Environmentalism

Embracing simultaneity between traditional lineages and contemporary media.

A video work attempts to document a silent dance.

Art addressing war and inequality in Colombia and elsewhere.

Capitalism is fundamentally unsustainable. In the spring of 2020, the world began experiencing this fact more acutely than ever, as humankind struggled to control the COVID-19 pandemic.

An artist updates the traditions of pastoral painting.

Anja skidded down the slope, which was becoming muddy from overuse by feet. It still hadn’t been paved or even scattered with gravel, since Finster didn’t want to admit that the state of the pathway could no longer reasonably be called temporary.

The final part of a performance trilogy on climate change, Falling Out fuses puppetry, Butoh, and Flex, to reflect on the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster.

The social practice works of Bon and Tuazon take the form of functional interventions to address and educate about California’s water crisis.

The ocean’s iron lungs.

Notions of ecological precarity and technological mediation enfold in the degraded landscape; the video artist surveys her decades of prescient and pressing work.

Featuring selections by Matthew Jeffrey Abrams, Emmanuel Iduma, Kaitlyn A. Kramer, Ashley Stull Meyers, and more.

Artist and writer discuss their globe-spanning travels.

The choreographer on exhaustion and revival.

The artist talks about painting the interrelation between frogs, stars, trees, and apples. 

Investigating the interface between humans, nature, and technology.

Comics have a good chance of surviving ecological disaster. Unlike, for example, blue-chip video art, there may be a place for hand-drawn sequential graphics after floodwaters recede.

Picture an area the size of Manhattan covered in sand. It rises and falls and disappears.

A modestly sized but nonetheless ambitious blend of catalog, monograph, and artist’s project, the book accompanies a touring exhibition of the same name which opened at the Contemporary Arts Center, New Orleans, in March 2016.

If novelists could tell the story of climate change, they might spark the action scientists are calling for in order to save the planet.

Brooklyn-based artist Ati Maier is currently in North Dakota, where she has joined the Standing Rock Sioux in their demonstrations against the Dakota Access Pipeline.