The Learned Pig

Art – Thinking – Nature – Writing

Tag: collaboration

  • Compost: Turning the Heap

    Taking time to reflect: artist Kathrin Böhm on sustaining an art practice while resisting the pressure of endlessly producing more projects.

  • The Four Seasons

    The Four Seasons

    A collaborative essay and acoustic piece by Chris Turnbull and Cecilie Bjørgås Jordheim. The project documents an abandoned black walnut grove in Kemptville, Ontario, through acoustic recordings and observation.

  • Cartographies of the Imagination

    Cartographies of the Imagination

    Cartographies of the Imagination explores the outer limits of what a map can be, interrogating the bit of lost land that falls between the pages of an atlas, journeying to places known, unknown, forgotten and fictional.         INTRODUCTION To map a place is to create a whole new one. Maps may begin…

  • Mirror Mirror

    Mirror Mirror

    Tom Lovelace introduces Mirror Mirror, a remote collaborative project involving live performance, photography and digital technologies.

  • Sing the Gloaming

    Sing the Gloaming

    An interview with Professor Simon Kirby and artist/ musicians Tommy Perman and Rob St. John discussing their ongoing collaborative project, Sing the Gloaming.

  • Petites Morts

    Petites Morts

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

  • Growing SCOBY in Inappropriate Contexts

    Growing SCOBY in Inappropriate Contexts

    Artist Bianca Hlywa delves into the process of making collaborative installations using SCOBY – symbiotic cultures of bacteria and yeast.

  • 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.

  • Fields of Knowing

    Fields of Knowing

    Orientation   First, know food From food All things are born By food they live Toward food they move And into food they return ~~ Upanishads     How do we come to know food? Our visual poetic has emerged over a three-day collaborative process in response to The Learned Pig’s current theme of Fields….

  • 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…

  • The Death of a Beautiful Subject

    The Death of a Beautiful Subject

    The Death of a Beautiful Subject is a multidisciplinary project by artist Sophy Rickett, which takes as its starting point a series of butterfly photographs taken by the artist’s father. As in previous projects, Rickett examines issues around collaboration and ownership, and encounters between humans, each other, and the natural world. Quiet and poignant and…