All Art is Ecological (Green Ideas)

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The book All Art is Ecological provides a provocative and entertaining, but no less concise and instructive study into the nature of the relationship between art and ecological awareness – from the perspective of one of the leading object-oriented ontologists of our time.

Each time a new artwork is added to any culture, the meaning of what it is to exist is inherently changed. As Heidegger scholar Hubert Dreyfus explained it: “The temple draws the people who act in its light to clarify, unify, and extend the reach of its style, but being a material thing, it resists rationalization. Combined these elaborations become the testing ground to examine whether contemporary media arts practice can contribute to the quest for such a poetics. CAP builds a network of partners and relations to develop complex projects on vulnerable territories.if you want to consider ecological thinking, bring ecology out of the shadows and make art of the data, don’t just talk about it. A problem of the scale of human-caused global warming defies simplistic thinking and dichotomization. His argument goes something like this: By turning the issue into a definitive yes or no (verbally voting: I believe or I don’t believe), we lose the actual experience of being in the uncanny. All rights in Antennae: The Jour- nal of Nature in Visual Culture and its contents reserved by their respective owners. As somebody only versed in Philosophy through the likes of Contrapoints and Philosophy Tube, this was a big jump.

Rochelle Gurstein, author of The Repeal of Reticence, and frequent contributor to The New Republic, Salmagundi, and American Scholar. What is essential to this experience, says Morton (brilliantly, I think), “boils down to ambiguity: how things can appear to be oscillating between familiar and strange. For more details, please consult the latest information provided by Royal Mail's International Incident Bulletin.I also find that this book intensely meshes with Morton’s former roots in romanticism- dabbling in the appreciation of art , 1700s science, intense lust and the landscape, ‘stains of time’ .

This notion is of particularly significance to the development of my argument, because it criticises the mere visual representation of the globe as sphere. In a 2021 Zoom conference titled The Garden and the Dump: Across More-than-Human Entanglements, climate philosopher Timothy Morton (they/them) gave a performative rant on the abomination of the American lawn. Starting with the Great Donna Haraway, these thinkers are not only telling us we need to stay with the trouble, but they are heralding a new age of interspecies democracy and solidarity with non-human people. Morton co-wrote and appears in Living in the Future’s Past, a 2018 film about global warming with Jeff Bridges. I found it quite hard to finish, Personally, I found it much harder to finish this booklet then, say, Mark Fisher or Franco Berardi (or even Sigmind Freud).hot on the heels of reading Jeff VanderMeer’s Borne books, with ants in pants, I awaited the arrival of this recent release to re-up my dosage: these are excerpts from his 2018 book “Being Ecological” which I highly recommend. Along with classics like Masanobu Fukuoka’s The Dragonfly Will Be the Messiah and Rachel Carson’s The Silent Spring; there is the work of many contemporary thinkers, such as Greta Thunberg’s No One is Too Small to Make a Difference, Amitav Ghosh’s Uncanny and Improbable Events, and George Monbiot’s This can’t be happening. Lyginant su kitom Mortono knygom čia jau atsiradę nemažai pamokymų ir patarimų, tokio pamoralizavimo ekologinės gyvensenos klausimais. For sheer elegance, wit and worldly wisdom when it comes to reading, editing, presenting the real news of the world. Nomad Landscape is an installation made of plants, soil, metal sculpture and tapestries, realized for the exhibition Future Landscapes.

Morton tears apart the ideologies of modern environmentalism in the climate crisis, adamant on a wider lens of ecology and the meaning of ‘nature’- almost akin to Jane Bennett. I found myself enthralled by his ecological thinking - incorporating the uncanny, strangeness, co-existence, poetry, the subjunctive mood - the kind of thinking and writing that seems to well articulate things you might feel and sense flickering in the shadows. Some interesting ideas which challenge the main stream thinking on 'climate change' (one of which is that we should stop using this term, for good reasons).During the last decade (2005-2015), artists from all over the world have taken on climate change as the subject matter of their work. His conceptual imagery is characterized by the presence of natural elements, such as rocks and minerals.