Territorial Art, Design & Architecture
(2022)
author(s): Sergio Montero Bravo
connected to: Konstfack - University of Arts, Crafts and Design
published in: VIS - Nordic Journal for Artistic Research
This collaborative and cross-sectoral project addresses places, environments and spaces beyond mere functional urban endeavors. The project explores possibilities that become visible when public space is viewed from perspectives beyond the urban norm. The aim is to restore lost rural relations and to search for ways to leave the anthropocentric narrative. In the past, densification of cities has been considered synonymous with sustainable development, creativity and innovation. However, a one-sided urban focus leads to disarmament of rural habitats, and dissociation from human interdependence with non-human nature. Today, adaptation to global warming is dependent on the survival of the rural. Therefore, this artistic research project is primarily informed by activities in rural environments together with species and ecologies other than human and urban. The goal is to investigate how art, design and architectural interventions can foster oppositional narratives to anthropocentricity. What I present in this exposition are my most recent collaborations and a journey of professional metamorphosis to reach this goal. The result is a series of ongoing projects and processes that demonstrate how I explore places of communality, togetherness and mutual beneficial interdependency between species.
Ghost Nature
(2015)
author(s): Caroline Picard
published in: Journal for Artistic Research
The predominant cultural tradition prioritises humankind and human culture above all other life forms – a linear, anthropocentric narrative wherein the human appears as the latest, most developed draft of life in a grand opera of consciousness; the opera begins with the origin of a universe that has since continued until now, forward from the darkest beginning of A to an elusive horizon of B: that spot in the distance that shall never be reached. The following exposition reflects notes, quotations, and autobiographical incidents that muddle this mythology. This assemblage of sources composes a constellation without beginning, centre, or end in an effort to enact a more general and omniscient intellectual environment that highlights the longstanding hierarchical expectations inherent in the Western world.
Textile Awareness
(last edited: 2024)
author(s): HANNA felting
This exposition is in progress and its share status is: visible to all.
To create positive Textile Awareness I will be researching the relationship and interaction of consumers with clothing and textiles.
With the intention to encourage people to recycle clothing and shop less.
Inspire people to think critically about their purchases and create awareness about the consequences of clothing choices for the environment.
I want to make a joint impact so that clothing and textiles are no longer treated as waste products. More than half of old textiles in the Netherlands are not recycled but thrown out with the garbage. And thus into the incinerator.
Global warming is perhaps the greatest challenge of our time. What can the consumer change in his behavior towards clothing and textiles? That is the question that concerns me.
The Colors of the Leaves of Maine
(last edited: 2020)
author(s): RUUKKU Voices: Patricia Tewes
This exposition is in progress and its share status is: visible to all.
This work concerns the colors of the state of Maine where I reside part of the year. The climate of Maine is similar to southern Finland. The colors of Maine are the deep blue-green conifers covering the mountains, the clear ultramarine of the sky and the even darker ocean, the reds, oranges, and grays of the rocks, the almost day-glo green of the lichens on dark trees shining on a rainy night, and the transparent whitish gray of the fog. I have asked myself the question, if the temperature warms, no, when the temperature warms, how will this change? The vegetation will change, the forests in the far north of Maine will change from blue-green conifers to mixed forests, and the mixed forests in most of the state will become warm broadleaf forests. Forests in Maine will look more like New Jersey or Delaware, a yellow-green vs the blue green of our pines. Many of the lichens will not survive. The sea level will rise, and some of coastal Maine will be flooded. We will see migration of both plants and animals, including humans, northward as the climate shifts. It’s already starting to happen.
In my work, I use these plants to assist my human hand. The human-plant interaction in the work reflects human-plant interaction in the world. My background as a medical doctor led to my interest in the concept of plants as medicine for the mind and body. I print and paint in multiple layers on canvas or panels mixing these found plant materials, collage, and human-made marks. I am fascinated by the unique marks that can be made with these organic materials. The fact that small elements of plant matter are incorporated into my paintings adds to this fascination. I reflect on the changing colors of these plant materials as the climate warms. I try to reflect that in my work, relying on the work of scientist who create mathematical models of climate change to speculate how the colors in a place might change. My current work is a series of paintings that uses these models to show in the leaves themselves how the colors might change. The place chosen is Acadia National Park in Maine. The plan for the work is to translate this model of the leaf to other places under threat of change due to climate warming. How will the colors and vegetation change in these places as the temperature warms? In using plants in my paintings I hope to create a link between the human viewer and the plant.
Perhaps my use of plants in mark-making can help us gain a deeper understanding of our relationships to the natural world and our commonality of DNA in a world in which we are increasingly in opposition to nature.
The predominant cultural tradition prioritises humankind and human culture above all other life forms – a linear, anthropocentric narrative wherein the human appears as the latest, most developed draft of life in a grand opera of consciousness; the opera begins with the origin of a universe that has since continued until now, forward from the darkest beginning of A to an elusive horizon of B: that spot in the distance that shall never be reached. The following exposition reflects notes, quotations, and autobiographical incidents that muddle this mythology. This assemblage of sources composes a constellation without beginning, centre, or end in an effort to enact a more general and omniscient intellectual environment that highlights the longstanding hierarchical expectations inherent in the Western world.open exposition comments (0)
To create positive Textile Awareness I will be researching the relationship and interaction of consumers with clothing and textiles. With the intention to encourage people to recycle clothing and shop less. Inspire people to think critically about their purchases and create awareness about the consequences of clothing choices for the environment. I want to make a joint impact so that clothing and textiles are no longer treated as waste products. More than half of old textiles in the Netherlands are not recycled but thrown out with the garbage. And thus into the incinerator. Global warming is perhaps the greatest challenge of our time. What can the consumer change in his behavior towards clothing and textiles? That is the question that concerns me.open exposition comments (0)