A collaborative essay by Kim V. Goldsmith, Narelle Vogel, Joanne Stead, Anna Glynn, Tracy Luff, Jane Richens, Laura Baker and Tania Hartigan, October 2024. First published on ClimateCultures, 21 October 2024 Regional Futures: An Entangled Existenceย is a collection of artworks informed by an intimate knowledge of Regional New South Wales, created by seven female artists …
Language of intent
A red moon rising through the smoke haze of the droughted landscape of our farm near Collie NSW in the 2006-07 bushfire season, causing some of the worst bushfire smoke since records began, triggering an increase in the incidence of asthma. This smoke was from fires hundreds of kilometres away. Photo: Kim V. Goldsmith, November …
SOIL+Artist-in-Residence: Winter 2024
'Willydah', Narromine, 11 July 2024 Willydah, Narromine NSW This post documents the first field recording trip to the farm that the SOIL+AiR creative future landscapes project will be based at for the next year. SOIL+AiR is a creative rural research residency aiming to explore the rural landscapes and communities of the Narromine Shire in Central West NSW, …
A future shaped by sound
Are the places we live and work so uninhabitable, so disconnected from the natural world, that our only option is to reproduce sounds that keep us sane and healthy? Land once cleared for grazing is now home to a wind farm on Wiradjuri Country, Central West NSW (2022) As Iโve been working on my upcoming …
Listening as a moral and political act
One chilly morning in April, I rose before dawn to listen to a conversation hosted by Colorado College (USA) on Environmental Philosophy and the Ethics of Attention. I was prompted to register for this international webinar because of my interest in how I might dig more deeply into the issues and themes that have been bait …
