issue 58, no. 1, September 2023
’Dissonant Terrain: Yandell Walton'
Art + Australia

In September 2022, Australian multimedia artist Yandell Walton was one of thirteen participating artists in LABVERDE, an art immersion program based in the Amazon rainforest. Conducted in collaboration with Brazil’s National Institute of Amazonian Research and the Chico Mendes Institute for Biodiversity Conservation, LABVERDE’s 2022 Speculative Ecologies program brought together artists, Indigenous people, ecologists and scientists with the aim of encouraging and supporting the development of environment-related artistic languages. Through the sharing of cross-disciplinary knowledge and expertise and mutual experiences in the rainforest, LABVERDE hopes to generate ‘new ways of existence and interaction with environment’ and ‘co-imagine new approaches to current ecosystems’. As the program asks, ‘How can art develop strategies for the expansion of environmental justice?’ Read