Climate crisis

De temperatuur op de Noordpool was nog nooit zo hoog als afgelopen zomer. Ieder jaar worden de bosbranden groter, het orkaanseizoen heftiger en de weilanden in Oost-Nederland droger. Wetenschappers waarschuwen dat een ineenstorting van onze beschaving nabij is, maar in hoeverre kun je van een beschaving spreken als we niet…

In deze bijdrage licht Barbara Collé het visuele onderwerp kleur uit en verbeeldt daarmee de mogelijkheid van een andere relatie met onze omgeving. Het belicht traditionele kennis, de westerse scheiding tussen subject en object en de rol van ervaring in onze relatie met de natuur en de aarde.

This essay is part of the LAND: on climate, ownership and coexistence program. For the next six months, ArtEZ studium generale will be collaborating with online art magazine Mister Motley and will be talking to artists and thinkers about climate degradation, property, territory and colonialism, based on the subject of…

This paper considers a hybrid approach to making fashion by looking at the creation of Reu Jacket, ‘a zero-waste responsive garment’ that drew inspiration from lichen as a model for adaptive resilience. The approach to designing the garment established an experimental, practice-based space to explore the undecided and emergent. In prototyping this approach, the work speculated on the value of growth through reconfiguration.

Lietje Bauwens schrijft in haar essay over het moeras. Het moeras wordt vaak geromantiseerd als uitgestorven natuurfenomeen. In het licht van historische droogleggingpraktijken in Amerika, plaatst Lietje Bauwens hier kritische vraagtekens bij. Ze grijpt daarentegen (de metafoor van) het moeras aan voor een kritische blik op onderdrukkingsmechanismen in steden als Brussel en Amsterdam, die tenslotte gebouwd zijn op moeras. Aan de hand van verschillende artistieke projecten over het moeras, analyseert Lietje hoe drassige bodemgronden nog altijd doorleven in onze sociale realiteit.

Een essay van schrijver Fiep van Bodegom over het begrip eigenaarschap in relatie tot land.

‘Limits of the Self’ is a poetic exploration of our senses, written from the personal point-of-view of a scenographer. The text is part of Into Territories Unknown, a cahier exploring artistic research, written by Gaia’s Machine, a performance collective the author is part of. The cahier compiles their practices of interdependency and staging ecological spectatorship—a performative way of being-with the world, and a worldly way of being-with an artwork.

How to make visible the imperceptible? In particular, how to make visible the imperceptible language of the non-human within different environments? ‘Fluid Syntaxis’ is an exploration of a language beyond words, following the interaction between thought, physical investigation, artistic intuition, and dynamic reflection. It is shaped not only in text but in print, paper studies, and film.

How do we make sense of climate breakdown? What are the effects of imagining and naming how we live amid the uncertainties, upheavals, and pain caused by climate breakdown? How is it defined, and by whom? This year ArtEZ studium generale published two literary explorations in response to the film…

How do we make sense of climate breakdown? What are the effects of imagining and naming how we live amid the uncertainties, upheavals, and pain caused by climate breakdown? How is it defined, and by whom? This year ArtEZ studium generale published two literary explorations in response to the film…

Using oral storytelling and sound, a narrative sets the coordinates of a game-world, navigating the contradictions in the interrelations of ‘nature’ and ‘technology.’ It employs the ultrasonic spectrum used in wildlife telemetry as a mythopoeic time and space, wherein the human hearing range and a shapeshifting being are the centre of the work.

00:21:16:32 is a personal intervention on the means of deceit that employ the human to accept a self-manageable and accountable relationship with their privacy. Signing away our rights to our ‘self’ on a daily basis has become a small price to pay to exist in modern society.

‘Blood Processing' focuses on the industrial slaughterhouse as a case study for the bigger phenomenon of anthropocentrism. Systems and constructions such as an extreme focus on hygiene regulations inside the slaughterhouse are used to keep the animal as Other as possible. To challenge this, ‘Blood Processing' reimagines the industrial slaughterhouse from the perspective of the blood present in this space. Through this blood, a new narrative is created that challenges binary thinking.

Framed by the metaphor of a road trip, ‘Co-authoring the Future’ explores the use of participatory performance in building cultural discourse about decision-making during the climate crisis. An audio narration accompanies the written work, attempting to explore the theories discussed in the form of a correspondence between the author and her elusive self-awareness.

In November 2019, the editorial advisory board of the APRIA platform at ArtEZ University of the Arts, Arnhem, sent an open call entitled ‘Staying with the Trouble: How to Tell Stories in the Time of Ecological Crisis?’to the ArtEZ community and beyond. ´Staying with the Trouble´ refers to a Donna…