New feels, new forms: art, play and ecological emotion 2022

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Framed as eco-anxiety, climate distress, or ecological grief, encounters with strong ecological emotions are becoming more common. While there is cause for dealing with some of these experiences in a clinical setting, and important work to do grappling with these emotions analytically, through interdisciplinary scholarship, these emotions are also begging for expression. This evening will explore the ways that art makes room for us to hear ourselves and each other in the spaces between words and ideas. Art helps us prise open parts of ourselves we did not know were closed.

Please join us for an evening of film, poetry, music and wordplay. Films by Rowena Potts, Ceridwen Dovey and Daz Chandler. Wordplay by James Dunk, Freya MacDonald, Christine McFetridge, Cameron Muir, Anastasia Murney, Lynda Ng, Kate Stevens, Jamie Wang and Toyah Webb. Poems by Frances Grimshaw. Multispecies drag performance by Laurie Form. Photography by Lena Schlegel. Read the full program here.

This workshop is part of the Nature Feelz: Perspectives and reflections on ecological emotions symposium hosted by the Sydney Environment Institute in partnership with RMIT University's Urban Futures platform.

Header image: Rapture by Paul Rhodes (IG: @morethanhumanart).