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Aphra Shemza - Current Climate, 2019 - Courtesy of Art in Flux
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Ben Eaton - Invisible Flock, 2010 - Courtesy of Art in Flux
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Sarah Craske - The Disease Map, 2021 - Courtesy of Art in Flux
Talk
Art in Flux: Radical Ecology - Media Art and the Environment
23 Nov 2021
Regular hours
- Tue, 23 Nov
- 18:30 – 19:45
Timezone: Europe/London
- Language: English
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Radical Ecology, curated by Aphra Shemza, in collaboration with National Gallery X invites Ben Eaton, Sarah Craske and Frances Disley to explore climate change, ecology, sustainable practice and conservation within relation to their work.
About
“Right now we are facing a man-made disaster of global scale, our greatest threat in thousands of years: climate change. If we don't take action, the collapse of our civilization and the extinction of much of the natural world is on the horizon.”Sir David Attenborough, A Life on Our Planet, 2020.
In the aftermath of the COP26 climate summit and the global demonstrations that call for immediate action to prevent catastrophic global warming, Radical Ecology looks to art as a forum where future possibilities can be imagined and provides a discursive setting to explore these subjects in a media art context.
If we think of art as a tool with which artists are able to raise questions about our human existence, the lives we lead and the society we inhabit, then media artists are right at the forefront of this discourse. They work with technology and innovation, looking towards the future and are forced into a dialogue with our throw-away consumer culture as part of their process.
Using the National Gallery’s collection as a starting point, we will investigate the environment and landscape as a source of artistic inspiration and contemplation. Radical Ecology invites Ben Eaton, Sarah Craske and Frances Disley to explore climate change, ecology, sustainable practice and conservation within relation to their work.
