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Art and Creativity in an Era of Ecocide Anna Pigott (Swansea University, UK)

Art and Creativity in an Era of Ecocide By Anna Pigott (Swansea University, UK)

Art and Creativity in an Era of Ecocide by Anna Pigott (Swansea University, UK)


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Art and Creativity in an Era of Ecocide: Embodiment, Performance and Practice by Anna Pigott (Swansea University, UK)

What can creativity achieve in an era of ecocide? How are people using creative and artistic practices to engage with (and resist) the destruction of life on earth? What are the relationships between creativity and repair in the face of escalating global environmental crises? Across twelve compelling case studies, this book charts the emergence of diverse forms of artistic practice and brings together accounts of how artists, scholars and activists are creatively responding to environmental destruction. Highlighting alternative approaches to creativity in both conventional art settings and daily life, the book demonstrates the major influence that ecological thought has had on contemporary creative practices. These are often more concerned with subtle processes of feeling, experience and embodiment than they are with charismatic 'eco-art' works. In doing so, this exploratory book develops a conception of creativity as an anti-ecocide endeavour, and provides timely theoretical and practical insights on art in an age of environmental destruction.

Art and Creativity in an Era of Ecocide Reviews

This book address some of the most urgent ecological issues of our time from a wide range of creative perspectives. As such, it offers readers a variety of valuable prompts to alternative and much needed ways of thinking and acting. * Iain Biggs, Visiting Research Fellow, Environmental Humanities Research Centre, Bath Spa University, UK *
'A real gem which can immediately be taken to the classroom and into one's own writing. The myriad disciplinary voices work exceptionally well here, all trying to look through and beyond ecocidal gloom, violence and mourning towards something more attentive, feeling and radically grounded. It adds something urgent yet subtle to the scholarship.' * Andrew Patrizio, Professor of Scottish Visual Culture, University of Edinburgh, UK, and author of The Ecological Eye: Assembling an Ecocritical Art History (2018) *

About Anna Pigott (Swansea University, UK)

Anna Pigott is Lecturer in Human Geography at Swansea University, UK. Working in the field of Environmental Humanities, she is particularly interested in the impact of art and storytelling on our responses to environmental, social and economic crises. Owain Jones is Emeritus Professor of Environmental Humanities at Bath Spa University, UK. He has published over eighty scholarly articles and edited four books including Visual Culture in the Northern British Archipelago (2017). Ben Parry is Senior Lecturer and Course Leader of the MA in Curatorial Practice at Bath School of Art, Bath Spa University, UK. He is co-editor of Waste Work: The art of Survival in Dharavi (2023)and works as an artist, curator and independent researcher at the intersections of art, activism and urban space.

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations 1. Introduction, Anna Pigott, Owain Jones, and Ben Parry 2. A conversation through listening to everyday walks, Michelle Duffy 3. Bangalore's Water Crisis: Creative Methodologies for Eco-activism, Laura Denning 4. Curatorial strategies of community dialogue through eco-art protest and narratives of care, Patricia Brien 5. Learning from a participatory project in the Tropenmuseum: workings of a Buddha's head in an era of ecocide, Sara Guagnini 6. Re-writing the machinic anthropocene: Using fictional methods within art practice to expose and rethink the materialities of digital technologies, Charlie Tweed 7. Reflective imagination via the artistic experience and its role in behavioral adaptation in an era of ecocide, Alexandra Wah 8. Willow, weaving, worlding, Anna Pigott 9. Deep materialism and care-taking: A study of material relationships for the 21st Century in an era of ecocide, Alison Harper and Sarah Chave 10. Tuning in: Walking, slowing, sensing, Lydia Halcrow 11. Zone to Defend: The liberated territory against the airport and its world, Ben Parry 12. Ancient boglands and the national peat-fuel industry: art, resistance and complicity, Tim Collins and Reiko Goto 13. Reflections, Anna Pigott, Owain Jones, and Ben Parry Index

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NPB9781350237223
9781350237223
1350237221
Art and Creativity in an Era of Ecocide: Embodiment, Performance and Practice by Anna Pigott (Swansea University, UK)
New
Hardback
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
2023-10-19
280
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