This two-part panel discussion looks to initiate conversations around recent exhibitions that have responded to questions of environment and ecology. Between reporting from weather stations and notes from the field, we can seek place and time within the glacial, the agrarian, the mundane and the familiar. Thinking of carbon dating, we are able to see into our planetary pasts. What imaginations do we lend to nature, and how do we see it coming to life?

Looking at exhibitions as generative, discursive sites, Shared Ecologies is interested in examining growing intersections between art and ecology. We would like to think through the kind of discursive spaces and sensibilities that emerge from the ‘exhibition’ as a modality, and new questions that might be evoked through artistic and curatorial practices.