Autre magazine is pleased to announce the release of The Biodiversity Issue: ACCESS TO NEW TOOLS—an entire issue about the environment. We were given a paradise of epic proportions but we fucked it all up. Over 60,000 words and nearly 400 pages, Autre’s Biodiversity Issue asks readers to take a fascinating dive into our fragile ecological world. After two years of living through unprecedented climate change phenomena and a summer of catastrophic natural disasters, this is the most urgent edition we have ever published.

In this issue, we have a series of in-depth conversations with groundbreaking and pioneering visual artists who paved the way for ecological thought in art. We pay a visit to HERMAN DE VRIES, a botanist and member of the ZERO Group, in his lush meadow paradise in Bavaria to talk about his experimentation with LSD and the non-hierarchal systems of the natural world. We talk to NEWTON HARRISON, who with his wife HELEN HARRISON became a dual investigative powerhouse and spent decades examining the warming planet through a series of large-scale works in collaboration with scientists. We also interview MICHELLE STUART, whose earthworks examined her own psyche in relation to nature and a sense of place to attempt a better understanding of the environment.

With a focus on the plight of endangered species, we dedicate a unique cover story to the Turtle Conservancy in Ojai, California where filmmaker (director of Tiger King) and former nightlife impresario, ERIC GOODE, has created a headquarters for saving the rarest and most threatened turtles and tortoises on Earth. Goode and esteemed herpetologist, RUSSELL MITTERMEIER, discuss biodiversity and the importance of saving these vital reptiles. Another cover feature analyzes the work of the young Nigerian-American artist DOZIE KANU with an interview that considers his diasporan roots, the colonial ghosts that inform his work, and access to a set of worldbuilding tools for a new cultural ecosystem. Another cover comes to us from Los Angeles-based ONLINE CERAMICS, whose tongue-in-cheek graphical language expound a Be Here Now ethos and love for nature—designers ALIX ROSS and ELIJAH FUNK converse about Serpent Mound, DMT, and optimism for the future. For our fifth cover, we collaborate again with ReBirth Studios, a sustainable fashion initiative from ABOUT YOU, for a unique editorial shot by CG WATKINS in the forests of Bad Schandau, Germany, featuring a collection of remixed unsold garments from Drykorn’s deadstock factory by stylist NATACHA VORANGER.

Other features include an interview of designer HERON PRESTON by HANS ULRICH OBRIST on sustainable fashion and waste management. Chef and slow food activist ALICE WATERS and gangsta gardener RON FINLEY on planting a revolution in your backyard. Co-founder of Black Lives Matter, PATRISSE CULLORS, and fellow artists ALEXANDRE ALI REZA DORRIZ and NOÉ OLIVAS on their abolitionist center for healing, CRENSHAW DAIRY MART. We also talk to artist TACITA DEAN about her fascination with four-leaf clovers, objective chance, and cosmic connection to JG BALLARD and ROBERT SMITHSON. A conversation between artists ARIANA PAPADEMETROPOULOS and JIM SHAW explores extraterrestrial cults, like UNARIUS, who utilized esoteric pseudoscience to image a better world. GLENN KAINO chats about the power of bioluminescence. IVÁN ARGOTE offers better solutions for contested monuments. GABRIEL RICO discusses balancing the equations of the natural and geopolitical world using a new organic language. Japanese photographer TAKASHI HOMMA on capturing RADIOACTIVE MUSHROOMS. Artist ISABELLE ALBUQUERQUE and biologist JEFF SIKICH on the strange private behaviors of the MOUNTAIN LIONS of Los Angeles. Over fourteen pages, we take a journey to SKY HIGH FARM where artist DAN COLEN is finding the intersection of regenerative farming and his art practice. Photographer duo MAT+KAT observe the SALTON SEA as a symbol of ecological disaster. BENNET PEREZ documents the COMMUNITY FRIDGES of Los Angeles. LANI TROCK writes an essay that explores Web3 as a new digital utopia. And finally, editor-in-chief OLIVER KUPPER proposes ANDREA ZITTEL’S A-Z WEST as a desert laboratory for the future.

This issue also feature fashion editorials that explore the natural world and sustainability. Photographer PAULO SUTCH and stylist JULIA EHRLICH take a hike in Los Angeles for a story about GORPCORE. DANIELA MÜLLER-BRUNKE and MAX JOLIVET visit a utopic community in the suburbs of Berlin, HENDRIK SCHNEIDER and BILLY LOBOS take a dip for an accessories story called BLACK SPRING, DANIEL ROCHÉ and HAKAN SOLAK explore the ancient tradition of Turkish carpet weaving. ROMAN GOEBEL and TOBY GRIMDITCH visit an urban greenhouse for a story about conspicuous consumption. SCOTT GALLAGHER and CHARLOTTE ROBERTS visit The Knepp Estate to reinterpret ethical fashion design on the grounds of one of the biggest rewilding projects in the world. HORST DIEKGERDES and ANNABELLE JOUOT imagine a FUTURE WARDROBE comprised entirely of circular fashion. SAM NIXON and STELLA GREENSPAN imagine new empowered identities for future ecologies.

380 Pages. 60,000 words.

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COVERS:
01 herman de vries by Joseph Kadow
02 Turtle Conservancy by Adarsha Benjamin
03 Dozie Kanu by Parker Woods
04 Online Ceramics
05 About You ReBirth by CG Watkins