What's Next? (eBook)

Eco Materialism and Contemporary Art

Linda Weintraub (Autor)

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2019
Intellect Books (Verlag)
978-1-78320-941-5 (ISBN)

Infos

By paying tribute to matter, materiality and materialisation, the examples of contemporary art assembled in What’s Next? Eco Materialism and Contemporary Art challenge the social, cultural and ethical norms that prevailed in the twentieth century. This significant frontier of contemporary culture is identified as Eco Materialism because it affirms the emergent philosophy of Neo Materialism and attends to the pragmatic urgency of environmentalism.   

 

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By paying tribute to matter, materiality and materialisation, the examples of contemporary art assembled in What's Next? Eco Materialism and Contemporary Art challenge the social, cultural and ethical norms that prevailed in the twentieth century. This significant frontier of contemporary culture is identified as Eco Materialism because it affirms the emergent philosophy of Neo Materialism and attends to the pragmatic urgency of environmentalism. In this highly original book, Linda Weintraub surveys the work of 40 international artists who present materiality as a strategy to convert society s environmental neglect into responsible stewardship. These bold art initiatives, enriched by their associations with philosophy, ecology and cultural critique, bear the hallmark of a significant new art movement. This accessible text, written for students and a wider readership, is augmented with interactive opportunities that actuate eco material attitudes and behaviours. They invite readers to engage in this timely arena of contemporary art. Printed in high quality black and white throughout, colour reproductions of the artworks discussed are available to view through the author's website.

Autor

lt;p>Linda Weintraub is a curator, educator, artist, and author of several popular books about contemporary art. She has earned her reputation by making the outposts of vanguard art accessible to broad audiences. Weintraub’s books exploring contemporary art and ecology include What’s Next? Eco Materialism & Contemporary Art (2018), To LIFE! Eco Art in Pursuit of a Sustainable Planet (2012), and Avant-Guardians (2007), a series of textlets that include EcoCentric Topics: Pioneering Themes for Eco-Art; Cycle-Logical Art: Recycling Matters for Eco-Art; EnvironMentalities: Twenty-two Approaches to Eco-Art. Weintraub applies environmental concerns to her personal life by managing a sustainable homestead where she practices permaculture. She is also the author of In the Making: Creative Options for Contemporary Artistsand Art on the Edge and Over: Searching for Art’s Meaning in Contemporary Society. She served as the director of the Edith C. Blum Art Institute located on the Bard College campus where she toured many of the fifty exhibitions she curated, and published over twenty catalogues. Weintraub was the Henry Luce Professor of Emerging Arts at Oberlin College; and currently teaches in the Nomad9 MFA program at the University of Hartford.

Inhalt

PREFACE: How Materiality Shaped This Book

INTRODUCTION: Where to Begin?

ECO MATERIAL ALLURES & REPULSIONS

Fingernails – Tim Hawkinson

Blood –  Marc Quinn

Placentas – Gu Wenda

Sweat Caitlin – Pautler Albritton

Tears – Rose-Lynn Fisher

Ear Wax – Amanda Cotton

Breast Milk – Jess Dobkin

Fat – Sun Yuan and Peng Yu

Spit – Spurse

Hair – Germaine Koh

Feces – Terence Koh

Corpse – Maurizio Montalti

Reader Interaction



ARCHETYPES OF MATERIAL USE & DISUSE

Pet Archetype – Amy M. Youngs

Sacred Archetype – Walter De Maria

Hazard Archetype – Hilda Hellström

Specimen Archetype – Alexandra Regan Toland

Resource Archetype – Jon Cohrs

Aesthetic Archetype –  Laura Parker

Merchandise Archetype – Joe Scanlan

Reader Interaction



ECO MATERIAL OPERATIVES

Do-It-Without-People –  James Bridle

Do-It-Yourself – Thomas Thwaites

Do-It-As-Community – Mary Mattingly

Do-It-As-Troop – Francis Alÿs

Do-It-With-Site – Rachael Mellors

Reader Interaction



ECO MATERIAL TOOLS

Fire Burns – Bruce Davies

Fire Melts Metals – Futurefarmers

Fire Sinters – Markus Kayser

Fire Cooks – Spurse

Reader Interaction



ECO MATERIAL CREATIVITY

Water Condenses –  Simparch

Water Dissolves – Dove Bradshaw

Water Forms Freshwater – Biomes Pierre Huyghe

Water Provides Marine Habitats – Jason deCaires Taylor

Water Inspires Reverence – Red Earth

Reader Interaction



ECO MATERIAL TECHNOLOGY

E-Energy Consumption – Gebhard Sengmüller

E-Omnipresence – Germaine Koh

E-Waste – Raphael Perret

E-Systems – SEAD/Angelo Vermeulen

E-Memory – Alice Anderson

E-Prayer – Kal Spelletich

Reader Interaction



WHAT’S NEXT?

Option 1: Desperation Chim↑Pom

Option 2: Relocation Zbigniew Oksiuta

Option 3: Recuperation Natalie Jeremijenko

Reader Interaction

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 15.2.2019
• Zusatzinfo: 100
• Verlagsort: Bristol
• Sprache: englisch
• Maße: 170 x 170 mm
• Themenwelt: Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Allgemeines / Lexika
• Themenwelt: Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Kunstgeschichte / Kunststile
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie
• Schlagworte: contemporary Art • Culture • Ecology • Eco Materialism • Emergent Philosophy • Environmentalism • ethics • Materiality • matter • Neo-Materialism • New Materialism • Philosophy • Society • Stewardship • Twentieth century
• ISBN-10: 1-78320-941-0 / 1783209410
• ISBN-13: 978-1-78320-941-5 / 9781783209415