Earth Ethics

MUMA Readers are anthologies on topics relevant to contemporary art and creative practice initiated and produced by MUMA in collaboration with guest editors, and co-published with Monash University Publishing. In 2025, MUMA will be publishing the follow up to the first Reader published in 2022, Let's Go Outside: Art in Public.

Co-edited by Madeleine Collie, Megan Cope, Charlotte Day and Melissa Ratliff, Earth Ethics: Art, Institutions and Regenerative Practices focuses on the work of artists, initiatives and institutions who are actively engaged in regenerative, ecological and land-based practices, with an emphasis on collective, long-term, First Nations and protocol-led methods. It will be made up of local, regional and international case studies, essays and interviews (around 20), and aims to provide inspiring and hopeful models for sustainable and environmentally responsible ways of working both for the art field and a broader public. In exploring creative ecological practices and relationships to Country, the Reader aims to offer philosophical and practical toolkits for a global community re-thinking human custodianship of place.