Botanical Walk, Harmondsworth Moor, Saturday 14th September, 2024

Botanical Walk, Harmondsworth Moor, Saturday 14th September, 2024 Photo: Nick Ferguson. 2024. Harmondsworth Moor. About This walking tour, led by artist Nick Ferguson and ranger and naturalist Rebecca Harris, looked at the floor of Harmondsworth Moor. It was organised as part of London Open House and generously supported by Richmond, the American University, London. The … Continue Reading

Biodiversity after the Global

In Search of Orchard Farm (Unpublished photo essay, 2024) An earlier version of this work was delivered as a performance lecture Airport/Wilderness, Shiv Nadar University, Delhi, Jan. 16, 2023. Download a PDF Abstract In 2012 the airport authority Heathrow Holdings Limited launched an enterprise it named Heathrow Biodiversity. In this photo-essay, I investigate this enterprise ... Continue Reading

In Pursuit of Legacy.

In Pursuit of Legacy. Walking a straight line from India Gate towards the seat of government. February 23, 2025.   Edwin Lutyens. c. 1912. Plan of Imperial Delhi. In Pursuit of Legacy was a city walk staged by Delhi based arts collaboration First Draft and guest artist Nick Ferguson. Over the course of an evening some … Continue Reading

Being There?

Being There? Adventures in Remote Aesthetics A field broadcast workshop series by SNU Visiting Fellow, Dr Nicholas Ferguson, Department of Art, Media and Performance. January 17 – February 1, 2024.   In Search of Pure Air. 2024. About The poetic imagination of the artist has been at the centre of the global village. It has ... Continue Reading

Pandemic Landscapes. Observations from Heathrow Airport

Nick Ferguson. 2020-21 Pandemic Landscapes. Fieldnotes from Heathrow Airport Nick Ferguson. 2020-21 Pandemic Landscapes. Fieldnotes from Heathrow Airport Nick Ferguson. 2020-21 Pandemic Landscapes. Fieldnotes from Heathrow Airport Pandemic Landscapes. Observations from London Heathrow A much revised version of this work is now available in the journal Futures. For the interdisciplinary study of futures, anticipation and ... Continue Reading

Air Matters

AIR MATTERS. Learning from Heathrow (2017-2020). Archived Feb 27, 2020 The Green Man, Hatton Cross. 2017. Photograph: Nick Ferguson Politics of Air. 2019. Symposium at Watermans Arts. Left to Right: Georgina Voss, Paul Rekret, Anna Feigenbaum,, Steven Griggs. Photograph: Phil Harris Sasha Engelmann and Sophie Dyer. 2019.  Satellite Séance. Performance at the symposium Politics of ... Continue Reading

Capsule

Capsule. 2018-19 Heathrow final descent seen through aircraft webcam and displayed in cabin. 2019. Photograph: Nick Ferguson Pieter Bruegel the Elder. 1560. Landscape with the Fall of Icarus. Museum of Fine Arts, Belgium Clapham Stowaway efit. 2019. Metropolitan Police Overview Capsule is an art project that investigates the role of the aircraft landing gear compartment ... Continue Reading

Site/Ad-Site

Site/Ad-Site. 2019. Exhibition: Deptford X 2018 and Art Night, Kings Cross 2019 Nick Ferguson and Adrian Lee. 2018. Site/Ad-Site. Addis Restaurant 40-42 Caledonian Rd, Islington, London N1 9DT Nick Ferguson and Adrian Lee. 2018. Site/Ad-Site. Art Night 2019. Florida Hotel. 23 Argyle Square, London WC1H 8LS. Nick Ferguson and Adrian Lee. 2018. Site/Ad-Site. Art Night 2019. Avonmore Hotel. ... Continue Reading

Dwelling as Resistance

Dwelling as Resistance. Heathrow Expansion and the Art of Dissent. 2019 Media Coverage

The Monuments of Kings Cross

The Monuments of Kings Cross: a visit to the new ruins of London. 2017. JOURNAL OF CULTURAL GEOGRAPHY, 2017 VOL. 34, NO. 1, 93–114 When in 1967 the American land artist Robert Smithson visited the New York neigh­bourhood of Passaic, he travelled from city centre to periphery. There, on the edge of town, he saw … Continue Reading