reader art & ecology

home based style of attention

Zhong Mengual

to see/experience nature as cohabitants (niet de ‘verre natuur’)

Environmental art History

Zhong Mengual

Art history through ecological pov

different from western art history where nature primarily viewed as background

eco criticism

Braddock

focus/study of neglected environmental implications of art- everything is worthy of consideration

Romantic dilemma

Braddock

nature versus civilization

admiration for nature - but also trying to gain power over it

see work by Thomas Cole

nature on a pedestal

Braddock

to look at nature from afar

→ prevents real ecological understanding

Art history transnationally

Braddock

focus on global connectivity and cultural diffusion

global warming doesn’t stay inside national borders

object oriented ontology

braddock

object has a unified and autonomous life apart from relations etc

objects at the centre of being

objects exist for themselves, regardless of their usefulness or relation to human

→ to accept that object have their own autonomous life

(world constructed by art as only having significance for human being, not for other species or things themselves)

Plantationcene

Eshun

critic on Anthropocene

importance of colonialism & slavery in climate crisis

Sustainability

Demos

problematic; ensures green washing/ green captilasim

greenwashing

demos

using rhetoric/discourse like ‘green’ or ‘sustainable’ to conceal harm to ecosystem and gain economical profit

Anthropocentrism

Plumwood

humans= centre

→ ensures seperation/dualism nature versus humans

grounded in rationalism

Enlightened self interest

Plumwood

wrong motivation for climate activism/change

focus on own benefits

Illusion of disembeddedness

Plumwood

belief that humans are independent of nature/biosphere

instrumentalism

Plumwood

The Other that exists only to serve the needs of the One

the other is lacking any independent value or agency

homogenisation

plumwood

denying diversity & complexity (of nature)

ecocide

Van Gelder

international crime that should be integrated

acts committed with knowledge that there could be long term damage to the environment as a result to those acts

when nature (and its destruction by consequence) is used as weapon

grounded normativity

Simpson

the framework in which indigenous people form their values

not only values based on human relations but also the world; nature; animals

animal turn

Ullrich

art institution should become lab rotaries or playgrounds with multispecies and multi perspectives

challenging the hierarchy between human and non-human

make the art world less anthropocentric

praxis in eco-exhibition

Recinto

the process by which a theory, lesson, or idea is translated into action, embodied, and actively applied in the real world

aesthetics of the anthropocene

Demos

depicting the destruction beautifully=> feeling that destruction right

petro industrial sublime

Demos

visual power of the oil-economy as beautiful

looks like the oil extraction is something natural or inevitable

non human turn

Szwast

challenges the supposed uniqueness and superiority of human life

fossil capitalism

Levin & Ruelfs

the rise of an economy dependent on the large-scale burning of fossil fuels

Engine of visualization

Levin & Ruelfs

photography as a technological machine that has fundamentally changed our environment, much like the steam engine

This dying goat is a school

Verbesselt

represents the idea that the process of death when witnessed directly within an Indigenous cultural framework is a profound source of knowledge and ethical reflection

Fossilized Sunshine

Levin & Ruelf

Just as coal and oil are stored solar energy from ancient plants, a camera works by capturing and "freezing" light into a permanent image

Olie, gas en steenkool zijn ontstaan uit planten die miljoenen jaren geleden leefden. Planten werken via fotosynthes

Een camera werkt door licht vast te leggen

guest species

fowkes

refers to beneficial non-native species that are welcomed into an ecosystem

race specific plants

fowkes

refers to a concept from Nazi-era horticultural and botanical ideology that linked specific plant varieties to national and racial identity

language of the landscape

Eshun

a way for artists and writers to re-establish the link between displaced people and nature

survivance

Eshun

investing indigenous life and identity with a sense of possibility and futurity

racial process of climate change

Eshun

focus on climate change that affects white nations, instead of black/brown communities

Example: focus on ice melting in the north instead of what happens in Africa

stacked landscape

Eshun

viewing a site as a place of built up/accumulating history where one can be in "more than one place simultaneously," connecting contemporary scenes to historical violence or indigenous land-use technique