Please join use for the book launch of
 

SYSTEMS COLLAPSE:

Meeting The Lough On Its Own Terms

at Glue, Artists Book Fair, ICA

12-13th September


A partnership with Friends of the Earth NI, Digital Art Studios, Sonic Arts Research Centre QUB, PS²  (Belfast), and Banner Repeater (London),

kindly supported by Arts Council England, PS2, CSM, FotE and DAS.

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Algae blooms offer a symptom of the climate crisis that emphasises
the interconnectedness of vulnerable ecosystems with human-made systems.

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With contributions from James Orr (director, FotE NI), Thomas L Muinzer (writer and eco-lawyer), Lucy Sollit (Philosopher And Creative Director), Harun Morrison artist and writer, and independent curator Kirsten Cooke.

 

• Meeting The Lough On Its Own Terms.  Conversation: James Orr (Director, FotE NI) and Ami Clarke.

• Ireland’s Ancient Legal System: Finding Kin At Lough Neagh by Thomas L Muinzer, (Aberdeen University, Author of UK’s Climate Change Act: Climate and Energy Governance for the UK Low Carbon Transition: The Climate Change Act 2008 (Palgrave: UK, 2018))            

• The Role Of Art & Artifice In Bringing Technology Into Dialogue With Multispecies Justice. Conversation: Lucy Solitt (Philosopher And Creative Director) and Ami Clarke.                          

• Interview (short excerpt). Harun Morrison, artist and writer and Ami Clarke.               

• The Turbid Image. Short conversation: Independent Curator: Kirsten Cooke and Ami Clarke.   

The work addresses the ecological challenges at Lough Neagh, the largest body of water in Ireland and the UK, that was overwhelmed by algae blooms in the summer of 2023, and remains so today.  Whilst the work focuses on Lough Neagh, it speaks to much broader concerns regarding how environmental neglect affects both democratic processes, and public health, as neoliberal policies entangle with algae blooms. 

The book holds a selection of writings, social media posts, interviews and texts, some informal, some more formal, some developed over long durations, that came out of the project development, and the many talks and workshops during the arts programme for the exhibitions: Meeting the Lough On Its Own Terms in Belfast and London.
 

Purchase here: https://www.bannerrepeater.org/meeting-the-lough-book

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