Full Description
Addressing one of the urgent issues of climate crisis and environmental pollution, this book explores our relationship to the sea: how we live alongside it, our bodily relationship to it, its role in the creation of a connected, global society and, perhaps most critically, the threat we pose to it.
Through a broad selection of works by contemporary international artists, Can the Seas Survive Us? responds to the urgent need to resuscitate our seas. While the oceanic environment is essential to all life, its vulnerability to human action is highlighted by an ever-increasing loss of biodiversity. This book prompts the reader to imagine a future in which collective human behaviour can mitigate the effects of climate change. As ocean temperatures reach record highs, it is clear that time is not on our side. This ambitious project aspires to accelerate climate awareness and deliver the critical climate action we urgently need.
Contents
0.1. Foreword, Jago Cooper, Executive Director, Sainsbury Centre
0.2. Introduction, John Kenneth Paranada, Curator of Art and Climate Change, Sainsbury Centre
1. Where to Draw the Line? Changing Charts and Charting Change, Djoeke van Netten, Associate Professor of Early Modern History, University of Amsterdam
2. Sounding the Unknown: Waters and global change, Soren Brothers, Allan and Helaine Shiff, Curator of Climate Change, Royal Ontario Museum
3. Sands of Time: Norfolk Coasts and Coastal Erosions, Andrew Watkinson, Emeritus Professor of Environmental Sciences, University of East Anglia
4. The Image of Eternity: Deep time and human vulnerability in representations of the seas and oceans, Courtney Traub, Journalist, writer and editor
5. Tipping Point, Antonia Blocker, Senior Curator, Zabludowicz Collection
6. A Sea of Resilience: Oceanic (in)visibility, Karen Jacobs, Associate Professor, Sainsbury Research Unit, University of East Anglia
7. Yuki Kihara in conversation with Tania Moore, Tania Moore, Head of Exhibitions, Sainsbury Centre
8. Poem (title TBC), Evan Ifekoya, Artist
9. Sea Inside, Sarah Wade and Pandora Syperek, Lecturer, University of East Anglia and Lecturer, University of Leicester
10. Sea Shanties (title TBC), Harun Morison, Artist
11. Estuarine, Patrick Flores, Professor of Art Studies, University of the Philippines
Acknowledgements
Author biographies
Photographic credits
Index
