#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, […]
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, […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]