Are you interested in the intersection of Art and Environmental Studies?
Please join the Department of Art, Hoffman Gallery and Office of Sustainability for a public lecture and discussion with Linda Weintraub on Monday night, February 19th. Linda is an artist, curator, educator and well known author of several popular books about contemporary art and environmentalism. She is a visiting artist at NOMAD9 MFA Program at Hartford University; and maintains a homestead in upstate New York.
When: 7pm-8:30pm FEBRUARY 19th
What: Lecture and Q&A
“What’s Next? Eco Materialism and Contemporary Art”-–the role of the artist in conveying complex and emotional issues related to ecological and social catastrophe.
Where: Lewis & Clark Campus, Agnes Flanagan Chapel, Portland, OR 97219
BOOK BLURB:
What’s Next? Eco materialism and Contemporary Art, Forthcoming from Intellect Books, UK, July 2018.
By paying tribute to matter, materiality, and materialization, the examples of contemporary art assembled in this book represent a significant frontier of contemporary culture. Their bold art initiatives are identified as “Eco Materialism” because they affirm the emergent philosophy of Neo Materialism, and they attend to the pragmatic urgency of environmentalism.
Eco Material creative enterprises reacquaint the public with the lapsed wonders of weight, texture, moisture, temperature, fragility, suppleness, elasticity, bulge, hollow, contour, and a host of other physical properties that are being neglected in favor of data, simulations, and digital transmissions. While such fundamental physical conditions have been accounting for life on Earth for the past 3.5 billion years, currently they are accounting for extinctions and other planetary perils. This book explores art that returns materiality as a strategy to convert society’s environmental neglect into responsible stewardship.
Within the social context, the shift that Eco Material artists are pioneering diverge from the behaviors and attitudes imbedded in dematerialized forms of communication, working, learning, and playing that currently prevail. Within the context of art, re-materialization represents a radical shift away from the de-materialization of conceptual, relational, body, sound, social practice, and performance forms of creative engagement, and from the dazzling antics of cyber technologies. Enriched by its associations with philosophy, ecology and cultural critique, this timely endeavor bears the hallmarks of a new art “movement”.
Cara Tomlinson
Associate Professor of Art
Art Department Chair, Spring 2018
Lewis & Clark College
www. caratomlinson.com