These questions were generated as a result of the first MECO Research Camp, held at the Bundanon Trust Arthur and Yvonne Boyd Education Centre, Riversdale NSW from July 2 – 5, 2015.
- How could we forget Gaia?
- Do we value the non-human for its own sake or because it is good for us?
- Wither Finitude?
- What do we do when we know we have limits (to time) (to resources)?
- Why do we behave as if we don’t have limits?
- Why do we reach for convenience?
- Why do objects seem smaller, the further away they are?
- How can we engage with ‘nature’ in art but not always treat it as wild/ sublime – ie. a basis for subsistence and economic survival?
- Does the earth care what we do?
- Does a lyrebird care?
- Does grass care?
- Does bacteria care?
- Define care.
- Does a human care?
- How to care with skin in the game?
- How to care like a sociable object?
- Where do (I) (we) care?
- Why do (I) (we) care?
- What just forms of relation with non-human (objects/ animals) do not involve self/ othering?
- What about birds and drones?
- Prehension, just humans objects animals?
- How does all of this, inform my practice?
- Does the idea of connecting animal, mineral, or vegetable move us past our fear for the body?
- Have we grown out of our fear of technology being separate to us and should we be concerned for technology becoming/ being a part of us?
- Would it be possible to make a structure that reflects the idea of animal, mineral and vegetable being one that we could exist with?
- Does nature abstract ecology?
- Is this a time for melancholia?
- How do we care for entropy?
- What does thought do?
- How do we mourn without nostalgia (presupposition that nostalgia is a problem)?
- Where is sympathy?
- Can we celebrate entanglement?
- When is it not a problem to mourn with nostalgia?
- When is it a problem to mourn with nostalgia?
- If I am living in the Anthropocene and implicated. Entangled what might I invest on how much I respond in practices, daily life choices, relations with “earth others”?
- What is the Anthropocene good for?
- How do we turn towards (orientate) the Anthropocene?
- Can the Anthropocene invigorate truly critical work?