Associate Professor of Art History and Visual CommunicationsÌýGabriel GeeÌýhas recentlyÌýcoedited aÌýcollection of essays reflectingÌýon the mobile ground beneath our feet, questioning the soil as both material and narrative in our interconnected territories: Mobile Soils.ÌýTexts by artists, curators, historians, engineers, environmental scientists, architects, gardeners and poets peer into the bright and dark worlds of the underground, look at memories and resilience on the ground, industry, migration and spectral presences on the overground. Throughout, authors revisitÌýtheir own practice confronted to present earthly attachments and ecological pressure.
This publication is the firstÌýone ofÌý, set up by Professor Gee himself.ÌýTETIÌýPress furthers the activity of TETIÌýGroup through publications engaging with industrial and cultural transformations of the late 20th andÌýearly 21st centuries. Mobile Soils also features an essay ofÌýFranklin Co-Chair of the academic division of Arts and Cultures,ÌýProfessorÌýCaroline Wiedmer, as well as an interview ofÌýFranklin Chair of the academic division of Environment, Math, Psychology and Health ProfessorÌýBrack HaleÌýby Moriah Simonds, class of 21.Ìý