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Curating As Open Process: Conversations Between Political Ecology And Artistic Research

Article
2026
A reflection on curating as an open, relational process, tracing conversations between political ecology and artistic research through the Cosmopolis platform and related projects. The article considers how artists working across ecological, Indigenous, feminist and community-based practices challenge dominant ideas of nature, knowledge and the human. [read more]
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ESSAY: Shigeo Toya’s Woods III.

QAGOMA
September 2014
The ‘mori’ (Woods) is not simply the natural forest, but it encompasses the forms of the city and nature as viewed from the future. And that view from the future can also be called the view that the dead have on the present. [read more]