New Rhythms

In 2024, AND’s Executive Director Louise Hargreves joined Dani Admiss (Sunlight Liberation Network), Luiza Prado de O. Martins and Ruth McCullough to embark on an experimental collaboration to explore different ways of making and experiencing art together in an increasingly uneven and uncertain world. Find out more about what they got up to during their time together. 

Can we make art that supports a liveable future for all?

New Rhythms is a slow working group dedicated to art and collaboration across borders in uncertain times.

In 2024, we began by trying to get to grips with making and experiencing art in increasingly uneven uncertainty and precarity. We started looking at regenerative green art practices – community economies, resource-sharing, and closed loop systems – and ended up on a wild journey that took us through miracle plants, samba schools, eating seaweed with seals, and playing in hidden alleyways.

Our call to action is, as the Climate Emergency unfolds all around us in uneven ways, it is urgent for artists to reconnect to the concept of liveability, for all.

To share our work, we created a Collective Rhythms zine and set of Divination for Climate Adaptability cards. Designed and illustrated by Luiza Prado de O. Martins and written by Dani Admiss.

Download the zine.

Since 2021, Dani Admiss & Sunlight Liberation Network (previously Sunlight Doesn’t Need a Pipeline) has worked to create an independent climate justice and culture network through artist and community-led experimentation, skills-training, and knowledge exchange.

New Rhythms is Dani Admiss/Sunlight Liberation Network, Luiza Prado de O. Martins, Louise Hargreaves and Ruth McCullough. It was supported by the Four Nations fund from Creative Scotland, and in partnership with Abandon Normal Devices. 

Images: Dani Admiss and Luiza Prado de O. Martins