Archean Stone – Brixton, Johannesburg.
practice lead research in art and POSTHUMAN GEOGRAPHIES…
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Dr. Brigitta Stone-Johnson (Brigs)
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ABOUT
Hi, I’m Brigitta Stone-Johnson (Brigs). I am an artist, architect, and creative practice-based researcher who lives in Johannesburg, South Africa. I have been a lecturer at the Wits School of Architecture (SoAP) since 2016. I am interested in art, architecture, geology/geography and cities.
I create art and write about a vital world of stone, as it represents a living, more-than-human world and serves as a bridge connecting humans to the deep past and the deep future. I am interested in the human geological relationships that take place in cities at all scale and grounded artistic practices as tools for counter-narrating narratives of extraction, colonialism and the impacts of Anthropocene. My research finds and holds space for knowing and thinking with things through bodily encounters. My position counters the extractivist impulse and provides a set of coordinates for thinking about art, architectural, and urban practices in the collapse of the modernist city.
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A R T W O R K S
“Post-human geography is a field within geography that challenges traditional human-centric perspectives by analysing how humans are intertwined with non-human actors and the material world, moving beyond a simple human-nature binary. It draws on critical posthumanism to create philosophically rigorous and socially accountable frameworks, exploring future geographies that include technological and ecological shifts. Key concepts include the ‘more-than-human,’ actor-network theory (ANT), and multispecies ethnography, focusing on interconnectedness, fluid boundaries, and the political implications of these relations”.
ATMOS : Recent explorations consider the relation of the body, to the particulate dust of the extractive zone.
