#Occupy Effect
From the mild-mannered protest camp of self-styled “doccupiers” in Kassel to a radical attempt to turn the tables on curators and subvert the hierarchical structures of the biennial in Berlin, […]
Category Archives: Texts
Art and Ecology in Artecontexto
Special issue on issues of art and ecology in contemporary art in the Spanish art journal Artecontexto, including a feature article by Maja and Reuben Fowkes entited Reclaim Happiness: Art […]
Ecology and Ideology: In Search of an Antidote in Contemporary Art
VERGE no.1 (February 2010) Sustainability has become a buzzword of politics and commerce, and with its spread from the field of environmentalism into society there has been some dilution of […]
Going Nuclear at the RSA
The recent symposium on Art and Radioactivity at the Royal Society of Arts proved an exception to the many generalised discussions around art and ecology, by focusing on the specific […]
Sensuous Resistance: The Legacy of Modernism for Sustainable Art
This text probes some of the legacies of modernism for sustainable art practices, arguing for a re-evaluation of the notion of artistic autonomy as a path of resistance, and was […]
The Art of Making Do with Enough
This text originally appeared as a chapter in The New Art, a collection of essays on contemporary art published by Rachmaninoff’s London. Our account of the challenge of sustainability for […]
The Principles of Sustainability in Contemporary Art
This essay appeared in a special issue of Praesens: Central European Contemporary Art Review published to accompany the Symposium on Sustainability and Contemporary Art at CEU Budapest as well as […]
Art and Ecology: Unified or Fragmentary?
This review of the RSA’s first symposium on Ecology and Artistic Practice was published on Green Museum and provided a rare critical take on what would turn out to be […]
Nature in Contemporary Art
This essay was written for the exhibition Unframed Landscapes and deals with the position of nature in contemporary art. In addition to appearing in the exhibition catalogue, it has been […]
