Our Future with Nature

Our Future with Nature looks at how artistic and scientific practices can supplement and enrich one another as we attempt to face the processes and consequences of climate change. It expands on ideas presented the exhibitions The Writing of Nature and Nature-scape, held by SixtyEight Art Institute as part of the Erasmus+ project C6: Creativity, Culture and Collaboration to Combat Climate Change.

It features a conversation between the Danish artists Asmund Havsteen-Mikkelsen and Morten Poulsen on the topics of aesthetics, protest and rewilding, with reference to their common engagement with the controversial mining operations at Garzweiler in the Hambach forest, Poulsen’s practice of close listening, and Havsteen-Mikkelsen’s rewilding initiatives. Namitha Aravind, a participant in the educational workshop held by SixtyEight as part of the C6 project, writes about her experience of taking part in seed workshop conducted by Swedish artist Åsa Sonjasdotter, while soil scientist Carsten W. Mueller discusses soils in relation to the melting of ice caused by climate change, and to the work of Italian artist Roberto Ghezzi and his Naturografie works.

Finnish artist Saara-Maria Kariranta writes about practicing empathy with other creatures such as insects, and Rafael Villares, who represented Cuba at the Venice Biennale 2022, expands on how artists and scientists can work in common. The atmospheric scientist Nora Zannoni of the National Research Council, Italy, unfolds some of the processes of the global environmental system, focusing on the Arctic and how important changes in our climate can be seen more extremely there. The book also features introductions to the topic and the project by Christopher Sand-Iversen of SixtyEight Art Institute and Claus Beier of the Department of Geosciences and Natural Resource Management, University of Copenhagen.

The texts are accompanied by full colour documentation of the exhibitions.

Softcover

124 pages

ISBN: 978-87-972365-9-8