We have previously covered the subject of collapse and recently talked about extinction. This beautiful short film, part of a larger project, takes us to a zone where one of the major 'collapse' events, the meltdown of the Chernobyl reactor, has meant that we can see one of our potential future: the one where the... Continue Reading →
Art in the Anthropocene | Xavier Cortada
The introduction to the current issue of the Journal American Art takes as its starting point Astrid, a work by Xavier Cortada. "The works were made in Antarctica, about Antarctica, using Antarctica as the medium (provided to me by the very researchers who inform us about Antarctica)." The Introduction goes on to open up a... Continue Reading →
Only Human? Thom Van Dooren on Vultures and on Snails
Last Sunday Thom Van Dooren spoke about extinction at the first Only Human? Festival in Glasgow, part of the nationwide Arts & Humanities Research Council Being Human Festival. Previous posts have highlighted key quotes from his book Flight Ways: Life and Loss at the Edge of Extinction. Thom very kindly agreed to us sharing recordings... Continue Reading →
Tim Morton – I’ve been kicked in the biosphere (more on extinction)
. More rock and roll, less evocative of the specifics of individual as well as species loss (slow violence, human exceptionalism, nature of hope), you should read Tim Morton's contribution to the EXTINCT.LY site which is also the home for documentation of the Serpentine's Extinction Marathon.
Only Human? and what of autonomy?
Thom Van Dooren quotes (p. 141) Val Plumwood saying, When we hyperseparate ourselves from nature and reduce it conceptually, we not only lose the ability to empathise and to see the non-human sphere in ethical terms, but also get a false sense of our own character and location that includes an illusory sense of agency... Continue Reading →
Land Art Generator Initiative
Hyperallergic recently covered the Copenhagen 2014 Land Art Generator Initiative competition saying, "There is no shortage of art critiquing humankind’s abuse of the earth today. While these works help illuminate the problem, they don’t actually solve it. But what if artists could use their know-how to engage in a practice that actually brings about real... Continue Reading →
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