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Tag: Rot

  • Coring Europa / induction rhetoric

    Coring Europa / induction rhetoric

    Two new poems by Josh Allsop, whose research explores the experience of difficulty in the poetries of Geoffrey Hill and J.H. Prynne.

  • Spoiled Waters Spilled

    Spoiled Waters Spilled

    Previewing an exhibition exploring rivers, contamination and cross-border circulation. Part of Manifesta 13 Les Parallèles du Sud.

  • Pharmakeia

    Pharmakeia

    The Circe myth updated for the age of synthetic biology: disconcerting new writing by Erin Rogers, with accompanying art by John Stark.

  • Editorial: Rot

    Editorial: Rot

    Editor Julia Cavicchi introduces Rot, a section of The Learned Pig exploring multispecies creativity through modest tales of collaboration and coexistence.

  • In The Fray

    In The Fray

    “Sewing is an act of care and kindness,” says artist Hana Wilde. “I look for the shared textures, colours and forms between the human and non-human.”

  • Petites Morts

    Petites Morts

    An ongoing photographic collaboration between artist Nadège Meriau and mushrooms gathered from an ancient woodland in North London.

  • Redundant, Outdated, Trivial

    Redundant, Outdated, Trivial

    In praise of decomposition, fermentation and transformation by Fin Jordão, the water and waste officer at the Centre for Alternative Technology in Wales.

  • Collaborations on the Corner

    Collaborations on the Corner

    Collaboratively produced paintings on cardboard by Phill Hopkins and Jadene Imbush – part of a larger project on the UK’s burgeoning homelessness crisis.

  • Canopic Jars: the Afterlife of Matter

    Canopic Jars: the Afterlife of Matter

    Artists Anna Walker and Genie Poretzky-Lee make use of glass jars as containers for an experimental process of growth and transformation.

  • Open Call: Rot

    Open Call: Rot

      *** Rot is currently closed for submissions. We will reopen again soon. You can sign up to our newsletter for updates. ***     The world is full of both collaborations and contaminations. The evolutionary theory of symbiogenesis tells us that we are born of indigestion; some 2 billion years ago, one bacterial cell…