ECOLOGICAL GYRE THEORY: VORTEXTUAL THINKING AFTER THE ECOLOGICAL TURN

Presented by Chantelle Mitchell & Jaxon Waterhouse

Hosted by ACCA
22/09/2020
Talk #95

Image: Edgar Allan Poe. A Descent into the Maelstrom. Illustrated by Charles McCurdy. Printed for William R. Scott. New York: The Powgen Press, [March 1936]

CHANTELLE MITCHELL and JAXON WATERHOUSE Present: ‘Ecological Gyre Theory: vortextual thinking after the ecological turn’

In collaboration with the Australian Centre for Contemporary Art

In this talk Mitchel and Waterhouse dicuss their ongoing interdisciplinary research practice, Ecological Gyre Theory (EGT), extending ecological discourses through applications to sites, contexts and practices. EGT manifests in performative and written forms, seeking alternate possibilities of knowing and being in the Anthropocene

CHANTELLE MITCHELL is a curator/poet, working with archives, ecology and the Anthropocene. She runs the SEVENTH Emerging Writers Program and produces for writing organisation Free Association.

JAXON WATERHOUSE is a fomer PhD candidate, writer and publisher, examining archival potentialities of place and greening philosophy.