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Shelley Watters.

Installation view: Compost is so hot, Shelley Watters

https://www.shelleywatters.com/compostissohot/

Compost as both methodology and ‘embodied artistic practice’, and as an ‘act of repair’ across a multidisciplinary approach including photography, textile, sculpture and sound.

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Barney Pau

Hairy Salad, Barney Pau

https://www.barneypau.com/hairy-salad

This interactive artwork demonstrates biodiversity in nutrition, game-ifying the elements of a salad and mapping them to a garden.

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Adrienn Ujhazi

Artist is composted, Adrienn Ujhazi

Adrienn collected her waste for 24 hours, and installed it in a glass box. She added her DNA, collected via saliva, to add to the box, to examine the decomposition of the materials and the formation of living compost.

http://adriennujhazi.com/artist-is-composted-2020/

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Monash Form x Content—COMPOSTING Feminisms and the Environmental Humanities

It all begins with an idea.

A conversation between Associate Professor Astrida Neimanis and Dr Jennifer Mae Hamilton, hosted by Dr Djuke Veldhuis, in which composting provides both the metaphor and the method for addressing climate catastrophe from an eco-feminist viewpoint. The discussion includes ideas of composting as a methodology for inquiry and practice, while interrogating the role of hetero-patriarchy and gendered and colonial approaches, and examining the determinations of language in culture and academic discourse.

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Crying Glacier

Crying Glacier, a short documentary film by Lutz Stautner, featuring audio work by Ludwig Berger, a sound artist who gives voice to other-than-human experience. Of particular interest is his speculative approach to listening.

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