Tag: #anthropoceneart
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The Living City
Methods, brought together a body of work of work by practitioners and educators whose practices move fluidly across design, art, teaching pedagogy, and built form. It foregrounded research not as something that follows making, but as something embedded within it. I will write a longer post on that soon, but I thought i’d share my…
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Material ecologies of post-mining cities
The challenged of being a creative, practice researchers, who working with artistic practice as, the predominant medium, is that, often people seem to overlook the subject matter of the research, when cThe challenge of being a creative, practice researcher who works with artistic practice as the predominant medium is that people often overlook the research’s…
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Autumn: some reflections , and some books
It’s once again autumn here in Johannesburg. It’s also mid-semester break, which can sometimes be the only time I get in the year to make work more or less uninterrupted. These seven odd days have proved to be golden in the past years; I’ve gotten most of my productive work done in them for the…
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I’m thinking of becoming a Dadaist
do not be alarmed the bellow should be considered to be satire…see ‘The mutterings project’ for prior reference. One reaches a moment in ones life, where the future seems to stretch out into infinite dullness. filled with administration and management, of things and others- lackluster. No amount of incentive seems to, be enough to band-aid…
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Gathering, a carrier bag theory of art making
What have I been up to recently? Are you wondering? In the post-doctoral land, in the way that I work, I suppose I’m in a gathering phase, something about weathering, the weather, and breathing in this altered atmosphere. They may seem to be somewhat unrelated things. Nevertheless, in the turn of my mind, they are…
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Process
A few reflections on my process of working, in Cyanotype and refection on cultivating creativity.
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Breath in the extractive zone
Some visual reflections, on the post-extractivist landscapes and legacies conference, I attended in Dublin in July.
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Encounter:
revised, presentation – UCD humanities institute: post-extractivist landscapes and legacies conference, July 2023. Encounter : addressing critical materialises in post-extractive urban terrains through rubbling – Draft paper
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‘Snow Studies’ mattering with Helsinki’s urban terrains
In December of 2022, Zen Marie, Alex Arteaga and myself, we asked to convene, a creative workshop as part of the Kuva research days 2022, entitled the ‘City as Space of Rules and Dreaming’ a project funded by the Kone foundation. You can read more about it here. We proposed to present a series of…
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The body matters – ARA 2020 – Presentation
Making the body and materials present in post-extractive urban terrains in response to issues of the Anthropocene through speculative and performative practices Brigitta Stone-Johnson The University of the Witwatersrand, school of architecture and planning 2025 – Peer Reviewed Publication on wired space wits As a city founded on Gold mining in the 1890s, as we…
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Resistance to Ruin
Resistance To Ruin – Lithic Encounters Have you ever noticed that the wild or wilderness is always elsewhere? Ellipsis Journal of Creative Research, Special issues 2021 – Joburg Lasts Authors: Brigitta Stone-Johnson Andrea Hayes Access the full Article and website
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Mapping Extractive Histories – 2022
Mapping Extractive HistoriesInstallation by Brigitta Stone-Johnson and Chloë Shain While the term “Anthropocene” attempts to define our current environmental moment as a product of human impact on the environment and on the climate, this project challenges the universal humanism implied in this term. Grappling with the politics of the Anthropocene grounded in Kathryn Yussoff’s A…
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Making Odd Kin – 2022
Gathering Oddkin, Nirox Foundation winter sculpture fair – Good Neighbors 7may-31 August 2022 BRIGITTA STONE-JOHNSON SOUTH AFRICA Gathering oddkin, 2022 Over the last two hundred years, humans have moved from beings that affect their immediate dwelling places to epoch-altering geo-writers. Since the industrial age, we have acted as if non-living things had neither life nor…