Paper short abstract:

Ecoimaginaries brings together creative and cultural collectives working with art, ecologies and alternative technologies. The focus is on practice growing relations and resilience over long periods of time through work with communities: embodying creative practices woven with the life of the Land.

Paper long abstract:

This discussion considers long-term, place-based creative practice engagements as modes of ecological communication.

The Ecoimaginaries panel brings together creative collectives, Indigenous artists and cultural workers working with art, ecologies and alternative technology cultures. The focus is on art that grows relations and resilience over long periods of time through work with communities, embodying ancient and emergent cultural practices in ways that are woven with the life of the Land.

Emphasising that technologies, as much as animal ecologies, are expressions of place and specific locals, the panel explores processes, techniques and qualities of reframing and reimagining co-created infrastructures and communications that serve more-than-human ecologies - from seed archives growing protected commons in germplasm, digital embodied networks for community knowledge, and transcultural media art installations that connect with globally migrating birds.

The discussion builds on presentations by artists, technologists involved in the Ecological Imaginaries programme, working to develop a community-driven approach to eco-social change, by which creativity engagements are in service to ecological flourishing. The panel is designed through a community approach to support creative practices and imaginative activism that deeply work with Indigenous perspectives, working for reciprocal relationships with the land and more-than-human beings.