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A talk by artist Michele Allen focussing on her project 'The Weight of Ants in the World' and activism within her practice, delivered for the NEPN-produced symposium 'Photography, Environment, Action.'

Michele Allen is a multimedia artist and
researcher based in North East England,
working with photography, sound and video.
Her work deals with environment and sense
of place and is often made in response to
specific sites working in collaboration with
community groups, environmental experts and
academics from disciplines such as history,
geography and social science.
‘Since 2018 I have been working on a long
term project The Weight of Ants in the World,
which focuses on an ancient woodland in the
centre of an industrial estate in North East
England, thinking about the wood as a witness
to industrialisation. The project includes,
photography, sound, archival research and video
to intensely explore this ancient ecosystem and
has also taken on a degree of activism. The work
aims to manifest this site in other spaces, to
mobilize the woods, thinking about their mass,
fragility and endurance at a time of advanced
climate crisis and species loss. As a result of
the project the woods have been surveyed
and designated as a local wildlife site and in
February this year they were protected with a
Tree Preservation Order. It is this mixture of art,
activism and just being there which I hope to
share with you in this event.’
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theweightofantsintheworld
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