The article "Re-membering the Coast. Three Environmental Art Trails" Nicoletta Grillo, Hilde Van Gelder, and Joeri Verbesselt has been published in Vesper Journal of Architecture, Arts & Theory no. 14.
Abstract - The coast is conceived as a liminal space in which land and sea become generative of knowledge medi-ated through material, ecological, and cultural interactions. Beyond the environmental amnesia induced by tourism and its infrastructures, the coast is understood, here, as an active agent and a living archive capable of guiding environmental art research that integrates artistic practices, environmental art history, and embodied engagement, in order to reactivate processes of ‘remembering’. In this framework, different modes of environmental agency emerge: interspecies communication, vegetal co-creation, and the use of light as a critical medium. The notion of ‘iconic emergence’ supports the unexpected appearance of connections between past and present, while the use of intuition and wild thinking expands its epistemological paradigms. Research thus becomes a relational praxis that redefines the role of the re-searcher and promotes new forms of ecological awareness and shared memory.
