Tag: anthropocene
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Artwork and idea in proccess – weaving with carrier bags
Since my primary aim here, is to make a case for practice, and proccess as research method. Laboratory for those hard scientist among you. I though I would share, a recent presentation and workshop I gave in Helsinki, as part of the, °City is sound, city is quicksand° event at Hietsu pavilion! Hosted by the…
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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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Why architects from Africa are not designing buildings, and what the West could learn.
A manifesto in one sentence. Any architect, taking seriously the effect of the built environment on climate change and the role of building construction materials in our rapidly heating world, must conclude that the moral responsibility for architects is to no longer consider making buildings as the primary project of the architectural profession, both now…
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Terraforming Johannesburg
For a while now, those of you who know Johannesburg well may know that most of the mine tailings along the Witwatersrand mining belt have been quietly disappearing. We are observing a significant change in the terrain of Johannesburg as it has existed for the past 100 years. The mining stip has long represented a…
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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…