On the fifty-first Earth Day (this past Thursday), two of my classes premiered a virtual exhibition of environmentally themed art. Called “Intimations: Eco-Artistic Glimpses Through the Fog of an Unwinding Pandemic,” the exhibition features several dozen works in a multitude of media including paintings and drawings, digital images, collages, narrative poetry and haiku, 3-D works […]
Posts Tagged ‘EcoCultureLab’
Intimations (through the fog of an unwinding pandemic)…
Posted in Eco-culture, tagged Earth Day, Earth Week exhibition, eco-arts, EcoCultureLab, environmental art, environmental studies, Rubenstein School, student work, University of Vermont on April 25, 2021 | Leave a Comment »
Eco-humanities seminar
Posted in Academe, Eco-theory, tagged Adrian Ivakhiv, Advanced Environmental Humanities, courses, EcoCultureLab, environmental humanities, readings, University of Vermont on January 29, 2021 | Leave a Comment »
I will be making parts of my “Advanced Environmental Humanities” course open to the EcoCultureLab community and a limited broader public. Technical details remain to be worked out, but I’d like to make our readings and discussions open, so as to include interested participants from outside the university community. The course is a graduate and […]
Earth Week posts
Posted in Eco-culture, tagged Earth Week, Earth Week 2020, EarthDay+50, EcoCultureLab on April 24, 2020 | Leave a Comment »
I’ve been posting short pieces all this week in connection with EcoCultureLab‘s EarthDay+50 events, which include talks and a student arts exhibition. You can read the posts here: Monday: Frozen Moment Tuesday: Art and Sustainability in a Pandemic Wednesday (Earth Day): The Day Itself Thursday: Creativity is Not Optional Friday: What We Did, What Will […]
Feverish world, or ecotopia now?
Posted in Climate change, Manifestos & auguries, tagged activism, Burlington Vermont, eco-arts, EcoCultureLab, ecotopia, environmental humanities, Feverish World, University of Vermont on November 21, 2018 | 6 Comments »
Feverish World (2016-2068): Arts and Sciences of Collective Survival was premised on the acknowledgment that the coming decades will be feverish in more ways than one — climatologically, politically, economically, militarily — and that the arts will be essential in helping us come to terms with that feverishness. In my comments opening the symposium, I laid […]