New York Times and Sunday Times bestseller. Her internationally...
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Season 2 Trailer
Arts & Ecology
Arts and Ecology is a podcast about the vital role art and culture play in creating a regenerative future. This season we ask one question, “How can we tell better stories?” And not just about the many crises we face but about the regenerative future so many of us are working hard to build. Join your host, Natasha Rivett-Carnac, for these in-depth conversations with artists, curators, and authors across a range of subjects and discover how you might bring a fresh perspective on story telling into your own practice
info_outlineIn this inaugural episode, Arts and Ecology co-host Natasha Rivett-Carnac and O + O Executive Producer Sarah Thomas discuss “Our Time on Earth,” a major multimedia exhibition currently running at the Barbican in London with co-curator Caroline Till. Till is the co-founder of FRANKLINTILL, a research agency exploring design, colour, and material innovation for a sustainable future.
You’ll also hear from two teams who collaborated on exhibition pieces. Jonathan Chippindale, CEO of the award-winning digital retail agency, Holition, and George Monbiot, writer, Guardian columnist and environmental activist bring us The World Beneath Our Feet. The piece was inspired by “The Wonders of Soil,” the first chapter in Monbiot’s latest book, Regenesis: Feeding the World Without Devouring the Planet.
Next, we hear from Anab Jain and Jon Ardern, the co-founders of Superflux, an award-winning experimental design agency creating visceral experiences that bring future possibilities into the present. Their exhibition piece, a lavish multi-species banquet, is entitled, Refuge for Resurgence.
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Notes and Resources
To explore more about the interconnection between art, ecology, and culture, subscribe to the Dartington Arts School’s podcast Arts and Ecology.
Natasha Rivett-Carnac, curator, Arts and Ecology, Dartington School of Arts
The exhibit Our Time on Earth, created by Caroline Till and Kate Franklin, will be at the Barbican in London from Thursday, 5 May to Monday, 29 Aug 2022.
Caroline Till is Co-Founder of FRANKLINTILL. Her book, co-written with business partner and co-curator, Kate Franklin, is Radical Matter: Rethinking Materials for a Sustainable Future and can be purchased here or in the US, here.
Jonathan Chippindale, is CEO of Holition.
You can get George Monbiot’s latest book, Regenisis: Feeding the World Without Devouring the Planet, here. Or in the US, here.
Anab Jain and John Arden are co-founders of Superflux.
You can listen to Jain and Arden’s full sound piece accompanying their exhibition piece, Refuge for Resurgence, here.
This week at Dartington
July 6th - 9th: Dartington Playgoers will be giving an open air performance of Shakespeare's as you like it.
July 9th: Mbira player Millicent Chopin performs storytelling through music and dance.
Make sure to come along to our Saturday market on 9th July, showcasing the best local food and more.
July 8th - 17th: Ways with Words, a festival of words and ideas will be on the Dartington estate.
In the gallery we have a retrospective of potter Marianne de Trey.