Nature
The black music of herbs.
Hawthorn is a plant that exudes the hospitality of an open heart.
“The blood of the thing is the truth of the thing.”
The artist talks about reduced attention spans, nature, and being separated from our electronic devices.
Vast plates shifted littler ones / with constant sounds and heat terrible / Then there was a cleft and so a river
Exploring the lost connection between aesthetics and science.
A musical that argues against itself, posing more questions than it could ever attempt to answer.
“A precisely aimed reach into the immeasurable flow of things.”
Leonard changed lanes without using his blinker, as was his habit.
Choreographer Jen Rosenblit interrogates the curiosity for difference inside a regime of the “natural.”
Artist Heidi Norton and philosopher Michael Marder discuss the ethics of plants and differentiate between “nature” and “ecology.”
Photographer Björn Larsson discusses the perception shifts he experienced when documenting the miraculously slow and unrelenting growth of nature.
Beyond the pastoral, James Sherry engages our biosphere with the syncretic Oops! Environmental Poetics.
A swarm of biotechnological robot drones defends a fragile Eden from invasive species. The Earth’s hydrology cycles through a vast suspended infrastructure; 2,000 synchronized parts dance for droughts, rains, and floods.
Veronika Vogler and Adam Stennett talk, via text message, about his live-in performance piece, the influence of nature and how we are all capable of being an artist.
SHIJO-OHASHI
Without forgetting
I am a child
Here is an attractively printed 500-plus-page anthology of “North American Postmodern Pastoral Poetry,” culled from work first published since 1995 and divided into four largely arbitrary piles.
