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Arts Of Living On A Damaged Planet: Ghosts And Monsters Of The Anthropocene By Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing, Heather Anne Swanson, Elaine Gan, And Nils Bubandt, Randy Lee Cutler
Arts Of Living On A Damaged Planet: Ghosts And Monsters Of The Anthropocene By Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing, Heather Anne Swanson, Elaine Gan, And Nils Bubandt, Randy Lee Cutler
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Review of Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing, Heather Anne Swanson, Elaine Gan, and Nils Bubandt's Arts of Living on a Damaged Planet: Ghosts and Monsters of the Anthropocene.
Environmental Art And Activism: Editors’ Notebook, Alec Follett, Melanie Dennis Unrau
Environmental Art And Activism: Editors’ Notebook, Alec Follett, Melanie Dennis Unrau
The Goose
Editorial introduction to the special issue on environmental art and activism, The Goose, volume 17, issue 2 (2019).
Ecological Art: Art With A Purpose, Aaron M. Ellison, David Buckley Borden
Ecological Art: Art With A Purpose, Aaron M. Ellison, David Buckley Borden
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Ecological art is purposeful and often prescriptive: the actions and directions intended by the artists for activists to undertake often are clearly represented. Yet, ecological art has been no more successful than, for example, targeted scientific research, deposits on returnable bottles, or land-protection campaigns at slowing global warming, reducing the amount of waste we generate every day, or halting the ongoing sixth mass extinction in the history of the Earth. Here, we consider the idea that prescriptive ecological art provides insufficient mental space for creative reflection about future scenarios of, and responses to, environmental change. We ask whether, by presenting …
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.