The arts have the potential to capacity to ‘shift people’s hearts and minds and will be central to a transformation agenda’ but too many, including myself, are anchored in modernity’s comforts and woven into colonial systems to see the forest for the trees.
While I appreciate and respect any and all efforts to create art that raises environmental awareness and that proposes solutions to the ecological crisis, the artistic activities that interest me the most now are those that directly address the root causes of our destructive behaviour and that contribute to creating the elusive ‘conditions for other possible worlds‘.
Anything else seems like fiddling while Rome burns.
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