As part of our Winter 2025-26 Studio Programme, Ecology as Method, our studio holds a monthly space where our community can share work. We bring together guest speakers whose own practices shed light and inspire action and learning around questions of what ecology as method is in practice, elaborating on concepts including “participation”, “improvisation” and “transcendence”. These sessions aim to be in dialogue with the other happenings of the studio, a responsive space in which those happenings emerge into gathering.
This is our first session from November: Writing the Self. Here we explore and lean into Ecology as a way of seeing ourselves, and our connection to one another and to the world. We interrogate human methods of self preservation and healing, and intergenerational communication through writing, research and archives.
This session was led by Riham Isaac and Davina Quinlivan. Riham Isaac is a performance artist from Palestine, weaving together a range of artistic practices – acting, singing, dancing, and video – to explore new mediums of live performance and multidisciplinary arts. Davina Quinlivan is an experimental author, researcher and teacher whose work explores themes of place, migration, and transformation.
Through the lens of ecology as a method, archives become alive - embodied, evolving, decaying - a space that reaches across time in both acts of remembering and forgetting.
Watch the session in full, here.