Nocturnal ecologies /

The nocturnal city is awash with a multitude of complex and layered connections spanning nature, the built environment, electricity, life and light. The illuminated buildings, streets, gardens and public spaces that characterise the city of Melbourne, Australia, the adopted home of photographer and...

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Main Author: Wilson, Felix (book artist,, Photographer)
Other Authors: Rule, Dan (Editor), Ellis, Justine (Editor)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Melbourne : Published by Perimeter Editions, [2019]
Edition:First edition.
Series:Perimeter editions ; 040
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520 |a The nocturnal city is awash with a multitude of complex and layered connections spanning nature, the built environment, electricity, life and light. The illuminated buildings, streets, gardens and public spaces that characterise the city of Melbourne, Australia, the adopted home of photographer and researcher Felix Wilson, tie its inhabitants to the immense brown coal mines and power stations of the Latrobe Valley, some 150 kilometers east, via a vast network of electrical infrastructure. By embarking in the process of burning brown coal, a substance that was formed from vegetation that grew more than 25 million years ago, which can be traced though fossilised remains found during the mining process, we artificially irradiate our modern city, decimate species, and in turn, entwine our contemporary pursuits and follies with that of deep time. Hinting towards Allan Sekula's more speculative mode of photographic enquiry, in league with American anthropologist Anna Tsing and late Australian philosopher and ecofeminist Val Plumwood's broader perspectives on ecology, Wilson's debut book Nocturnal Ecologies doesn't so much make a case or establish a steadfast position in this wider schema. Rather, his poetic, at times quietly playful constellations of monochromatic images engage nonhuman and animal actors to pose questions, offer juxtapositions and draw connections. In Wilson's ecology of images, native Australian possums, insects, bats and city plants converse with the fossilised remains of kangaroos from the Latrobe Valley and vegetative forms found in brown coal. In doing so Nocturnal Ecologies offers a series of conduits between our present lived experience and one of which the residual evidence can only be found deep in the ground. 
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