What comes after ‘global’ exhibition histories? Art between the ‘planetary’ and the ‘earthly’

Emerging from fifteen years working with colleagues around the world on exhibition histories for contemporary art, this essay uses “ecological exposability” as a means of appraising art here and today. In other words, it simply asks: how may public engagement with art situate us in more lively ways, implicating us in the ecosystems wherever we find ourselves, while simultaneously encouraging us to embed within the environment – aesthetically, critically and carefully – on a worldwide horizon? In particular, the exhibition possibilities for a work of art anchored in the West Coast of Scotland is explored, for its translocal and transcontinental resonances.