Featuring contributions from Margaret Atwood, Justin Brice Guarliglia, Robert Macfarlane, Timothy Morton, Re:wild and Zadie Smith
1A. Location: Market Place
1B. Location: The Riverwalk
1C. Location: Silver St
1D. Location: Framwellgate Waterside
1E. Location: New Elvet
1F. Location: North Rd
Ecological thoughts for the road ahead
Designed to command attention, deliver instruction, and provoke immediate response, highway signs are a visual language of authority. Entanglement Is Existential (II) recontextualises this language to challenge viewers’ expectations and redirect their focus toward the ecological crises of our time. By embedding poetic phrases, metaphor, and wry humour into these familiar forms, Guariglia subverts institutional tone and repurposes it as a vehicle for ecological consciousness. The work functions not simply as a warning, but as a philosophical provocation – inviting public reflection on our deep entanglement with the planet’s systems in the era of the Anthropocene.
Entanglement Is Existential (II) includes contributions from writers, thinkers, philosophers, and scientists in conversation with Guariglia’s practice:
- Lost Words, Robert Macfarlane — words removed from the Oxford Junior Dictionary along with words that have been inserted in their place
- An excerpt from NW, a novel by Zadie Smith
- Search for Lost Species, Re:wild — names of 2,000 “lost species” compiled by the non-profit as part of their quest to find and recover forgotten species
- A poem entitled Oh Children from Margaret Atwood’s anthology, Dearly
- Witty sayings from the eco-theorist Timothy Morton
- Eco-aphorisms by artist Justin Brice Guariglia
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Image credit: Entanglement Is Existential (II), Justin Brice Guariglia. Photo by Matthew Andrews