Artist and activist James Brady will be delivering the Commonweal Lecture for 2018 – Commonweal’s 60th anniversary. His topic will be la ZAD, a bold experiment in common living in rural France. We asked him to tell us about la ZAD and why it deserves us our attention right now. Continue reading Improvising the commons: lessons from la ZAD
Mark Goldthorpe runs the ClimateCultures project, which showcases ‘contributions by artists, curators or researchers working on many aspects of environmental or climate change’. Its strapline is ‘Creative conversations for the Anthropocene’ (the era when human influence dominates climate and environment), and we took the direct approach by starting a conversation with Mark himself about climate, culture, violence and imagination… Continue reading If the Anthropocene is violence, what is nonviolence? An interview with Mark Goldthorpe
‘the sea cannot be depleted‘ is an online artwork that uses sound and spoken word to call attention to the Solway Firth. Continue reading Art, activism and the nuclear sea: an interview with Wallace Heim