The focus of the project is on how experimental process and procedure in art and writing, influenced by the avant-gardes of the twentieth century, may be newly imagined in a local and global post-pandemic context. Such modes are no longer linked to specific avant-garde groupings, but offer a means of exploring potential in language and materials, and relationships to  the environment, to place. For example, the techniques of Oulipo and Fluxus may be appreciated anew as a means of critiquing and understanding the limitations and potential of human autonomy, including the large-scale effects of humans on the environment. How can process-based writing and site-specific performance help us to understand  the wider distribution of agency and meaning beyond the human? Could this lead to better ecological understanding? How can this critique of subjectivity help to inform scientific processes? 

Funding awarded through the Bangor University Innovation and Impact Award (Research Wales Innovation Funding). Value = £33,012