Art and Creativity in an Era of Ecocide (eBook, PDF)

Embodiment, Performance and Practice
Redaktion: Pigott, Anna; Parry, Ben; Jones, Owain

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

What can creativity achieve in an era of ecocide? How are people using creative and artistic practices to engage with (and resist) the destruction of life on earth? What are the relationships between creativity and repair in the face of escalating global environmental crises? Across twelve compelling case studies, this book charts the emergence of diverse forms of artistic practice and brings together accounts of how artists, scholars and activists are creatively responding to environmental destruction.

Highlighting alternative approaches to creativity in both conventional art settings and daily life, the book demonstrates the major influence that ecological thought has had on contemporary creative practices. These are often more concerned with subtle processes of feeling, experience and embodiment than they are with charismatic 'eco-art' works. In doing so, this exploratory book develops a conception of creativity as an anti-ecocide endeavour, and provides timely theoretical and practical insights on art in an age of environmental destruction.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury UK eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 280
• Erscheinungstermin: 21. September 2023
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781350237247
• Artikelnr.: 68446222

Autorenporträt

Anna Pigott is Lecturer in Human Geography at Swansea University, UK. Working in the field of Environmental Humanities, she is particularly interested in the impact of art and storytelling on our responses to environmental, social and economic crises. Owain Jones is Emeritus Professor of Environmental Humanities at Bath Spa University, UK. He has published over eighty scholarly articles and edited four books including Visual Culture in the Northern British Archipelago (2017). Ben Parry is Senior Lecturer and Course Leader of the MA in Curatorial Practice at Bath School of Art, Bath Spa University, UK. He is co-editor of Waste Work: The art of Survival in Dharavi (2023)and works as an artist, curator and independent researcher at the intersections of art, activism and urban space.

Inhaltsangabe

List of Illustrations Introduction
Anna Pigott (Swansea University
UK)
Owain Jones (Bath Spa University
UK) and Ben Parry (Bath Spa University
UK) 1. A conversation through listening to everyday walks
Michelle Duffy (University of Newcastle
Australia)
Kaya Barry (Aalborg University
Denmark)
Caroline Scarles (University of Surrey
UK)
Peter Varley (Northumbria University
UK) and Michele Lobo (Deakin University
Australia) 2. Entangled encounters with an estuary: Making-with
making as coping
Lydia Halcrow(Independent researcher
UK) 3.Behavioural adaptation through reflective imagination via artistic experience in an era of ecocide
Alejandra Wah (University of Groningen
Netherlands) 4. Deep materialism and care-taking: A study of material relationships for the twenty-first century
Alison Harper (Independent researcher
UK) and Sarah Chave (University of Exeter
UK) 5. Willow
weaving
worlding and a politics of change
Anna Pigott (Swansea University
UK) 6. Be mindful: Plant intelligence
art and patience
Sue Spaid (Independent researcher) 7.The beckoning silence: Reconnecting humanity and nature on the Silent Trail
Laila Chin-Hui Fan (Ph.D. candidate at National Normal University
Taiwan) 8.Ancient boglands and the Irish peat industry: Does culture mitigate ecocide? Tim Collins (Collins & Goto Studio
UK) and Reiko Goto (Collins & Goto Studio
UK) 9.Interim Bangalore: Bodies as Sensory Data Collectors
Laura Denning (Independent researcher) 10.Rewriting the machinic Capitalocene: Using speculative fictional methods
Charlie Tweed (Bath Spa University
UK) 11. Incendiary: Curating art protest in the toxic airs of Stroud's rural green idyll
Patricia Brien(Ph.D. candidate at Bath Spa University
UK) 12. A zone to defend: The role of art and ritual in prefiguration
Ben Parry (Bath Spa University
UK) 13. Did the sky used to be full of birds? Claire Loder (Independent researcher
UK) Index