Walking and Reading Session: Earth Ethics

Earth Ethics Cover Design: Žiga Testen and Stuart Geddes; 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.

Reading Group

Tuesday Gathering

11 November 2025
6:30 – 8:30pm
The Hall, NTU CCA Singapore
Free with registration

Category
Programmes

Series
Stagings

Theme
Climates. Habitats. Environments., Communities of Practice

Topics
Activism, Artistic Research, Climate Change, Climate Crisis, Coexistence, Cultural Environment, Cultural Production, Ecology, Ecosystems, Environmental Crisis, Indigenous Knowledge, Knowledge Production, Nature, Oceans & Seas, Regionalism, Social Systems, Sustainability, The Anthropocene

Regions
Southeast Asia, Oceana

Walking and Reading Session: Earth Ethics
Climate Transformation Gatherings

Tuesday, 11 November 2025 · 6:30 - 8:30 PM

Join us for a walking and reading session exploring the intersection of art, ecologies, and local knowledge to reimagine relationships within Earth systems.

Taking inspiration from case studies in the newly published Earth Ethics: Art, Institutions and Regenerative Practices (Monash University Publishing, 2025), co-edited by our current visiting researcher Madeleine Collie, this session explores some of the book’s strategies, offerings and ideas. Through collective reading, walking and discussion we will consider how place-based and relational approaches to art, research, and institution-making can cultivate ways of putting Earth Ethics into practice.

Credits

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.

About the Climate Transformation: Sustainable Societies Gathering series

Extended from the Climate Transformation Sustainable Societies Lecture Series, the Climate Transformation Gatherings consolidates critical concepts and ideas around various environmental themes and theories. These gatherings take various formats including open-discussion seminars, reading groups, workshops and guided tours to engage interested members of the public on various environmental issues.

This gathering is supported by the Singapore Ministry of Education Academic Research Fund Tier 3 grant [MOE-MOET32022-0006] for the Climate Transformation Programme.

Contributors

Madeleine Collie

Visiting Researcher

Australia

Madeleine Collie is visiting researcher under the Climate Transformation Programme (2024–2027). Collie is a curator, writer, and researcher who creates platforms for the circulation of creative knowledges engaging with the politics and poetics of plants in contemporary art. She initiated the Food Art Research Network in 2020 as a platform for peer learning and slow, curatorial research. She is co-editor of Earth Ethics: Art, Institutions and Regenerative Practices (Monash University Publishing, 2025), lead editor of a forthcoming volume based on the long-term research exchange Follow the Plants (2023–25), and co-editor of Tastes of Justice: The Aesthetics and Politics of Food in Asia and Australia (Routledge, 2026). She was awarded a PhD in Art History, Theory and Curatorial Practice from Monash University in 2025 and holds an MRes in Curatorial/Knowledge from Goldsmiths, University of London.

Walking and Reading Session: Earth Ethics Climate Transformation Gatherings

Walking and Reading Session: Earth Ethics
Climate Transformation Gatherings