Collaborative Survival

Collaborative Survival as a concept was coined by Anthropologist Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing, and features in her book The Mushroom at the End of the World, On the Possibility of Life in Capitalist Ruins. ‘Neither tales of progress nor of ruin tell us how to think about collaborative survival. Collaboration means working across difference… the diversityContinue reading “Collaborative Survival”

Queer River – five years on

I set up Queer River five years ago in 2020, as we emerged from lockdown, as a way to walk, talk and make with my local river, the Hampshire Avon, which begins its journey near my home in the Vale of Pewsey in mid Wiltshire. The original intention was to pay attention to the riverContinue reading “Queer River – five years on”

New Writing: Queer River and Creative Engagements with Ecologies of Place

‘Artist James Aldridge shares insights from Iain Biggs’ and Mary Modeen’s book Creative Engagements with Ecologies of Place and resonances with his own projects exploring the value of outsiders’ viewpoints and voices not often heard in discussions on the Earth Crisis’ Mark Goldthorpe, Climate Cultures Follow this link to have a read of this newContinue reading “New Writing: Queer River and Creative Engagements with Ecologies of Place”