Reworlding
Guest edited by artist, educator, and ART PAPERS contributing editor Michael Jones McKean, Reworlding—our first fully online issue—is a thematic exploration of the planetary.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
— Michael Jones McKean, Editor’s Letter
— Sophie Strand, Ecotone (n.)
— On Biodiversity: a conversation between Timur Si-Qin and Haley Mellin
— Del Harrow, A Ceramic Materials Atlas
— Michael Jones McKean, Earth Studies
— Gean Moreno + Stephanie Wakefield, Imagination Dead Imagine
— Stephanie Bailey, The Whale in the Room: How to Make an Old World New
— Teaching Between Worlds Roundtable: Nato Thompson + Michael Jones McKean + Arnold Kemp + Gordon Hall + Aki Sasamoto + Angela Dufresne + Rodrigo Valenzuela
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Teaching Between Worlds
“It becomes more and more difficult in the given academic structures to figure out how to make these kinds of spaces of inquiry. But I’m still having a blast, and my students are still stabbing me through the heart and the eyes every day.”
Reworlding
What separates us, the living, from our recent ancestors, is that we have inadvertently become not just people of the planet, but planetary people. And as planetary folk, we’re the generational interlocutors of interlocking, simultaneous and earth-scaled challenges—something called the polycrisis.
A Ceramic Materials Atlas
Organizing these materials in our studio is the outermost tip of a complex global distribution network of intricate webs of highways, shipping routes, rail lines, and flight paths—a planetary vascular system and neural network, a pulsing flow of matter and information covering the surface of the earth.
On Biodiversity—Timur Si-Qin and Haley Mellin in Conversation
I think that you and I both approach the natural world similarly with our work. In a meditative and devotional way, in which we try to look deeper and deeper into the visuality and details of nature.
Earth Studies
Despite the diminutive size of our bodies, the Earth, in all its grand scale and complexity, is managing to grow inside us.
How To Make an Old World New?
Notes on the Whales in the Room
Entwined with the whaling industry, then, which peaked in the mid-19th century, was the violence of a colonial modernity that rendered the world open for the taking.
Imagination Dead Imagine
Without a Future, We Can Be Forever
Ecotone
In ecology, a place that comes into being only when two other places meet, is called the ecotone.