Description
International in scope, this volume brings together leading and emerging voices working at the intersection of contemporary art, visual culture, activism, and climate change, and addresses key questions, such as: why and how do art and visual culture, and their ethics and values, matter with regard to a world increasingly shaped by climate breakdown?
Foregrounding a decolonial and climate-justice-based approach, this book joins efforts within the environmental humanities in seeking to widen considerations of climate change as it intersects with social, political, and cultural realms. It simultaneously expands the nascent branches of ecocritical art history and visual culture, and builds toward the advancement of a robust and critical interdisciplinarity appropriate to the complex entanglements of climate change.
This book will be of special interest to scholars and practitioners of contemporary art and visual culture, environmental studies, cultural geography, and political ecology.
Table of Contents
Part I Extractivism 1 Extracting the Cost: Re-membering the Discarded in African Landscapes 2 In the Frontiers of Amazonia: A Brief Political Archaeology of Global Climate Emergency 3 From Tuíra to the Amazon Fires: The Imagery and Imaginary of Extractivism in Brazil 4 Describing the Indescribable: Art and the Climate Crisis 5 Art of the Interregnum in Canada窶冱 Chemical Valley 6 Road to Injustice: Ecological Impunity and Resistance in West Papua Part II Climate Violence 7 Into the Heart of the Occupied Forest 8 The Coming War and the Impossible Art: Zapatista Creativity in a Context of Environmental Destruction and Internal Warfare 9 View from the Terracene 10 Waste You Can窶冲 Deny: A Slow Trans-aesthetic in The Blue Barrel Grove 11 The Perpetual Present, Past, and Future: Slow Violence and Chinese Frameworks of In/Visibility and Time in Zhao Liang窶冱 Behemoth 12 Remembering the Land: Art, Direct Action, and the Denial of Extractive Realities on Bougainville 13 Multispecies Cinema in Wretched Waters: The Slow Violence of the Rio Doce Disaster Part III Sensing Climates 14 Staying with the Troubling, Performing in the Impasse 15 A Conversation between Three Ecosexuals 16 Climate Justice, Satire, and Hothouse Earth 17 Indigenous Media: Dialogic Resistance to Climate Disruption 18 At Memory's Edge: Climate Trauma in the Arctic through Film 19 The Breathing Land: On Questions of Climate Change and Settler Colonialism Part IV In/Visibilities 20 Sensing Particulate Matter and Practicing Environmental Justice 21 Visualizing Atmospheric Politics 22 Atmospheres and the Anthropogenic Image-Bind 23 Ways of Saying: Rhetorical Strategies of Environmentalist Imaging 24 Sublime Aesthetics in the Era of Climate Crisis? A Critique 25 Inside Out: Creative Response Beyond Periphery and Peril 26 Capturing Nature: Eco-Justice in African Art Part V Multispecies Justice 27 Doing Difference Differently As Wetlands Disappear: (A California Story) 28 "With Applied Creativity, We Can Heal": Permaculture and Indigenous Futurism at Santa Clara Pueblo 29 Decolonizing the Seed Commons: Biocapitalism, Agroecology, and Visual Culture 30 The Politics and Ecology of Invasive Species: A Changing Climate for Pioneering Plants 31 Multispecies Futures through Art 32 Activist Abstraction: Anita Krajnc, Save Movement Photography, and the Climate of Industrial Meat 33 Alien Waters 34 Everything is Alive: Jason deCaires Taylor窶冱 Vicissitudes Part VI Ruptures/Insurgencies/Worldings 35 The Work of Life in the Age of Extinction: Notes Towards an Art of Aliveness 36 The Political Ecology and Visual Culture of the Pacific Climate Warriors 399 37 From Institutional to Interstitial Critique: The Resistant Force that is Liberating the Neoliberal Museum from Below 38 Beneath the Museum, the Spectre 39 Our House Is on Fire: Children, Youth, and the Visual Politics of Climate Change 40 From The Red Nation to The Red Deal
