Sustainability without the I-sense is nonsense: Inner "technologies" for a viable future and the inner dimension of sustainability

Shelley Sacks: Chapter in book edited by Oliver Parodi & Kaidi Tamm (ed.), Personal Sustainability: Exploring the Far Side of Sustainable Development, Routledge (2018)ISBN: 9781138065086 eISBN: 9781315159997

In discussion with artist-curators Owen Griffiths [ways of Working] and Alessandra Saviotti [Arte Util] about the ‘participatory arena’: EXCHANGE VALUES on the table. FOr the exhibtion at the Whitworth Gallery, Manchester, 2023.

“Letter to Joseph Beuys from Shelley Sacks”. This publication was originally a museum wall text in the Neue Galerie, Kassel. It was part of the Survival Room in the Social Sculpture Lab that I curated for the Joseph Beuys Centenary in 2021. The 100-day Social Sculpture Lab, was hosted by the documenta Archive in the Neue Galerie, Kassel, with funding from the Hessische Kulturstiftung.

Subtitle: The Resurrection of the World in Us. in Oxford Uni. Press Handbook on Mental Health & Western Aesthetics. Ed. Martin Poltrum et al.

In German: Ästhetik des Wandels - Kunst und Klimaschutz - Shelley Sacks in conversation with Andrea Steckert of the Pestel Institute and Climate Culture Lab, Germany.

Shelley Sacks’ introduction to this conversation between Joseph Beuys and Volker Harlan offers a widened view of the aesthetic and insight into the field of social sculpture.

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'The places of the poetic continent are not physical places. They map the internal regions and contours of the inner human being that lives in a cosmos of other beings and life forms. They constellate the places of the soul.' This collection of poetic, philosophical and literary texts and full-colour images offers an ATLAS of the Poetic Continent - a treasure to study, contemplate and inspire action in the world. This ATLAS grew out of a social sculpture process in a city that invited its citizens - individually and collectively - to enter into a process of active reflection on the question 'what am I doing in the world?' This project confirmed that the connection between inner and outer work, and the inner workspace, is central to all social sculpture processes. The maps for this poetic continent open up pathways that enable us to 'come to our senses'. Discovered only in our engagement with the world, and inspired by the constellations of the soul, they offer distilled understandings on the path to a new society: a viable future of free, humane and ecological citizens.