The Body-Forest Programme (Spike Island Gallery, 2022)
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The Body-Forest was a programme of engagement devised and curated by Jack in 2022 at Spike Island Gallery in Bristol.
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The programme explored how thinking of the body as an interconnected ecosystem rather than as a machine – a metaphor developed under capitalism – might shift the way we think about our human connection to the world.
Drawing on the work of biologists Pierre Sonigo and Shrese, among others, the Body-Forest included participatory workshops, discussions, reading groups, a summer school with young people from Hartcliffe in South Bristol that took place in Leigh Woods {see the podcast and zine below}; the publication of Jack's hybrid chapbook of interspecies intimacies URTH and more.
The programme interrogated how the concept of the Body-Forest might de-centre the human, and change the way we think about time, language, desire and community in an age of overlapping social and ecological crises.
Click here for the digital zine | Click here for the podcast |
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You can access the full archive of the programme via the Spike Island website by clicking here.
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