activism
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e87 kendra fanconi – on the artist brigade, ben okri, eco-restoration, eco-grief & reauthoring the world
‘We are all artists of the Anthropocene. We inherently are because this is the world that we’re living in right now. There’s no other world. We were down earlier at Robert’s Creek (BC) and it’s a salmon bearing stream. I think of it like we’re artists in the Anthropocene, like fish would be in the…
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e83 the greatest mass movement in history
‘This episode lasts 59 seconds. I want to share a November 13th, 2021, tweet by British writer and climate activist George Monbiot: ‘Now we have no choice but to raise the scale of civil disobedience until we have built the greatest mass movement in history. We do not consent to the destruction of our life…
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e82 washable paint
e82 is an unedited, 20-minute soundscape recording, without narration, of a climate emergency rally and march on Friday, November 12, 2021, in Vancouver and an incident with police. The recording includes songs, speeches and chants about climate action and social justice.
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e78 milena droumeva – art needs to get on the street
‘I think art needs to get on the street, because raising awareness in a gallery is really speaking to the choir. I’ll leave raising awareness, because we both agree that the time for that has passed, but I think art needs to revert back to artisan and crafts, in the sense that imagination can lead…
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e44 bilodeau – the arts are good at changing culture
I think of the arts as planting a seed and saying ‘here’s a problem: let’s think about it together and explore avenues.’
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e36 fanconi – towards carbon positive work
We want to do carbon positive work and for our artwork to be involved with ecological restoration.
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e26 klein – rallying through art
The work of artists during World War II was not dystopian (though horrific), the tone was rallying us.
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e23 appadurai – what does a just transition look like?
The ecological crisis is a symptom of our rift from nature and our urge to dominate others which artists can touch.
