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- River(s) Wear: Water in the Expanded FieldPublication . Santos, Miguel; Wainwright, JohnThis article elaborates on an artist-in-residence project funded by the Leverhulme Trust in the Geography Department at Durham University in 2015–16. The project confronted artistic and scientific perspectives to investigate how people in the North-East of England perceive and value their river environments and to recognize potential contributions to catchment management. The project identified a variety of disconnexions and hierarchies in the River Wear catchment and formulated artistic interventions for nonhuman audiences. This article reflects on water holistically and explores transdisciplinary views to propose water in its expanded field. Water in the Expanded Field is plural, complex, and aims at decentering the human importance. It promotes water multiple perspectives, including the more-than-human world and acknowledging water’s ontological importance, developed by the speculative artistic practice of producing works of art for nonhuman audiences and then transposed to water debates. The article converges distinct evidence pointing to the importance of composting existing knowledge and dualistic reasoning to promote pluriversal ontologies of water.
- On Scale: Ontological Variations in PhotographyPublication . Santos, MiguelThe concept of scale refers to complex phenomena that vary within space, time, or other dimensions in the real world. Scale underlines the connection between a representation and its referent while using finite and discrete measurements to render infinite narratives and meanings. The concept of scale can be as familiar as undefined, having a vari- ety of meanings depending on its operational context and disciplinary perspective. (Wells, 2013) In the specific context of lens-based arts, i.e., photography, the various approaches and implications of scale remain largely unanswered. The photograph of a landscape or a bacterium is unlikely to be material- ized in their real scale, its size would be, either, too big or too small for standardized observation. Scale anthropomorphises size, compressing physical and cultural geographies to pocket size, bringing distant percep- tions to arm’s length. As a concept, scale places humans at the centre of their own discourses while reinforcing human-centred taxonomies. None- theless, scalar variations are ontological to the photographic medium (Crowther, 2009), and have significant implications in the formation of individual narratives and political discourses, which are often made invisible or ignored. (Grau, 2003; Klein, 2004) This presentation attempts to uncover some of its problematics and its overall impact in the interpretation and formation of the work of art. Its primary focus is on photography while considering other artistic practices in a nondisciplinary convergent approach to scalar variations of size. References Crowther, P. (2009), Phenomenology of the Visual Arts (even the frame), Stanford, CA; Stanford University Press. Grau, O. (2003), Virtual Art: From Illusion to Immersion, Cambridge, MA: London: MIT Press. Klein, N. (2004), The Vatican to Vegas: A History of Special Effects, New York; London: The New Press. Mandelbrot, B. (1982), The Fractal Geometry of Nature, San Francisco, CA ; W.H.Freeman & Co. Wells, R. (2013), Scale in Contemporary Sculpture: Enlargement, Miniatu- rization, and the Life-Size, Farnham; Burlington: Ashgate.
- Quarry Sonnets: a Reflexive ReportPublication . Santos, MiguelQuarry Sonnets was a research project on art and societal change investigating the value of artistic methodologies to decentre human perspectives and promote a multispecies society. This report reflects on the outcomes of a pilot trial in a former quarry in the Natural Park Serra de Aires and Candeeiros, Portugal. The pilot trial implemented a workshop with 45 art students and staff from six European Universities working in small groups in a collective effort to propose ideas for the Vale de Meios Quarry's rehabilitation, culminating in a public event with the local community and stakeholders. The workshop experimented with the quarry as a nexus for a multispecies conversation, exploring a framework that attempted to decentre human perspectives when considering ecosystem rehabilitation projects. The workshop generated ideas in partnership with the quarry ecosystem for further discussion and development with its stakeholders.
- Quarry Sonnets: Artistic Methodologies in More-than-Human ReasoningPublication . Santos, MiguelThe article proposes a posthumanist, site-led mode of reasoning in which geological, ecological, climatic, and human forces participate in shaping artistic practice. It draws on Quarry Sonnets, a nine-day, practice-led field project at the Vale de Meios limestone quarry in Portugal’s Serras de Aire e Candeeiros Natural Park in late November 2022, involving forty-five participants from six European art schools. Treating art practice as a way of knowing, the project convened open, revisable ways of working—walking, listening, iterative making, and collective reflection—so that the quarry’s tempos, weather, fossils, and working traces could co-author inquiry. Methodologies were held lightly and adjusted in practice, with decisions led by what the site made possible on a given day rather than preset outcomes. Two orienting commitments—attunement and composting knowledge—held diverse practices and partial understandings in contact without forcing consensus. The article’s contribution is to foreground artistic practice as a way of organizing environmental research by expanding who participates and what counts as evidence, while refusing closure into templates, solutions, or toolkits. In this register, research proceeds with the quarry and its more-than-human relations as a co-author that sets pace and constraint, keeping political and ecological questions active without resolving them in advance.
- Tell Those in Charge, Transdisciplinary ReportPublication . Brighenti, Sara; Afonso, Lígia; Santos, MiguelThis Transdisciplinary Report is published in the context of the Youth Addendum to the Porto Santo Charter, as a support document which summarises and integrates the proposals of the young people who took part in the ‘Tell those in Charge’ consultation method. After implementing this method of listening to young representatives across 10 European countries, 23 reports emerged, offering the young people’s perspective on what culture is and how their peers can ignite it. The collected data was viewed as a unique sample representing diverse youth living in Europe and was systematically organised and categorised to achieve actionable insights. This data was then categorised into the three scales of the Porto Santo Charter, as well as in different analytical dimensions, which served to build a critical and interpretative analysis of young people's proposals. The process involved a sociodemographic characterization of the participants and an analysis of their concepts of culture. Then their own positions regarding culture were explored, and the barriers to and promoters of cultural participation that young people recognise from their experiences were identified. Finally, the recommendations presented in the reports were systematised and analysed, enabling their organisation into concrete (actions) and abstract (proposals) recommendations. The transdisciplinary report not only synthesises the results obtained in these workshops but also aligns them with the existing principles of the Porto Santo Charter. In addition, it also incorporates analysis of the reports from the Youth-Action-Culture Conference observers, as well as reference literature on this subject in the European sphere, which is the context for the reports. Predominant tensions in the fields of power and hierarchy were highlighted, with a clear aversion to hierarchical constructions of culture and distrust of current political models. The youngsters' reflections reveal concerns about socio-economic and territorial inequalities and the difficulties regarding access of cultural institutions or in building an artistic career path, as well as the acknowledgement of the role of schools and education, thereby demonstrating the importance of introducing transformation in these contexts, and in the creation of safe spaces for youth participation. The participants demand their views are taken into account and propose broad and specific resolutions in diverse fields as ways of expanding youth participation and culture. Showing a great desire to participate and to contribute, young people want to be active agents of change. New paradigms of decision-making and action must be developed for the implementation of bottom-up participatory methods, so that their involvement may be equitable and truly democratic.