Outdoor School : contemporary environmental art / edited by Amish Morrell and Diane Borsato.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Morrell, Amish, editor.

Borsato, Diane, editor.

Adam H. Fetterolf Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Human ecology in art.

Environment (Art).

Art and society.

Art, Modern--21st century.

Art, Modern.

Genre:

Art / Criticism & Theory.

Physical Description:

192 pages : color illustrations ; 27 cm

Place of Publication:

Madeira Park, BC : Douglas & McIntyre, [2021]

Summary:

"For more than a decade, the Outdoor School project has provided a framework for interdisciplinary artists to come together and share projects that reimagine ways of relating with the landscape. The experiential and community-based art projects described in Outdoor School present an alternative to scientific, commercial and colonial conceptions of land and nature in the face of climate change and mass extinction. These art practices include activities like mushroom foraging, water witching, trespassing, pumpkin-boat sailing, cloud identifying, ravine running, honey extracting, spell conjuring, rabbit hunting, coyote walking and more. The project calls attention to creative, counter-cultural works that are focused on education, community and place, and blur the boundaries between art and life, nature and culture. Featuring interviews, essays and over 150 photographs, Outdoor School is an important contribution to discussions of contemporary art and ecology, foregrounding work that is marginal and ephemeral by nature. Artists featured in Outdoor School include Alana Bartol, Diane Borsato, Bill Burns, Carolina Caycedo, Sameer Farooq, FASTWÜRMS, Ayumi Goto, Maggie Groat, Gabrielle Hill, Peter Morin, Public Studio, Helen Reed, Genevieve Robertson, Jamie Ross, Aislinn Thomas, Vibrant Matter, Jay White, Tania Willard, Terri-Lynn Williams-Davidson and D'Arcy Wilson."-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: We Always Begin with an Acknowledgement of the Land / Amish Morrell

The BUSH Manifesto / Jeneen Frei Njootli

What Can We Learn from Turtles? / FASTWURMS

The Goat Milking and The Great Chorus / Bill Burns

The Best Dancer Is Also a Farmer: A Conversation around Art, Life and Learning / Amish Morrell

Farm as Ethics / Karen Houle

Under the Freeway, a Forest: Some Notes on Trespassing / Jay White

Slow Walkers of Whycocomagh and Mountains Used to Be Ugly / Aislinn Thomas

Clouds, Bees, Gems and Apples: Museum Interventions of Diane Borsato / Diane Borsato

Twenty-Four Affections / Sameer Farooq

Un-camouflaging, Water-witching and Orphan Wells / Alana Bartol

Protect Your Love and #1 Fan / D'Arcy Wilson

The Rights of Nature / Terri-Lynn Williams-Davidson

Thinking through the River: A Conversation with Carolina Caycedo and Genevieve Robertson / Genevieve Robertson.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Adam H. Fetterolf Fund.

ISBN:

9781771622844

1771622849

OCLC:

1223536269

Publisher Number:

99989196269