What does art do when the world is on fire? In the autumn of 2015, I brought together a group of fourteen artists from within and beyond the performing arts.…
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The Predicament
What does art do when the world is on fire? This was the question that framed the Dark Mountain Workshop project.
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A Journey Begins
This October, as the leaves gather in the gutters of Stockholm, a gang of artists, writers, performers and theatre makers will set off on a journey.
In 2014, we republished the Dark Mountain Manifesto as a paperback book. This new essay was written to introduce the text, telling the story of how it came about and where it led us.
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Five Years on a Mountain
Five years on from the launch of the Dark Mountain Manifesto, Paul Kingsnorth and I spoke together as part of Schumacher College’s Earth Talks series.
For the fifth Dark Mountain book, I wrote this essay looking back on what we’d learned from four years of running the Uncivilisation festival.
Talking with Ivan Illich’s friend and pupil about his concept of the vernacular.
Talking with the author of The Spell of the Sensuous and Becoming Animal.
A conversation with the philosopher and ecologist, author of The Spell of the Sensuous and Becoming Animal.
During the early years of Dark Mountain, we ran an annual three-day festival with writers, makers and performers who had been drawn to the project.