Exploring the future of the planet through enquiry, connections + creativity
ecoPULSE.art is the online home of ecology-centred, interdisciplinary projects exploring relationships with, responses to and narratives about our place in the natural world and within rural and regional territories, wherever they may be. Founded by Kim V. Goldsmith in 2020 for the Mosses and Marshes project, it has continued to support several collaborative, place-based, environmental art projects since.
EOFY fundraiser for SOIL+AiR project
We’re seeking to raise funds through the Australian Cultural Fund – all donations over A$2 are tax-deductible (only in Australia). We’d love your support. Find out more about the SOIL+AiR creative future landscapes project. Fundraising ends 30 June 2024.
Home to the Australian Walking Artists network
When art, science and community come together it allows us to understand the complexity and sensitivities around social and ecological belonging. Art has the power to break down barriers, provoke conversations, and importantly, transcend the politics that too often dictate our regional futures.
Kim V. Goldsmith
#SoundOfSoils
This project will be presented at the Centennial of the International Union of Soil Sciences (IUSS) Congress with Prof. Anne Yoncha (USA), 19-21 May 2024. The paper is titled Sound of Soils: Two approaches to a multisensory understanding of soil.
Learn more about our projects
Some of the deepest truths are expressible only by poetry or metaphor.
Dave Pritchard, Foreword, MOSSES AND MARSHES, 2021
Past project updates
ecoPULSE project updates, or field notes, are written up during projects. They’re listed in a sticky post at the top of the blog page > CADENCE.
KIM V. GOLDSMITH‘s interdisciplinary practice is informed by her past professional life as a journalist, farmer, and communications specialist in the agriculture and natural resources sectors. She’s also an experienced project manager and arts administrator. Kim’s deep love and interest in rural and regional ecologies goes back to her childhood growing up on a large working farm in central northwest New South Wales. Her creative practice over the past two decades has consistently explored the complexities and nuances of human relationships with the environment.
ecoPULSE.art was founded as an online platform in 2020 as a way of bringing together the process-driven, creative social and acoustic ecology projects Kim had been developing over several years—documenting the processes of these projects and others that invite artists and other knowledge holders to collaborate. Projects are financed through grants, fundraising and self-funding.
WHO FOUNDED ecoPULSE
“Kim is an example of what regional arts should be, not art just made regionally, but art that questions and challenges regionality as a limitation, that sees in its extreme the opportunity to be revelatory.”
JESSICA MOORE, DUBBO REGIONAL COUNCIL CULTURAL DEVELOPMENT COORDINATOR, 2019
Pictured on the cliff tops at the base of the Skagi peninsula, along the east coast of the Húnaflói, Iceland in 2019
ecoPULSE.art Projects
Using a range of art-making mediums, community consultations, research and investigation, storytelling, and immersive installation, ecoPULSE.art projects aim to consider and present new perspectives about the ecologies of rural and regional territories. We also love sharing our skills and knowledge. Our projects also include opportunities to learn from our artists and community experts.
Project field notes can be found in the blog.
Since 2020, our projects have been funded through a combination of self-raised funds, fundraising through the Australian Cultural Fund, and Government grants.
We acknowledge the traditional owners and custodians of the lands on which we work across Australia and other First Nations countries, and we pay our respects to Elders past and present. Sovereignty has never been ceded. It always was and always will be, Aboriginal land.