BECOMING ECOLOGICALLY ENTANGLED
My work operates in the liminal spaces between knowledge constructions, connecting ideas from science, technology, history, religion, magic and philosophy. It takes the form of research, multi-media interventions and installations, writing and activism. My work is site-specific, connecting with its context as much as possible to reveal hidden ecologies, connectedness and commonality. I partner with places of history, knowledge or narrative including libraries, museums and laboratories, using their rich contexts to provide materials and to become a structural part of the work.
My artistic practice continues to evolve in response to my growing realisation that violent colonial and industrial capitalism has damaged our planet’s natural systems. We are in crisis; the earth’s biosphere is collapsing. However, the epoch we live in offers a rare opportunity: the problem that faces us is so huge and so terrible that it is unifying people from wildly different disciplines in their desire for change. A more-than-human approach embraces this coming together of different disciplines and resists disciplinarity. As someone who aspires to becoming more-than-human, collaborative transdisciplinarity underpins my practice.
I lived for 20yrs at the mouth of the Thames Estuary (UK) where rising sea levels are predicted to have a severe impact. The Estuary is an area of social and economic deprivation, something I experienced first-hand, and these structural inequalities will make it harder for local communities to adapt to and mitigate the effects of climate breakdown. Inhabiting this context, I aim to live and work in an ecologically sustainable way while staying flexible, so I can continue to adapt to our unfolding future.
My ambition is to take this further, so that my practice entangles me with the biosphere, making me indigenous to an ecologically interconnected, more-than-human world in which it’s possible to thrive.
Copyright of Sarah Craske 2023