Rewilding as a Model for Creative and Affective Practices

Josh Wagner

doi:10.33178/boolean.2026.1.2

Authors

Josh Wagner PhD Candidate

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.33178/boolean.2026.1.2

Keywords:

Ecofeminism, Posthumanism, Grief Studies, Rewilding, Creative Practices, Improvisation

Abstract

Grieving with Forests is a practice-led research project that explores novel perceptual and creative affordances of a grieving body engaged in movement and sensory-based artistic practice in collaboration with forest environments. The work asks how ecological attitudes and relationships might be altered by replacing the “recovery” directive of modernist western grief practices with an ecocentric perspective on loss that embraces rupture and ongoingness. How might one grieve differently, create differently, and even carry out research differently through paradigms of complexity and unknowing referred to in this paper under the umbrella of methodological (re)wilding?

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