Interview with Ilaria Mazzoleni - NAHR & Transect of Coexistence

Ilaria Mazzoleni is the General Editor of Transect of Coexistence: Inquiry into Nature, Art, and Habitat, a recently published book that collects the outcomes of a decade-long collaboration between scholars and creatives, who, through an artist and researcher-in-residence program, have explored current environmental challenges aiming for inclusive objectives at both the global and local levels. Indeed the book has an international group of collaborators, including the Freo connected choreographer, Lucinda Coleman.

Six chapters highlight different ecological elements: Woods, Water, Rocks, Grasses, Animals, and Soil. Each brings together a polyphony of voices capable of reflecting on the dichotomy of nature and culture, rural and urban, and finally giving shape to suggestions for a new cooperative future. This is, in fact, the premise of the NAHR – Nature, Art & Habitat Residency eco-laboratory, which offers hospitality to researchers and artists in Val Taleggio, Italy, and in Santa Ynez Valley, California. NAHR investigates and strives for a co-existence on planet Earth in which nature and culture are intertwined in radical ways.

What a great concept. What an endeavour! We had to find out more about NAHR, what the motivating force behind the collaboration has been, and just who this book is for. Luckily for us, Ilaria Mazzoleni, who is based in Italy and California, kindly agreed to meet with our Editor, Michael Barker, by Zoom from Los Angeles to record this podcast dealing with those questions, and so much more besides.

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