The Documents of Contemporary Art books published by MIT Press and The Whitechapel Gallery are recommended for students on this module. None of the books in this library are essential reading, and this is not the official reading list.
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
Feral Atlas – humanities and science project
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