This 32-page self-published newspaper provides a lateral documentation of creative responses to a changing climate from practitioners both local and international. It is a project that attempts to disrupt existing notions of eco-aesthetics and trace the movement of alternative modes of being, seeing, and relating to the more-than-human. The existential implications of living and dying in the Anthropocene, or the current geological epoch defined by human activity on the planet, are addressed through a variety of submissions from drone poetry to peat bog running.
White space, here symbolizing landmass, disappears as the figurative sea levels begin to rise—claustrophobia ensues. The publication contains works by internationally based contemporary artists and writers whose practices engage with the urgent questions of ecology. The works respond to the varying levels of disconnection that define our way of relating to the non-human, exploring topics such as nature deficit disorder and collective denial.
But There Is No Land Near The End is the debut publication of A+E, a multidisciplinary collective from Glasgow that seeks to navigate the intersection of art and ecology while exercising a departure from anthropocentric rationale.