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Carl De Keyzer : higher ground
In 'Moments before the Flood' vat Carl De Keyzer de idee dat Europa door de opwarming van het klimaat dreigt te overstromen, in beelden. In 'Higher Ground' is de vloedgolf al achter de rug. De gelauwerde Magnumfotograaf verbeeldt een fictionele wereld waarin mensen hogere oorden opzoeken en migreren naar de bergtoppen. In foto's genomen in Oostenrijk, Zwitserland, Duitsland, Frankrijk en Spanje, vinden ironie en oprechte bezorgdheid elkaar. Zo zet 'Higher Ground' aan tot nadenken over de klimaatverandering. De Franse literaire grootheid Philippe Claudel schreef er een treffend fictief verhaal bij. Exhibition: Botanique, Brussels, Belgium (February 2017- ).
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Representing nature: art and climate change
Climate change is now an established scientific fact, and dealing with it may require significant shifts in consumption and economic organization. A key question is how these changes can be achieved, by regulation or shifts of consciousness on the parts of individuals. Among the means by which a shift of awareness might occur is cultural work - including the production and reception of art and literature. But does art which represents climate change distance or normalize the problem, or can new kinds of art construct new ways in which to see or intervene in the conditions and systems which produce global warming? The article considers recent exhibitions of art dealing with environmental and climate change issues in the UK and USA. Before that, the article summarizes aspects of recent relevant work on art by geographers. Looking at cases of environmentalist art, the article initially differentiates art representing climate change in dramatic images from an emerging tendency to practical intervention. It argues that art may contribute to a shift in attitudes, but wonders whether intervention-as-art is in its way another form of representation, and whether art inevitably distances whatever problems it addresses. This is an insoluble difficulty: the real is always mediated and distanced in culture, yet art may still draw attention to conditions and to the inherent contradictions they contain.
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Why is the Arctic Always White? Circumpolar Indigenous Artists in the Age of the Anthropocene
Several mounting evidence emerge that the environment is in crisis - obvious examples being species extinction threatening the earth's biodiversity, and the dire consequences of anthropogenic global warming. These concerns have not gone unnoticed in the art world, where exhibitions dedicated to the anthropocene proliferate amongst international and sometimes wasteful biennales. Beyond the aesthetic spectacle of environmental destruction, or the intellectual nihilism of pondering our correlated demise, is a disdain for the environment. The climate crisis isn't the only reason why people become aware of the importance of an environmental art history. Moreover, Inuit perspectives are making their debut at the 2019 Venice Biennale's Canada Pavilion, with a project by Isuma, an artist collective that continues the difficult work of representing their land and ways of life to outsiders on their own terms.
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Seeing Global Warming: Contemporary Art and the Fate of the Planet
Contemporary environmental artists are increasingly turning their attention to climate change. Focusing on an exhibition curated by the renowned art critic Lucy R. Lippard, this essay places selected works in dialogue with mass media framings of environmental problems to reveal how contemporary art can generate new ways of seeing global warming. I argue that the show sought to forge perceptual links between local and global environmental change and to use both doomsday and inspiring modes of address in a dialectical fashion. By melding science, aesthetics, and politics in an imaginative way, many of the artists represented the humanistic dimensions of the crisis and, at times, even gestured toward a promising vision of environmentalism.
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Nuclear Activities and Modern Catastrophes: Art Faces the Radioactive Waves
Nuclear-related artworks provide a favorable terrain for investigation of our contemporary epoch, for they relate to a science whose applications are highly political and that is spreading beyond the Western world. In times of global warming, indeed, the prospect of nuclear energy reappears as the latest sought-after modern technology. But after Hiroshima and Chernobyl, and given the dualistic civilian and military use of the atom, how do artists react to nuclear activities and their inherent politics? Can art provide an effective counter-practice to global nuclear politics? The author argues that art and science share the same project—the modernist project—and that art, like science, has to question its modern heritage.
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Two-Day Sustainability Festival to Take Place At Masdar City
The list of activities includes: * Little inventors' competition, that engages children in scientific activity, and encourages them to invent ways to conserve energy or utilise alternative energy sources * An earth awareness workshop, that allows participants to understand the basics of water pollution, acid rain and the greenhouse effect * A garbage workshop, offering an introduction to improving the state of the environment through waste reduction and the concepts of reduce, reuse and recycle * An exploration workshop allowing participants to learn about the interconnections that exist between all the living things in ecosystems, including human beings. * Windmill making for children * Flower planting * Eco arts and craft sessions * Organic market * Food and live entertainment * Recycling center Open from 11am to 9pm on the 24th and 25th January, the festival will take place at the end of the second edition of Abu Dhabi Sustainability Week - a week-long series of events, conferences and exhibitions that focus on the interconnected challenges and opportunities of sustainable growth.
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