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Edinburgh College of Art, University of Edinburgh

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From: PATRIZIO Andrew [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
Sent: 01 November 2015 08:36
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Subject: [eehn] CfP: Association of Art Historians Conference, Edinburgh 7-9 April 2016

 

Dear all,

 

There is a CfP’s deadline of 9 November 2015 for this interesting panel at next year’s AAH.

 

At the World’s End: Contemporary art, visual culture and extinction studies

 

Details and links pasted below.

 

Andrew

 

 

http://www.aah.org.uk/annual-conference/sessions2016/session8

 

Convenor:

Andrés David Montenegro Rosero, Bridgewater State University, [log in to unmask]

According to recent reports, Earth is on the verge of a cataclysmic climactic change that threatens the existence of all life in the planet. As explored by the Extinction Marathon – a two-day multidisciplinary encounter of artists, scientists, filmmakers, theorists, and other cultural practitioners organised by the Serpentine Gallery and artist Gustav Metzger in 2014 – if the age fuelled by fossil extraction continues unchecked we will be headed towards a collapse on a planetary scale. Other important contributions to the topic have been the exhibitions Radical Nature (2009), Animism (2012), Rights of Nature (2015), or Metzger’s Mass Media:todayandyesterday.co.uk (2014); the artistic practices of Tue Greenfort, Bill Burns, Subhankar Banerjee, Pieter Hugo, Eduardo Kac, Patricia Piccinini, Newton Harrison and Helen Mayer Harrison, Ravi Agarwal, or George Osodi, among others.

This panel explores the role that culture plays in relation to today’s manifold ecological crises. Facing this grim future head-on, it investigates how contemporary exhibitions, installations, and works of art have confronted the politics of climate change, the continuous destruction of ecosystems, habitat and species loss, and global warming. How have varied cultural products critically engaged biotechnology and the impending catastrophe? How has contemporary art and visual culture contributed to the study of the relationship between the Rights of Nature and Human Rights?

- See more at: http://www.aah.org.uk/annual-conference/sessions2016/session8#sthash.j3smMouq.dpuf

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