
Ear to the Ground
- Publisher
- Art and Theory Publishing
- Year
- 2020
- ISBN
- 9789151943824
- Specifications
- Softcover
47 pages
30 x 25 cm
Editor: Ulrika Sparre
Text by Virginia MacKenny, Johan Redin, Jacquelyn Davis, Virginia Marano, Sue Spaid, Marti Manen
Design by Kolqvist
The starting point is a search for the spiritual and the physical in nature, and how these relationships are created and transformed. Landscapes of rock survey the archipelago of Stockholm, the desert of Death Valley and the caves of nomads in South Africa. The project seeks to break down distance, and challenge the perception that there is a nature that exists apart from us. In order to face the threat of climate change, the argument goes, we must give voice to non-human actors: the gardens, the cities, the stones, the glaciers. The volume takes the reader on a lithic adventure, a visual journey providing an overview of the artworks and materials collected throughout the project.