writings
Art, Place and the Meaning of Home
An essay commissioned by the Vancouver Board of Parks for the Stanley Park Environmental Art Project
In Search of a Deep Aesthetics
Through the Eye of the Heart - In Search of a Deep Aesthetics is a first “working paper” for a book on Aesthetics, Ethics and Environmental Values. A paper given at Thinking Through Nature, University of Oregon, 2008
Intimate Strife: The unbearable intimacy of human/animal relations- published in Leonardo’s Choice: Genetic Technologies and Animals (2009) Carol Gigliotti, ed. Springer, Netherlands
An essay exploring the morally complex relationship between humans and non-human animals and in particular the ethics of using life-forms as media in arts practices.
Drawing on Merleau-Ponty’s work on vision and engagement, among other writings, Returning the Radiant Gaze - Vision and Embodiment in a World of Subjects explores vision as central to relational engagement with world and Other.
Praxis … Acting As If Everything Matters
Drawing from a constellation of influences in philosophy, anthropology and the arts, this paper examines some contemporary Ecological Art works and practices as models of ethical engagement with our environing world.
Dreaming Human Being Animal 2 … the confounding of language
Drawing from Agamben’s The Open and the works of other scholars, DREAMING HUMAN BEING ANIMAL 2 - the confounding of language reconsiders language as shared among all animals, rather than as a point of division between human and non-human animals. A Plenary talk given at Desire Lines symposium on Art and Ecology at Dartington Hall UK, Summer 2007, and a paper given at Nature Matters, York University, October 2007
Dreaming Human Being Animal 1 … a shared ontology
Starting from Heidegger’s statement that “animals are poor in world”, this paper explores the idea of Dasein as not being specific to the human, but rather a quality of being that may be shared among species. Joseph von Uxkull’s work on different perceptual worlds and Agamben’s The Open are also sources.
Arts In Ecology … Mapping the Terrain of Contemporary EcoART Practice and Collaboration
A 26 page report with resources commissioned by the Canadian Commission for UNESCO in 2006 on Arts/Science Collaboration in land-based and community engaged environmentally focused projects. A preliminary report for the 2006 Think-Tank on Arts In Ecology held at Vancouver, Canada
A short article on the role of the arts in environmental awareness and change. Published in Alternatives Journal - the journal of the Environmental Studies Assn. of Canada, 2006
