At the start of the Permaculture class, Nick asked us to write on a slip of paper what our aspirations were.
I wrote: “GET MORE BY DOING LESS”. (If Lisa reads this, I know she will laugh out loud.)
This year, Lizzie and I made a new years greeting card which said:
“wishing you (and ourselves) the joys of doing a bit less in 2010″.
But so far I’ve been a bit of a failure at this – being so busy that I have not enjoyed the time to stop and reflect and ask whether I’m carrying out my activities in the most intelligent way.
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The last time I flirted with permaculture (in late 2008), I got very excited about shit.
Having attended Milkwood’s intro to permaculture course, I raved to anyone who would listen, about the idea of recycling the energy which constitutes our own shit, to use it again and again – rather than flushing it away to a non-usable state out in the ocean somewhere.
However – besides an ongoing fascination with my compost heap (a way of recycling the energy in scrap foods and plant residues, but not shit) – my “human shit ambition” has been just sitting there, waiting for something to happen. I haven’t managed to crack how to use it within an urban context (not within the constraints of my rental tenancy situation anyway).
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This coming weekend I’ll be in Melbourne for Next Wave Festival. I’m speaking in a forum entitled “Taking it to the Streets” (!).
All the Details are here.
Come along to help me celebrate an early Bob Dylan’s Birthday!
2010 Next Wave Festival Club, 1000 £ Bend, 361
Sunday 23 May, 2pm-3:30pm
Little Lonsdale Street, Melbourne
This forum will explore the potential for publically-sited art to meaningfully engage with social issues beyond the art world. If one accepts that art can and should be marshalled towards social justice, then what are the specific artistic competencies that are best deployed towards these ends? What have been some of the successes and failures of socially and politically charged art in the public realm? And can art enact social change and still be good art?
speakers:
Deborah Kelly (Chair)
George Egerton-Warburton
Lucas Ihlein
Iain McIntyre
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