NSotA Work 2025
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This piece is a side-by-side work of fiction and nonfiction that aims to approach the question of nonviolence and violence in activism.
In the fictional element, / and burn, each title, divided by a slash, is taken from my seminar notes. The nonfiction component, / and accompany, is an essay which aims to bring Judith Butler and Andreas Malm into conversation in order to explore whether violence is ever legitimate in a context of climate activism.
The illustrations are my own. I hope to add to these, as well as carry out future reading and writing which picks up upon some of the questions I was left with. I'd also like to produce a physcal version of this work.
Please click on the image to see the pieces next to each other on this site or alternatively here to see the PDFs (which contain citations).
Three short films about death
This video project was carried out alongside Venetia Allan and Rhona Eve Clews, two of my fellow Nsotans.
Our aim was to think about the part that death plays in healing, and cultural healing. My contribution was in documenting the making of oak gall ink, a traditional pigment used for most mediaeval manuscripts. Oak gall wasps biologically hack leaf buds, prompting the tree to produce a little gall or oak apple in which the wasp lays its eggs.
When making the film, I was thinking about the death of traditional knowledge, the partial deaths of the local (and old) oak trees in lending their material, and the death of the oak gall wasp in its strange, coevolved lifecycle. I hope that when the internet breaks we'll be making ink like this again.
I produced some of the animated titles, edited the video, and made the music.
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