extractivism

Writer and artist Nina Elder finds herself falling into a dark crevasse on a small Cycladic island, later to create an installation from squid ink the islanders had collected. From Issue 28, a special issue on Uncivilized Art, with images from the issue by Nina and Liz Miller-Kovacs.

Beginning in 2017, Kate Rawles traversed South America along the spine of the Andes, In today's post she outlines the journey and the mindset of extractivism that besets the extraordinary lands she travelled through.

Originally published in 'Dark Mountain: Issue 20 - ABYSS'. This latest post in our Dark Kitchen series is an extract from 'Greyhound', a current work in progress by Joanna Pocock, as she travels through the land of industrial beef production in the Texas panhandle.

In this penetrating essay, artist and lecturer Mat Osmond, looks at how the disruption of activism challenges a fossil-fuelled ecocidal civilisaton and asks: what is the true role of education when generations are being betrayed by the sleepwalking culture that fosters them?

Happy New Year and welcome to our archive month: we begin with two striking poems that face the storm by Craig Czury and Nina Pick, chosen by Mark Watson. With artwork by Rebecca Riley.

Submissions are now open for our Autumn 2021 issue, on the theme of 'extractivism'