9 – 11 November 2016, Dartington Hall
Feeding the Insatiable featured thinkers and creatives from across the world, with an opening keynote event from The Land Art Generator Initiative (Robert Ferry and Elizabeth Monoian) with ecoartist / producer Chris Fremantle from eco/art/scot/land. Ethnographer of Futures Laura Watts presents the second keynote on Day 2 of the summit. Other sessions focus on Ecologies, Shaping the World, Artist projects, Communicating, Energy Generation and Poetics.
Amongst the international stable of presenters were Cathy Fitzgerald an artist and Irish Green Party’s spokesperson on Forestry; David Haley who has written extensively on art and uncertainty; Beth Carruthers, one of the key art and sustainability theorists working with deep ecology approaches; Hannah Imlach a young artist from Scotland whose recent projects directly engage with renewables; Keynoter Laura Watts describes herself as a writer, poet, and ethnographer of futures – she is one of the authors of recently-published ebban an flowan along with Alec Finlay and Alistair Peebles; Ian Garrett is a key theorist and practitioner of sustainable design for theatre and behind Canada’s Center for Sustainable Practice in the Arts; and finally Loraine Leeson one of the foremost practitioners of socially engaged art in the UK, currently working with a group of geezers on renewables on the River Lee in East London. And these are only some of the people presenting…
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