Sensing Earth : cultural quests across a heated globe / Philipp Dietachmair, Pascal Gielen, Georgia Nicolau, eds. ; contributors, Grégory Castéra [and 15 others].

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Dietachmair, Philipp, 1973- editor.

Gielen, Pascal, editor.

Nicolau, Georgia, editor.

Castéra, Grégory, 1981- contributor.

Series:

Antennae series ; no. 31.

Antennae-arts in society ; no. 31

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Climatic changes in art.

Environment (Art).

Physical Description:

289 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm.

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam : Valiz, 2023.

Summary:

"Technology and science alone are not enough to save our planet. Environmental solutions need to firstly be found in politics, culture, and aesthetics. Humanity faces an escalation of ecological catastrophes, with no quick solutions in sight. We seem to be trapped in a spiral of health issues, sensory overload, social tensions and power struggles. In the face of these multiple crises, artists offer ways to articulate the ongoing emergencies and explore possibilities of affirming life while also understanding that their travels are part of the problem. Acknowledging that there are different ways of being an artist and that these crises are experienced differently depending on where you come from, Sensing Earth presents essays, interviews, poetry, manifestos, choreographic prompts, speculative fiction and case studies that operate at the intersection of art and environmental activism, culture and nature. What sensorial foundations are necessary to address today's systemic failures, and what new cultural routes could keep us moving on this planet, physically, emotionally, intellectually and ecologically?" -- Back cover

Contents:

Introduction / Georgia Nicolau, Pascal Gielen, Philipp Dietachmir

Reset our senses. The global burnout : overheated cultures in super cool flatscapes / Pascal Gielen

Of attentional environments (the pearl necklace) / Grégory Castéra

I am a tree : a reboot to the notion of culture-nature / Naine Terena de Jesus

Slow it down. Routes and rootedness : revalorizing cultural mobilities / Noel B. Salazar

Slow mobility / Ana Žuvela, Dea Vidović

Watching grass grow " forms of care & cultivation / INLAND, Fernando García-Dory

Dance away the crisis. Choreographing the crisis : enchantments, refuges, and impossible (re)positionings / Marina Guzzo

To have eyes in the back / Georgia Nicolau in conversation with Luciane Ramos Silva

Cosmological gardens / Center for Arts, Design, and Social Research, Dalida María Benfield, Christopher Bratton, Luigi Coppola, Pelin Tan

The chestnut, the sea urchin & the tuning of the bells / Futurefarmers

To feel it again. Ancestors are the future / Meander

[the spell smell of consent] / Joy Mariama Smith

Epilogue : the end of history and the last human / André Wilkens.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9789493246249

9493246248

OCLC:

1378094686