I’m in Ringkøbing, West Jutland, Denmark, for a two-week art and nature lab called Enchanting Village, creating a mirror installation – this time outside, on an island in a duck pond!
Category: environment
Yesterday I read that Ireland’s data centres used 21% of the country’s electricity last year – more than the amount consumed by all of itsRead More
As spring turns into summer, I am watching a crows’ nest from my window, where two babies have just hatched and the parents are busyRead More
My article, “Digital Mobility / Mobile Thinking” appears in the first volume of Kultura Nova’s four-volume series on mobility, which is titled “Mobility in Culture: Conceptual Frameworks and Approaches”.
Recently I travelled from one side of the world to the other. This is something I, and many other people, have grown accustomed to beRead More
The pandemic has thrown into sharp relief the massive inequalities on which the “old normal” world was built on, and given us privileged people a taste of what has long been the reality for far too many people all over the world. We cannot scream about our rights to move and consume when that lifestyle is based on so many others being denied those same rights.
Last year, UpStage participated in “Letters to the Earth” – organised by theatre people in the UK, in response to the climate emergency. The publicRead More
Chickens, cyberformance and the pandemic: Helen reflects on how her “sabbatical” is turning out to be very different to what she had expected.
As catastrophic fires burn out of control across large areas of Australia, decimating wildlife and ancient forests as well as taking out homes and humans,Read More
An Eichelhäher visited our street yesterday. I’d never seen one before, and it took a while to identify it.