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Symbiocene@Ruigoord.NL

Posted in Anthropocene, Cultural politics, Eco-culture, tagged , , , , , , , , , on July 27, 2023 | 1 Comment »

Two things to consider before your morning coffee. 1) We are living through a Holocene collapse event,* when the nearly 12,000 year old regime of relative climate stability, the “comfort zone” for most of what we know as human civilization, is beginning to tear to shreds. (Here’s just one of the shreds from yesterday’s news.) […]

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Art & ecology at AESS

Posted in Eco-culture, tagged , , on June 13, 2014 | Leave a Comment »

Two quick observations about art and ecology at Welcome to the Anthropocene: 1) I’m impressed with how well art has been integrated into the program, thanks in part to Jennifer Joy‘s work in weaving her own performances with a troupe of local artists and dancers throughout the events. (And how none of it is the cloying kind […]

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Mosaïcultures

Posted in Eco-culture, tagged , , , on September 16, 2013 | 2 Comments »

Some pictures from the Mosaïcultures international exhibition of horticultural arts at Montreal’s Botanical Gardens. The exhibition continues until September 29. Lise Cormier’s Mother Earth

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iLAND’s perceptual alchemy

Posted in Eco-culture, Spirit matter, tagged , , , , , on March 30, 2011 | 3 Comments »

Some of today’s most important eco-artists — people like Patricia Johanson, Betsy Damon, and others — work on a landscape scale with interdisciplinary groups of participants to render socio-ecological change into aesthetically tangible and artistically significant forms. Experimental dancer and choreographer Jennifer Monson’s work falls into this category as well, though, as dance, it tends […]

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Henry’s long take

Posted in Music & soundscape, Visual culture, tagged on November 15, 2009 | 1 Comment »

A beautiful piece by improvisational guitarist and deep-sea diver Henry Kaiser, shot somewhere off the coast of Antarctica. (He’s done similar scenes in a couple of Werner Herzog films, Encounters at the End of the World and the sci-fi docu-fantasy The Wild Blue Yonder.) Somewhere around the 7-8 minute mark, I was so overcome with […]

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fairy villages, bowerbird art, & other ambiguous objects

Posted in Eco-culture, Philosophy, Spirit matter, Visual culture, tagged , , , , , , , on September 20, 2009 | 56 Comments »

One of my (largely dormant) pet projects over the years has been to document and theorize anonymous, self-decomposing artworks made in collaboration with nature and time. These works are creative engagements with environments — often simple rearrangements of physical materials (rocks, wood, found pieces of scrap metal or discarded trash, and the like) — by […]

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eco-arts & ‘experimental geography’ round-up

Posted in Eco-culture, Visual culture, tagged , , , , on July 14, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

The eco-arts blogosphere has kept simmering through the early summer. Greenmuseum.blog, connected to the excellent online environmental resource and exhibition space Green Museum, has taken on a new look. The blog had recently covered the Earth Matters on Stage EcoDrama Symposium, held at the University of Oregon. Mike Lawler’s EcoTheatre blog also provided coverage of […]

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Flight Patterns, Earthrise, et al.

Posted in Eco-culture, Visual culture, tagged , on June 10, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

Those links to some of the art pieces Andy Revkin has posted on Dot Earth could be easily missed on my previous post, so I’m posting them separately here. Aaron Koblin’s “Flight Patterns” series animates airplane flight patterns over the United States: Revkin has a brief interview with Koblin as well. I find that the […]

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artist environmental videos

Posted in Eco-culture, tagged , , on May 1, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

Gemma Lloyd on RSA’s Arts & Ecology blog shares a nice collection of ten artist videos in response to the environment. The others — mostly “classics” by Smithson, Beuys, Turrell, et al. — can be seen here.

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finger pointing at the moon

Posted in Eco-culture, Visual culture, tagged , , , , , , on April 7, 2009 | 2 Comments »

I know it’s just that they’ve touched my inner goth, but these graveyard photographs really do express something of what I find most appealing about the idea of immanence — that death is in the midst of life, the two entwined like the dying branches encircling the face of living stone in Onkel Wart’s photograph: […]

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polar bag

Posted in Eco-culture, Media ecology, Visual culture, tagged , , , , on April 1, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

Ambient electroacoustic artists Stars of the Lid do a beautiful job with thisEnvironmental Defense Fund NYC subway ad campaign video. The other ads in the series can be viewed here.

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scenes from a recession

Posted in Politics, Visual culture, tagged , on March 26, 2009 | 2 Comments »

There are some great pictures to be found here, at The Big Picture: abandoned subdivisions and building sites, landscapes of unused freight containers (#34) and disused newspaper racks (#30), and “Free Weekly Tours of Quality Foreclosed Homes, Prices Won’t Last!!!” (#9, from Las Vegas). There’s something Ed Burtynskyesque about them… On the topic of Ed […]

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