Shakespeare’s Juliet as the Sun
Artists & Climate Change
by Joan Sullivan
1y ago
For this special post about energy transitions, I asked Chantal Bilodeau – playwright and founder of this blog – to join me in writing about another playwright: William Shakespeare, the prolific 16th century English Bard, poet and actor. What does an artist like Shakespeare – born 100 years before the Industrial Revolution – have to do with energy transitions? According to Shakespearean scholar Marianne Kimura, many of Shakespeare’s most famous plays – including Romeo and Juliet and King Lear – are filled with “hidden criticisms of fossil fuels” and should be considered climate fiction. For ex ..read more
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Representation Matters for Climate Justice
Artists & Climate Change
by artsandclimate
2y ago
This month I have for you something a little different. Rather than an interview, I have a transcript of a luminating panel that took place on March 22 this year. Co-presented by New York Women in Film & Television and the National Democratic Institute, this panel, called “Representation Matters for Climate Justice,” took place as part of the United Nations’ Commission on the Status of Women. It features remarkable women filmmakers and activists, including the award-winning documentary film producer Emily Wanja, two-time Emmy Award winner and Oscar nominated producer Ly ..read more
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Halcyon String Quartet & Climate Art Best Practices
Artists & Climate Change
by artsandclimate
2y ago
Regular listeners know I feature artists who are using their art to explore climate change. Today, I feature Sophie and Josies Davis, sisters who grew up on the coast of Maine. After studying classical violin at conservatory, they became two of the founding members of Halcyon String Quartet, seeking to fuse their love of music and the natural world with their growing concern about the climate crisis. In speaking with them, we identified six principles that artists might found helpful: Know your stuff: This means both your craft as an artist and essentials of climate change messaging. Thi ..read more
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The 2022 Artists & Climate Change Incubator
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by Chantal Bilodeau
2y ago
Monday, June 27 – Friday, July 1 10:00 am – 5:30 pm Anchorage, Alaska Fee: $850 USD Facilitators: Chantal Bilodeau & Julia Levine Calling all artists, activists, scientists, and educators who want to engage or further their engagement with climate change through artistic practices! After a two year hiatus due to the COVID-19 pandemic, join the Arts & Climate Initiative for the Artists & Climate Change Incubator, June 27-July 1, 2022 in Anchorage, Alaska. We can’t wait to gather in person and connect around our shared desire to harness the power of the arts to address ..read more
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Tamara Kostianovsky: Between Wounds and Folds at Smack Mellon
Artists & Climate Change
by artsandclimate
2y ago
Tamara Kostianovsky was born in Jerusalem, Israel in 1974, and grew up in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Between Wounds and Folds her Fall 2021 solo exhibition at Smack Mellon, featured sculptures linking gender-based violence, personal memory, and ecological destruction through consumption into a complex and speculative ecosystem. The dimensional forms, both soft and brutal, combined discarded fabric with industrial materials, often drawing their shape from mutilated fauna and flora in various states of decay, including tree stumps, cow carcasses, and birds of prey. Tell me a bit about th ..read more
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Wild Authors: Oghenechovwe Donald Ekpeki
Artists & Climate Change
by artsandclimate
2y ago
Oghenechovwe Donald Ekpeki is an African speculative fiction writer and editor in Nigeria. His Ife-Iyoku novella was a finalist in the Nebula, BSFA, Sturgeon awards, and won the Nommo and Otherwise awards. The Dominion anthology he co-edited, where it appears, won the British Fantasy award, and was a finalist in the Locus and This Is Horror awards. His climate fiction novelette O2 Arena is a BSFA and Nebula award finalist. He edited the first ever Year’s Best African Speculative Fiction anthology and the Bridging Worlds non-fiction antholo ..read more
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An Interview with Artist Maureen Drdak
Artists & Climate Change
by artsandclimate
2y ago
This month, I have for you an interview with Maureen Drdak, an artist whose recent exhibition is called Ardens Mundi, Latin for Burning Worlds. Drdak is also the recipient of the 2011 U.S. Fulbright Fellowship for Art in Nepal. Her work can be found in numerous public, private, and university collections within the US and abroad, among them the Berthe and John Ford Collection, Shelley and Donald Rubin Collection, Lynda and Stuart Resnick, and Emir Hamad Al Thani and Sheikha Mozah of Qatar. In the interview below we discuss how her latest exhibition “presents the many faces of gl ..read more
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Reading List #1: Arts, Culture & Energy Transitions
Artists & Climate Change
by Joan Sullivan
2y ago
Over the last year, I’ve written occasional posts about the cultural dimensions of energy transitions, past and present. We’ve seen how artists throughout the millennia – including William Shakespeare, Herman Melville, JMW Turner, and, more recently, Olafur Eliasson, Jessica Segall, and Marjan van Aubel and Pauline van Dongen – have contributed in a variety of ways, either directly or indirectly, to the energy transitions of their respective époques, by creating works that ultimately helped shift the cultural and aesthetic values associated with the incipient, “alternative” energy source. The ..read more
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The Ultimate Cli-Fi Book Club: ‘Stations Eleven’
Artists & Climate Change
by artsandclimate
2y ago
How can we help the public embrace the science that reveals our climate has changed? Krista Hiser is back with another installment of the Ultimate Cli-Fi Book Club. This time she looks at a book that hits very close to home. She dives into the pandemic and climate change in Emily St. John Mandel’s novel, Stations Eleven. Dr. Krista Hiser is Sustainability Curriculum Coordinator for the University of Hawaii Office of Sustainability, where she facilitates change management, interdisciplinary dialogue, and professional development opportunities for faculty to design, update, and transform courses ..read more
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Water Conversations, The Goddess Brigid, and Mayflies
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by susanhoffmanfishman
2y ago
Irish visual artist and researcher Anna MacCleod has spent the last 15 years exploring the environmental, economic, spiritual, political, and scientific aspects of water through interdisciplinary collaborations, performance, public interventions, and socially engaged activism.  Like most artists addressing water issues in their work, MacCleod can pinpoint the time when she first became focused on the topic. In 2007, she attended a workshop/residency in Carrick-on-Shannon, Ireland, led by Chilean-born artist and architect Alfred Jaar, for which she developed a sculptural pub ..read more
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