a new anthology reader from Monash University Museum of Art
Earth Ethics: Art, Institutions and Regenerative Practices is the second in a series of readers published by Monash University Museum of Art | MUMA, edited by Madeleine Collie, Megan Cope, Charlotte Day and Melissa Ratliff. It features essays, interviews, case studies and exercises from a wide range of artists, initiatives and institutions who are rethinking the relationships that museums/galleries, artists, audiences and communities have with their locations.
In recent years, artists, curators and institutions have increasingly reckoned with their responsibilities to the places they inhabit, in light of human-driven environmental change and its effects on climate and biodiversity. At the same time, Indigenous peoples and land-based communities are sustaining ancestral ways of being, and revitalising creative and cultural practices that nurture reciprocal relationships with more-than-human worlds.
Earth Ethics: Art, Institutions and Regenerative Practices brings together perspectives from practitioners who are rethinking the relationships between museums and galleries, artists, audiences and communities, and the specific places they inhabit. Rooted in Australian and First Nations contexts, this reader connects with innovative work across the globe through diverse case studies that demonstrate how earth ethics can be meaningfully put into practice.
Contributors: Joss Hamilton Allen, Larissa Behrendt, Jen Berean, Marleen Boschen, N’arweet Carolyn Briggs, Carolina Caycedo, Kath Coff, Madeleine Collie, Megan Cope, Annalee Davis, Keg de Souza, Sari Dennise, Janina Hilberer, Alexander Holland, Candice Hopkins, Alistair Hudson, Hanna Jurisch, Zayaan Khan, Barbara Kiolbassa, Ute Lührs, Lumbung Land Working Group, Victoria Lynn, Luna Marán, Brian Martin, Caroline Martin, Jessica Menger, Callum Morton, Jessica Neath, SJ Norman, Sofía Olascoaga, Tara Rodríguez Besosa, Stanislav Roudavski, Julian Rutten, Zoe Scoglio, Shooshie Sulaiman, Linda Tegg, David Tournier, Stéphane Verlet Bottéro, Rüdiger Waurig, Alia Yunis
Image: Earth Ethics cover. Design: Stuart Geddes and Žiga Testen; Background: Jen Berean, Callum Morton, Linda Tegg (Monash Art Projects), The Birds 2024. Installation view: Ian Potter Sculpture Court, Monash University Museum of Art, Naarm/Melbourne, 2024. Photo: the artists
Earth Ethics Publication Launch, Monash University Museum of Art, 2025.
N'arweet Carolyn Briggs with the editors at the Earth Ethics Publication Launch, Monash University Museum of Art, 2025.