Becoming The Forest #4 includes specially commissioned essays, interviews and illustrations, by animists, philosophers, artists and musicians
Including an essay on panpsychism as a possible answer to the climate crisis; a philosophical-historical overview of the relationship between black metal and the forest; a magical-realist account of a sylvan trip gone wrong; an in-depth interview with Rune from Nordic Animism, whose project looks to Scandinavian folklore and customs for “hidden animist knowledge” and more respectful ways of living with other subjectivities.
The symbolism of the primstav (a calendar staff used by the agricultural societies of old Scandinavia), runs through the issue. Its seasonally-based, cyclical view of time hints towards a worldview which was embedded in its environment, and which placed man as part of - and at the mercy of - nature, rather than above it.
Contributors:
Lotte Brown
By the Spirits
Crown of Asteria
Drukfout
Feral Season
Una Hamilton Helle
Hedda Hassel Mørch
Hawthonn
Rune Hjarnø Rasmussen
Invunche
Helge Kaasin
Edvard Munch
Necrofier
Alexandra Uppman
Cathy Ward
Published by Het Bos, 2022
UK Import
Perfect Bound
128 b/w pages
13.5 × 21 cm
Becoming the Forest is a serial publication about ecology and music edited by Úna Hamilton Helle and Lotte Brown. It is part of a long-running art project by Úna Hamilton Helle, inspired by how the dense spruce forests of Norway defined the aesthetic and philosophical outlook of the musical subculture of black metal.
Becoming The Forest #4 includes specially commissioned essays, interviews and illustrations, by animists, philosophers, artists and musicians
Including an essay on panpsychism as a possible answer to the climate crisis; a philosophical-historical overview of the relationship between black metal and the forest; a magical-realist account of a sylvan trip gone wrong; an in-depth interview with Rune from Nordic Animism, whose project looks to Scandinavian folklore and customs for “hidden animist knowledge” and more respectful ways of living with other subjectivities.
The symbolism of the primstav (a calendar staff used by the agricultural societies of old Scandinavia), runs through the issue. Its seasonally-based, cyclical view of time hints towards a worldview which was embedded in its environment, and which placed man as part of - and at the mercy of - nature, rather than above it.
Contributors:
Lotte Brown
By the Spirits
Crown of Asteria
Drukfout
Feral Season
Una Hamilton Helle
Hedda Hassel Mørch
Hawthonn
Rune Hjarnø Rasmussen
Invunche
Helge Kaasin
Edvard Munch
Necrofier
Alexandra Uppman
Cathy Ward
Published by Het Bos, 2022
UK Import
Perfect Bound
128 b/w pages
13.5 × 21 cm
Becoming the Forest is a serial publication about ecology and music edited by Úna Hamilton Helle and Lotte Brown. It is part of a long-running art project by Úna Hamilton Helle, inspired by how the dense spruce forests of Norway defined the aesthetic and philosophical outlook of the musical subculture of black metal.
