Sheila is really happy to be one of the contributors to the Green Guide for the United Kingdom, the 8th in the series Creative Responses to Sustainability. The UK version of the Guide was put together by Invisible Flock with ASEF. See the Press Release below for further info:
New publication interrogating how artists can challenge the immense complexities of our time released
The Asia-Europe Foundation (ASEF) has collaborated with Yorkshire based interactive arts studio Invisible Flock to produce the UK’s first Green Guide, 8th in the series of Creative Responses to Sustainability.
Creative Responses to Sustainability: UK Green Guide uniquely presents a patchwork of stories asking how creative practices can challenge dominant discourse on the climate crisis.
The publication is part of a series published by ASEF’s arts website culture360.ASEF.org since 2015. Previous iterations focused on Spain, Portugal, Indonesia, Korea, Australia and Singapore. This new version brings together creative responses, articles and a series of over 30 conversations with artists, collectives and organisations from across the UK.
All of those featured have artistic practices grounded in sustainable, ecological, environmental and/or climate-based understandings.
The publication speaks to Amitav Ghosh’s quote from The Great Derangement: Climate Change and the Unthinkable where he suggested that “When future generations look back upon the Great Derangement they will certainly blame the leaders and politicians of this time for their failure to address the climate crisis. But they may well hold artists and writers to be equally culpable – for the imagining of possibilities is not after all, the job of politicians and bureaucrats.”
In the role of both researcher and designer Invisible Flock have focussed on unravelling a breadth of approaches to explore the challenges we all face, guided by their own environmentally focussed practice.
Victoria Pratt, Creative Director of Invisible Flock describes how “The guide is not an A-Z of everyone making this type of work in the UK, a solution or a report but is instead a snapshot, a collection of stories and practices across a wide geographical area of the UK, within a moment in time.
We hope this is just the beginning of these conversations, that the publication can provoke ongoing discussion and a shared collection of ideas that can be taken in many new directions.”
Download the Green Guide for the United Kingdom HERE
