Negotiating Belonging 2023-2025

ARE Journal is a selection of essays, workshop notes, and collective writings. It emerged from many conversations, initially with Lucia Farinati, and thereafter between Davina Kirkpatrick, Jo Milne, and Anna Walker. Yet, it is not only these dialogues, and the submissions from participating artists/researchers that shaped it. We also want to acknowledge the role of technology. Since its inception, technology has been an integral part of ARE's research. Zoom meetings, video recordings, and digital transmissions have mediated our interactions. Technology has not only shaped how we collaborate but also how we think and create work, how we communicate, and how we archive our work. ARE's journal is an evolving trace, resisting closure, remaining open. It extends an invitation to ongoing dialogue, to movement and making, to research and thought. Rather than a fixed archive, it forms an alternative set of relational experiences. The knowledge it holds is not static but networked, collaborative, and always in process.

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Negotiating Belonging; Photographs, text, scultpures, video and sound, ongoing.
Sitting in, sitting with, sitting beside, being part of... belonging, being.

For the past couple of years, I have been consciously walking the same pathway across fields, ponds, and copses. Incedently, for it is not the reason I walk, I have amassed hundreds of photographs, videos and sound recordings, as well as written texts: thoughts, stories and ecological research. The practice of walking the same path repeatedly creates a space where I am become the ecosystem I am observing, integrating its rhythms and changes. Water defines where I walk, as ponds expand, and streams become brooks. Negotiating Belonging, is a converstaion with water, with the land that it swamps, and the animals, birds, insects, trees, et al. that interact with the changing weather patterns. It is about my relationship with the place as it is about the place itself.
September 2023 - December 2024 (ongoing)