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The EVERYDAY

The Everyday  – Documents of Contemporary Art Series by Stephen Johnstone

The Everyday in Visual Culture: Slices of Lives Paperback by Francois Penz

Art of the Everyday, The: The Quotidian in Postwar French Culture Hardcover

By Lynn Gumpert 

Interpreting Everyday Culture: 9 by Fran Martin

The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment by Eckhart Tolle

Geographies of Rhythm: Nature, Place, Mobilities and Bodies by Tim Edensor  

Out of the Ordinary: True Tales of Everyday Craziness by Jon Ronson 

Talking with a Map: A Cognitive Analytic Approach to Everyday Conversational Awareness by Steve Potter

Wild Things: The Material Culture of Everyday Life: v. 11 (Materializing Culture) by Judy Attfield

The Ecstatic Quotidian: Phenomenological Sightings in Modern Art and Literature by Jennifer Anna Gosetti – Ferencei

Judith Butler in Conversation: Analyzing the Texts and Talk of Everyday Life by Bronwen Davies

Everyday Data Cultures by Jean Burgess

Culture and Everyday Life (The New Sociology) by David Inglis

HOME

Art and the Home; Comfort, Alienation and the Everyday by Imogen Racz

Playing at Home; The House in Contemporary Art (Art since the 80’s) by Gill Perry

Contemporary Art and the Home by Colin Painter

The Unmaking of Home in Contemporary Art (Cultural Spaces) by Claudette Lauzon

When Home Won’t Let You Stay; Migration through Contemporary Art by by Eva Respini and Ruth Erickson

Art, Borders and Belonging; On Home and Migration by  Maria Photiou and Marsha Meskimmon

Art and Migration; Revisioning the Borders of Community by Bénédicte Miyamoto and Marie Ruiz

Migration into Art; Transcultural Identities and Art Making in a Globalised World by Anne Ring Peterson

Replacing Home; From Primordial Hut to Digital Network in Contemporary Art by Jennifer Johung

Performing Home by Stuart Andrews

Immigration and Contemporary British Theatre; Finding a Home on the Stage by Victoria Sams

Mobility and Migration in Film and Moving Image Art; Cinema Blond Europe by Nilgun Bayraktar

The Poetics of Space by Gaston Bachelard

Species of Spaces and Other Pieces by Georges Perec

Exile in Global Literature and Culture: Homes Found and Lost by Asher Milbauer and James Sutton

Homebodies; Tactile Experience in Domestic Space by James Krasner

Mapping Home in Contemporary Narratives by Alexandra Bida

Journey

Travel and Ethics; Theory and practice by Corrine Fowler, Charles Forsdick and Ludmilla Kostova, published by Routledge

Darker Side of Travel; The Theory and Practice of Dark Tourism (Aspects of tourism) by Richard Sharpley and Philip R. Stone

Travel Gender and Imperialism; Mary Kingsley and West Africa by Alison Blunt, published by The Guilford Press

A History of Curiosity; The Theory of Travel 1550 – 1800, Studies in Anthropology and History by Justin Stagl published by Routledge

Mountains Of The Mind: A History Of A Fascination by Robert Macfarlane published by Granta Books

The Old Ways: A Journey on Foot by Robert Macfarlane published by Penguin

A field Guide to Getting Lost by Rebecca Solnit, published by The Canons

Wanderlust; A History of Walking, Rebecca Solnit, published by Verso

Walking Art Practice: Reflections on Socially Engaged Paths by Ernesto Pujol

Walking’s New Movement by Phil Smith by Triarchy Press

Walking Bodies; Papers, Provocations, Actions from Walking’s New Movements, the Conference edited by: Helen Billinghurst, Claire Hind and Phil Smith published by Triarchy Press

Mythogeography; A guide to walking sideways by CrabMan (Phil Smith) published by Triarchy Press

On Walking… and Stalking Sebald; A guide to going beyond wandering around looking at stuff  by Phil Smith published by Triarchy Press

Ways to Wander by Claire Hind and Clare Qualmann published by Triarchy Press

Nature

Caught by the River, On Nature

Colin Tudge, The Secret Life of Trees

Peter Wohlleben, The Hidden Life of Trees

Monica Gagliano, John C Ryan, Patricia Vieira, The Language of Plants

Robert MacFarlane, Underland

Donna Haraway, Manifestly Haraway

Timothy Morton, Dark Ecology

Esther Woolfson, Between Light and Storm; How We Live with Other Species

Andrew Brown, Art and Ecology Now

Robin Wall Kimmerer, ‘Corn tastes better on the honor system’, Emergence Magazine, August 2018

Suzanne Simard, ‘How trees talk to each other’, TED Talk, 2016

Prudence Gibson & Monica Gagliano, ‘The feminist plant: Changing relations with the water lily’, in Ethics and the Environment

Luce Irigaray & Michael Marder, Through Vegetal Being: Two Philosophical Perspectives

Richard Powers, The Overstory

Patrícia Vieira, ‘Phytographia: Literature as Plant Writing’, Environmental Philosophy

Han Kang, The Vegetarian, 2007; translation by Deborah Smith

Andrew Adamatzky, Slime Mould in Arts and Architecture

Nora Bateson, Small Arcs of Larger Circles, framing through other patterns

Octavia Butler, Wild Seed

Marisol de la Cadena, Earth Beings: Ecologies of Practice across Andean Worlds

Anne Dillard, Pilgrim at Tinker Creek

Vilém Flusser, Natural: Mind

Macarena Gómez-Barris, The Extractive Zone: Social Ecologies and Decolonial Perspectives
Jack Halberstam

Wild Things: The Disorder of Desire

Tim Ingold, Correspondences

Eduardo Kohn, How Forests Think

Daisy Lafarge, Life Without Air

Long Litt Woon, The Way Through the Woods: On Mushrooms and Mourning

Michael Marder, The Philosopher’s Plant

Resmaa Menakem, My Grandmother’s Hands: Racialized Trauma and the Pathway to Mending Our Hearts and Bodies

Jeremy Narby, The Cosmic Serpent

Leah Penniman, Farming While Black: Soul Fire Farm’s Practical Guide to Liberation on the Land

Michael Pollan, The Botany of Desire

Michael Pollan, How to Change Your Mind

Elizabeth Povinelli, Geontologies

Maria Puig de la Bellacasa, Matters of Care: Speculative Ethics in More Than Human Worlds

Marisol de la Cadena & Mario Blaser, A World of Many Worlds

Merlin Sheldrake, Entangled Life

Rupert Sheldrake, Terence McKenna and Ralph Abraham, Chaos, Creativity and Cosmic Consciousness

Vandana Shiva, Soil not Oil

Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing, Heather Anne Swanson, Elaine Gan, and Nils Bubandt, Arts of Living

on a Damaged Planet: Ghosts and Monsters of the Anthropocene

Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing, The Mushroom at the End of the World, On the Possibility of Life in Capitalist Ruins

The Willowherb Review

Monica Gagliano, Thus Spoke the Plant

Robin Wall Kimmerer, Braiding Sweetgrass

Animal

Ross Barnett – The Missing Lynx

Patrick Barkham, Badgerlands

Helen Macdonald, H is for Hawk

Geoge Monbiot, Out of the Wreckage

Ross Barnett, The Missing Lynx

George Monbiot, Feral

David Abram, Becoming Animal

Peter Godfrey-Smith, Other Minds: The Octopus, the Sea, and the Deep Origins of Consciousness

John Berger, Why Look at Animals

Art, Environment & Ecology

General Online resources

Animal Meditations

http://www.animalmeditations.com/

Green Renaissance – short films, amazing stories

https://www.greenrenaissance.co.za/

EcoArt Project

https://www.ecoartproject.org/

The Essay – Becoming Animal by Isabel Galleymore

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m000sjcd

The Stubborn Light of Things podcasts by Melissa Harrison

https://melissaharrison.co.uk/podcast/

Becoming; Animal, Becoming Fungus, Becoming Plant, Becoming Insect, Becoming Bird

https://www.singingapplepress.com/becoming

ONCA gallery, barge, community project website

https://onca.org.uk

Feral Atlas – humanities and science project

http://feralatlas.org

Serpentine Galleries – Back to Earth

https://www.serpentinegalleries.org/whats-on/back-to-earth/

Serpentine Galleries General Ecology – ongoing programme

https://www.serpentinegalleries.org/general-ecology/

Serpentine galleries – On Practice

https://www.serpentinegalleries.org/art-and-ideas/on-practice-reading-list/

Treehugger – information site on sustainability

https://www.treehugger.com/

https://www.treehugger.com/animals-4846035

https://www.treehugger.com/art-and-media-4846013

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