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Full-Text Articles in Arts and Humanities
The Middle Of The Middle: Purgatory, Pilgrimage, And Human And Plant Mobility In A Time Of Climate Crisis, Stephen S. Collis
The Middle Of The Middle: Purgatory, Pilgrimage, And Human And Plant Mobility In A Time Of Climate Crisis, Stephen S. Collis
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This paper, adapted from a talk given for the Institute of the Humanities at Simon Fraser University on April 26 2023, explores intersecting issues taken up by an in-progress long poem I am currently writing. That long poem, “The Middle,” explores questions of climate displacement, migration, and refuge via a writing-though of Dante’s Purgatorio—itself a poem of pilgrimage. A further context for both the poem and the paper about the poem is an ongoing project of walking in solidarity with refugees, asylum seekers, and immigration detainees that the author has been involved with since 2015. In seeking to “override …
De La Nature Au Processus D’Artification. Matière [Forme/Objet] Sens, Alexandre Melay
De La Nature Au Processus D’Artification. Matière [Forme/Objet] Sens, Alexandre Melay
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Les progrès technologiques modifient radicalement ce qui nous était autrefois familier. Ce sentiment troublant venu de l’ère Anthropocène met en lumière l’impact humain sur la nature. Mais la perte d’un monde naturel nous oblige à gérer notre environnement en tant qu’environnement artificiel. Face à cette mutation profonde du concept même de nature, l’art opère un processus d’artification, renouvelant la nature dans de nouvelles formes néoarchéologiques et de nouvelles esthétiques, par le « passage du non-art en art ».
Soleil D'Azur, Camille Sova
Soleil D'Azur, Camille Sova
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Ôde à la liberté et à l’espace, « Soleil d’azur » est une invitation à une contemplation profondément active : des haies clôturées jusqu’aux dunes infinies tant désirées, nous suivons le parcours d’un regard poétique qui transforme le paysage au fil de son chemin. Progressivement, l’exploitation humaine de l’espace cède sa place à une nature sauvage : le pin se redresse, l’horizon se dégage et la vérité, lentement, se dévoile. Enfin, le soleil n’est plus brulure mais lumière.
The Universe's Greatest Disappointment, Mix Hart
The Universe's Greatest Disappointment, Mix Hart
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"The Universe's Greatest Disappointment" encourages literary discourse on the ecological catastrophe that is currently happening on Earth today. Specifically, the role humanity plays in the Earth's destruction. The poem is playful, yet poignant, and is an example of regenerative-culture, eco-narrative. It challenges the anthropocentric philosophy that has dictated industrialized human societies since the Anthropocene.
From Daystart Songflight: A Morning Journal, Brian Bartlett
From Daystart Songflight: A Morning Journal, Brian Bartlett
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This piece, an excerpt from an ongoing manuscript of plein-air nature writing, is one of forty projected journal entries involving excursions beginning before sunrise, with exploration of natural settings and observations of natural phenomena (birds, plants, mammals, insects, water, clouds, light, the sun, etc.) interwoven with readings about morning in scientific texts, poetry, and other kinds of writing.
Rockhounding, Seafaring, And Other Material Tales For The End Of The World, Noemie Fortin
Rockhounding, Seafaring, And Other Material Tales For The End Of The World, Noemie Fortin
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In the face of accelerated environmental degradation and climate instability, the future of the Earth and of all life on earth is difficult to visualize. Therefore, the different mediums through which we consider environmental issues are just as important as the actions we take to address them. Focusing on three projects combining art, science, and activism, this article suggests a compilation of material tales. They tell stories of plastic rocks and aluminum nuggets where the protagonists are partly finely crafted objects, partly waste materials, and sometimes both at once. Artists Kelly Jazvac, Yesenia Thibeault-Picazo, and the collective Studio Swine collaborate …
What's Next?: Eco Materialism & Contemporary Art By Linda Weintraub, Taylor Eggan
What's Next?: Eco Materialism & Contemporary Art By Linda Weintraub, Taylor Eggan
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Review of Linda Weintraub's What's Next?: Eco Materialism & Contemporary Art
Upstream Downtown: Theatre Creation Through A Feminist And Multispecies Lens, Morgan Johnson, Alexandra Simpson
Upstream Downtown: Theatre Creation Through A Feminist And Multispecies Lens, Morgan Johnson, Alexandra Simpson
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In the historically masculine Western sciences, we are told we can fully know a being by dissecting, labelling, testing, observing, and documenting. This article explores how multispecies and feminist theatre creation and performance, specifically in the style of clown and bouffon, can work to resist such narratives and offer a more sentient understanding of interspecies relationships. Our investigations focus on our journey as two female creators of Upstream Downtown, a research-based, physical theatre play about salmon and humans finding home in the settler colonial city of Toronto.
Save The Trees. Save Humanity., Lindsey Davis
Environmental Art And Activism: Editors’ Notebook, Alec Follett, Melanie Dennis Unrau
Environmental Art And Activism: Editors’ Notebook, Alec Follett, Melanie Dennis Unrau
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Editorial introduction to the special issue on environmental art and activism, The Goose, volume 17, issue 2 (2019).
Writer As Activist, Activist As Writer, Marybeth Holleman
Writer As Activist, Activist As Writer, Marybeth Holleman
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This brief essay describes the quandry and found guidelines of balancing art and activism, specifically as a writer. Examples come from the author's own work.
A Field Guide For Weathering: Embodied Tactics For Collectives Of Two Or More Humans, Jennifer Mae Hamilton, Astrida Neimanis
A Field Guide For Weathering: Embodied Tactics For Collectives Of Two Or More Humans, Jennifer Mae Hamilton, Astrida Neimanis
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In our inherited meteorological practices and frameworks, weather conditions are managed for us in a range of ways (for example, through architecture, technology, commodity culture, infrastructure, economic rationale). This field guide brings the weather back to the body. A traditional field guide provides tools for the individual sovereign human subject to observe and document nature “over there”. In contrast, through a range of different activities, our field guide not only invites investigation and cataloguing of the field that we also comprise, but also challenges what counts as a noteworthy observation regarding the weather and also climate.
Sea Squad, Liam Geary Baulch
Sea Squad, Liam Geary Baulch
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The Sea Squad is a band of cheerleaders against climate change. Taking action as a team in formation, they gather momentum, inviting all people to cheer with them, mimicking the infinitely expandable nature of the seas' molecular structure. The work was developed and performed as a bilingual project at Est-Nord-Est in Saint-Jean-Port-Joli, Quebec, Canada, and has since been performed and exhibited internationally. The following poems are some of the chants that Sea Squad use to get a crowd cheering together against climate change.
Among The Ruins, Edie Steiner
Among The Ruins, Edie Steiner
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Photographic essay, a version of which was first presented at the 2011 Green Words/Green Worlds Conference, Faculty of Environmental Studies, York University, Toronto. Images previously presented in the exhibition Abject Transformations at Arcadia Art Gallery, Toronto.
The Wasteland, Tiasa Adhya
The Wasteland, Tiasa Adhya
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Riverine floodplains and deltas that have cradled human civilization and are now ravaged by ecologically blind land-use policies form the context of this poem. Policies that term nutrient rich wetlands as "wastelands" are economically motivated and backed by policy makers for short-term gains. The conversion of wetlands makes refugees out of resident wild species. The first few lines of the poem describe the character of the fishing cat, the only cat in South Asia that is adapted for wetlands and is an indicator of the health of wetland ecosystems. The poem talks of a nemesis that awaits the human world—we …
Au-Delà De La Nature : The Blue Fossil Entropic Stories De Julian Charrière, Kyveli Mavrokordopoulou
Au-Delà De La Nature : The Blue Fossil Entropic Stories De Julian Charrière, Kyveli Mavrokordopoulou
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In this short article - case study, I explore the question of how art may help us reflect on the new conception of nature that the Anthropocene confronts us with. I focus on the photographic series The Blue Fossil Entropic Stories I,II,III (2013) by Swiss artist Julian Charrière and its reassessment of an idea of nature inherited from the romantic period. I analyse the way in which these pictures reinterpret romantic landscape painting in order to suggest an equal relation of human and nature, where human and non-human entities hold equal sway. My theoretical framework is based on Timothy Morton’s …
Cerdded, Fay Stevens
Nine Poems On The Death Of My Mother, Jaime Robles
Me Artsy Compiled And Edited By Drew Hayden Taylor, Nathalie N. Hager 2159876
Me Artsy Compiled And Edited By Drew Hayden Taylor, Nathalie N. Hager 2159876
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Review of Me Artsy compiled and edited by Drew Hayden Taylor.
Canine Haiku: Yellow Ball, Julie Andreyev, Tom (Canine)
Canine Haiku: Yellow Ball, Julie Andreyev, Tom (Canine)
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Poetry by Julie Andreyev and Tom.
The Rooster And The Lemon, Luis Mario Guerra, Connie M. Morey
The Rooster And The Lemon, Luis Mario Guerra, Connie M. Morey
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'The Rooster and the Lemon' is a collaborative work of critical-creative writing and photography between artists-writers Luis Mario Guerra and Connie Michele Morey. The text and image is a part of a larger body of work that emerged from a trip to Havana in December 2013 and is still in the process of unfolding through additional visual forms. The prose and photographs question the im/possibility of stasis and taxonomical containment in an ecological continuum where the processes of death and life and interdependent and imperceptibly entangled.
Vernal Pool: A Participatory Art Project About Place + Precipitation, Karen Miranda Abel, Jessica Marion Barr
Vernal Pool: A Participatory Art Project About Place + Precipitation, Karen Miranda Abel, Jessica Marion Barr
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Produced by Karen Miranda Abel with Jessica Marion Barr, Vernal Pool is an immersive, elemental water installation created as a participatory, contemplative inquiry into our transitory interrelationships with water and landscape. From November 2013 to April 2014, 114 individuals across Canada and abroad gathered snow samples as a form of extrinsic artistic practice about place and precipitation. With the arrival of spring, the reservoir of melted snow was convened for four days at Toronto’s historic Gladstone Hotel to create Vernal Pool.
Guddling About: Experiments In Vital Materialism With Particular Regard To Water, Minty Donald
Guddling About: Experiments In Vital Materialism With Particular Regard To Water, Minty Donald
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With reference to Jane Bennett’s notion of "vital materialism," this photo essay documents and reflects on Guddling About: a series of experiments or actions carried out by artists Nick Millar and Minty Donald with the Bow River and its watershed in Calgary and Southern Alberta in August-September 2013. Each experiment is described as a set of instructions — a script or score for an event — which can be enacted in any location where human settlement has evolved around a river. The experiments will be repeated, and new ones developed, with the River Clyde in Glasgow and Southern Scotland in …