Art As Ecology Summer 2008
RESOURCES
READINGS BY WEEK
Please read for the first class:
Mapping the Terrain of Contemporary EcoART Practice and Collaboration (pdf)
Week 1
LEAD paper on Clayoquot Sound (link)
Reciprocity, David Abram in Tikkun (pdf)
Week 2
No assigned reading - please reflect on the Clayoquot experiences and prepare to discuss these, as well as your project ideas, next class.
Week 3
The Thriving of Wild Salmon Simon Lucas (pdf)
Ingold, Tim. (2000) Chapter one “Culture, Nature and Environment” in The Perception of the Environment
Gablik, Suzi (1991) Chapter 2 “The Post-Avant-guard” in The Re-enchantment of Art
Topophilia: Research as the Genesis of Love for the Environment, Eve Andree Laramee (pdf - very short!)
Week 4
Gablik, Suzi (1991) Chapter 5 “Deconstructing Aesthetics” in The Re-enchantment of Art
Hillman, James (….) “The Practice of Beauty” in Uncontrollable Beauty
Week 5
NO ASSIGNED READINGS - FINAL CLASS ... HOWEVER, I strongly reccommend, for those who have not read it, Alternative Aesthetics, Suzi Gablik in LANDVIEWS online journal (link)
(FYI - This RESOURCES page will remain posted for a few months)
Clayoquot Field Station & Tofino Botanical Gardens
UNESCO Man in the Biosphere Project
Eating the Salmon of Wisdom (pdf)
The Ecology of Magic - an interview with David Abram (pdf)
Through the Eye of the Heart: in search of a "deep aesthetics" Beth Carruthers (pdf)
On Ecology As Aesthetic Experience Wendy Lynne Lee (pdf)
Knowing (Aesthetically) Where I Am (pdf)
Beyond Conflict in Clayoquot Sound: the future of sustainable forestry (pdf)
MIRIAD Lecture - 2nd section Beth Carruthers (pdf)
Rite Action: Ritual as Subversive Protest in the Uts’am/Witness Project, Beth Carruthers (pdf)
ARTISTS, ORGANISATIONS & PROJECTS
by no means exhaustive - see Green Museum
Subhankar Banergee (photography - Oil & the Caribou, etc)
Xavier Cortada (Reclamation Project)
Exit Art Gallery and Creative Space, New York: S.E.A.
RANE (research in Art, Nature & Environment)
Centre for Contemporary Art and the Natural World
Praxis: Acting as if Everything Matters Beth Carruthers (pdf)
The Parish Maps of Common Ground
IO Online Journal - Art and Environment issue
Rooted Art?: Environmental Art and our Attachment to Nature, Emily Brady IO online journal
Two Lines of Siight and an Unexpected Connection Arlene Raven on the works Helen Meyer and Newton Harrison
Soundwalking, Hildegard Westerkamp
Local Distinctiveness, Sue Clifford (Common Ground)
The Mystery, the Evidence and the Small Atonements, Lynne Hull in LANDVIEWS
R. Murray Schafer's And Wolf Shall Inherit the Moon: The nexus of ideal and real wilderness Ellen Waterman in Journal of Canadian Studies
Conversational Drift: Helen Mayer Harrison and Newton Harrison in Art Journal
Penninsula Europe (The Harrisons)
What Ever Happened To Land Art? Oliver Lowenstein in Art Review (London - pdf)
Climate Change - an Aesthetic Crisis? , Alan Boldon, Leader of the MA in Arts & Ecology, Dartington Arts, UK (link)
Species Nova: to see anew, David Haley in Ethics & the Environment (pdf)
The Artist on Process & Ethics, Ada Medina in Ethics & the Environment
Brightwater Plan, Buster Simpson et al (link to page for pdf file)