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Taru Elfving   “Entanglement with others makes life possible, but when one relationship goes awry, the repercussions ripple”[1]   Flying over the Baltic Sea, as the plane approached Copenhagen airport, I gazed at the expanse of blue below me, dotted with wind turbines, and thought for a moment that every white splash of a wave…

Barnaby Drabble in conversation with Oliver Ressler[1]   Barnaby Drabble: Hello, Oliver, thanks for agreeing to this interview. I want to start by asking you about the series of films entitled Everything’s Coming Together While Everything’s Falling Apart which you’re making at the moment about environmental activism. Oliver Ressler: The material for the first film,…

Vanina Saracino   Kiruna, the northernmost town in Sweden, was built at the end of the 19th century to begin the extractive operations of iron ore in what later became one of the largest mines in the world. More recently, the city has become widely known to be “on the move”—dozens of houses were carried…

T.J. Demos[1]   A surge of recent art has engaged ecology in newly complex ways, including by confronting environmental injustice and social violence in aesthetically provocative forms. Consider the visual culture materializing and abetting pipeline blockades and Indigenous sovereignty struggles, including at Standing Rock in the US, with activists defending life, water, and land. Or…