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Finn Harvor

About Selected work Practice

Selected work & projects

Finn Harvor Artist · Writer · Academic · Filmmaker

Independent practice · South Korea

01 / About

Work across disciplines, attentive to the world as it is becoming.

Finn Harvor is an artist, writer, academic and filmmaker based in South Korea. His work moves between moving images, writing, visual art and research, often exploring the intersections of human experience, technology, conflict and the natural world.

Across these forms, he is interested in the structures that shape ordinary life: the systems we inhabit, the environments we alter, and the private histories carried within public events.

02 / Selected work

Projects & ideas

Film · Writing · Visual art · Research

PROJECT 01

The Energies: The Brooms of the System

An ambient moviepoem built from winter field recordings and observations of the everyday labour that keeps urban life in motion.

Film / Soundscape / Moviepoem

PROJECT 02

The Falconia Narratives

A speculative literary project examining possible futures, ecological disruption, political conflict and the choices that shape collective life.

Fiction / Interactive narrative

PROJECT 03

The Business Army

A historical novel exploring the 1930s political crisis surrounding the attempted formation of a business-backed force against the Roosevelt administration.

Historical fiction / Research

PROJECT 04

The Green Diaries Project

An ongoing record of environmental change, landscape, everyday observation and the human consequences of the Anthropocene.

Writing / Environment / Observation

Film & video

Authorial films, moviepoems, sound works and moving-image experiments.

Writing

Fiction, essays, poetry and projects attentive to history and contemporary life.

Art

Visual work, drawing, photography and interdisciplinary projects.

Academic work

Research, conference presentations and critical inquiry across cultural forms.

Art-making is a way of attending to the world: its visible structures, its overlooked energies, and the possibilities that remain unfinished.

Finn Harvor

Artist · Writer · Academic · Filmmaker

Based in South Korea

Baram Writer

 

Baram Writer is a hybrid videopoem/ screenplay fiction that I wrote around twenty years ago. It was originally published in the (now defunct but excellent) online literary journal Dark Sky.

The idea I had was to write a poem with accompaniment “stills”, as if the poem had already been produced as a movie (I’ve done the same with short stories and novel manuscripts). Because Dark Sky evaporated from its original site, in 2008 I archived the project as it originally appeared: https://baramwriter.blogspot.com/2008/11/baram-writer.html?m=1

And I’ve made a few videopoem versions of it since. 

For example:

 Baram Writer

https://youtu.be/oPHzuqDuAec

And here: https://youtu.be/Oc9PS6vXd40?si=YaoC7k87-iQyy3hB

한강에서/ At the Han

 

경상남도의 하늘

 

Greener Cities 1

 

A public conversation · Cities and ecology

How Can We Make Our Cities Greener?

Cities are fundamental to human society. They bring people together, make cultural and economic life possible, and create opportunities that would be difficult to sustain in isolation.

But cities can also damage the environments on which they depend. Traffic contributes to air pollution and greenhouse-gas emissions. Roads and buildings absorb heat and replace living ground with impermeable surfaces. Urban development can fragment habitats, intensify flooding, generate waste and leave too little room for trees, birds and other forms of life.

These problems are not inevitable. Well-designed cities can use less energy, make walking and cycling safer, improve public transport, restore streams and green spaces, protect biodiversity and become healthier places to live. A densely populated city can even have a smaller environmental footprint per person than a more sprawling settlement, provided its infrastructure and policies support that outcome.

There is no single blueprint. The best ideas often begin with people who know a particular street, neighbourhood or city through everyday experience.

Your city · Your ideas

What would you change?

Think of a city you know well. It might be the place where you live now, somewhere you grew up, or a city you visit regularly. What practical change would make it more ecologically friendly?

• Could a dangerous road become safer for pedestrians and cyclists?
• Where would additional trees, parks or restored waterways make the greatest difference?
• How could public transport, delivery services or building design become cleaner?
• What local policy or community initiative is already working and deserves to be copied?

Join the conversation

Share the city or neighbourhood, describe the environmental problem, and suggest a realistic improvement. You can also reply to another reader's suggestion and build on it.

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A public discussion about sustainable cities, urban ecology and the future of our communities.

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