*The recording from the event is available to watch below*
You are invited to join us for an online celebration of our full-colour special issue on uncivilised art.
This spring a team of editors set out to create a collection of visual art that to be a celebration of the artists who hold out for a certain way of being in this collapsing world: true to the transformative power of creativity, to the love of the Earth, and the material of life itself.
What happens shift your attention from the shiny surfaces of an industrial culture, to a perception of the world co-created with all planetary beings who dwell in deep time? What happens when you follow the artists as they span dimensions, move through the land, disturbing and liberating our vision?
You find yourself in a book in the shape of a tree: leading from the forest canopy to the heartwood to the seeds of the future that lie on the leafy floor. You edge across branches that take you back in time to the illuminative script makers, or down into the underbelly of civilisation where women fall into holes, subvert road signs, throw paint, walk across mined and burning land. You descend into the roots, the core mycelial practices these artists hold in times of unravelling: collaborations with lichen, with microbes, with stalks of wheat, mountain slate, seaweed, horse and crow; in the studio which is a darkroom, and also a cliff, a river, a desk before a luminous window. You look up…
Do join us for the online launch of Dark Mountain: Issue 28 on Tuesday 21st October, starting at 7:30pm (BST) to hear from some of the artists, editors and others who have contributed to this book from around the world.
Dark Mountain: Issue 28 will be published on 15th October 2025.
A Zoom link will be sent two days before the event.
Hope to see you there!
Tickets are free but you will need to book a place on Eventbrite.