Artists and writers go beyond disciplinary boundaries and linear histories to address the fight for environmental justice, uniting the Asia-Pacific vantage point with international discourse.
Artists and writers go beyond disciplinary boundaries and linear histories to address the fight for environmental justice, uniting the Asia-Pacific vantage point with international discourse.
Modeling the curatorial as a method for uniting cultural production and science, Climates. Habitats. Environments. weaves together image and text to address the global climate crisis. Through exhibitions, artworks, and essays, artists and writers transcend disciplinary boundaries and linear histories to bring their knowledge and experience to bear on the fight for environmental justice. In doing so, they draw on the rich cultural heritage of the Asia-Pacific, in conversation with international discourse, to demonstrate transdisciplinary solution-seeking.
Experimental in form as well as in method, Climates. Habitats. Environments. features an inventive book design by mono.studio that puts word and image on equal footing, offering a multiplicity of media, interpretations, and manifestations of interdisciplinary research. For example, botanist Matthew Hall draws on Ovid's Metamorphoses to discuss human-plant interpenetration; curator and writer Venus Lau considers how spectrality consumes-and is consumed-in animation and film, literature, music, and cuisine; and critical theorist and filmmaker Elizabeth Povinelli proposes ""Water Sense"" as a geontological approach to ""the question of our connected and differentiated existence,"" informed by the ""ancestral catastrophe of colonialism."" Artists excavate the natural and cultural DNA of indigo, lacquer, rattan, and mulberry; works at the intersection of art, design, and architecture explore ""The Posthuman City""; an ongoing research project investigates the ecological urgencies of Pacific archipelagos. The works of art, the projects, and the majority of the texts featured in the book were commissioned by NTU Centre for Contemporary Art Singapore.
Copublished with NTU Centre for Contemporary Art Singapore
By:
Ute Meta Bauer
Imprint: MIT Press
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions:
Height: 290mm,
Width: 234mm,
ISBN: 9780262046817
ISBN 10: 0262046814
Pages: 368
Publication Date: 03 May 2022
Audience:
General/trade
,
ELT Advanced
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
"12 Foreword 13 Preface 15 Introduction: Climates. Habitats. and Environments. The Natural, The Supranatural, The Oceanic 24 Introduction: The River Chapter 1 - The Natural 32 Exhibition: Trees of Life - Knowledge in Material 48 Plant Habitats 60 Fu Yabing, Masalon Dulo, Ikat Dyer, and the Theoretical Weight of Endurance 70 Exhibition: Jef Geys, Quadra Medicinale Singapore 84 Landfills--Non-places of Anthropocene 98 The Camille Stories: Children of Compost 106 Exhibition: The Posthuman City, Climates. Habitats. and Environments. 122 Human-Plant Metamorphosis 132 ""Suddenly, as If for the First Time, Winter Came, Once Again""--Environments, Change, and Art Chapter II-The Supranatural 144 Screening: An Invocation to the Earth 150 In the Trail of Fragrance and Tigers: Sensing a Pre-Islamic Fugitive King in the Islamic Present 168 Art and Communication: A Regional Genealogy 182 Embers of an Exhibition: Hauntology, Habitability, Postmodern Futures 192 Exhibition: Ghosts and Spectres-Shadows of History 206 Hungry Ghosts Chapter III-The Oceanic 220 Exhibition: Tarek Atoui. The Ground: From the Land to the Sea 234 Water Sense 254 An Oceanic Cosmology and Lifeworld 264 The Turn of the Tide: Maritime Vision and Kampung Mentality in Pramoedya Ananta Toer's Arus Baljk 270 Exhibition: Arus Balik-From Below the Wind to Above the Wind and Back Again 286 The Ocean in Us 298 Exhibition: The Oceanic 316 The Ecological Imperative 322 Research Presentation: What is Deep Sea Mining? 326 Conference: The Current Convening #3 Tabu / Tapu - Who Owns the Ocean? 340 The Open Boat Chapter IV-The River 52 Annalies 56 Songmap for Lim Kim Seng and Lim Kim Chua Sunshadow Boxes 90 In Depth (landmines) / Cambodian Series In Depth (landmines) / Colombian Series 94 Research Presentation: Final Report of the Christmas Island Expert Working Group 128 Art as Environment--A Cultural Action at the Plum Tree Creek 160 Flowers from our Bloodlines 164 No Gods, No Masters 174 Research Presentation: The Wind that Cuts the Body 178 Marshal Tie Jia - Turtle Island Marshal Tie Jia - Jingsi Village 212 Central Region 238 Research Presentation: The Ring of Fire (2014-Ongoing) 242 Mngrv 246 Panangatan 250 Gut Technics 260 Pulau Kutai Appendix 344 Biographies 354 Credits 360 About NTU Centre for Contemporary Art Singapore 366 NTU CCA Singapore Timeline (2017-21) 398 Acknowledgments 400 Colophon"
Ute Meta Bauer is Founding Director of NTU Centre for Contemporary Art Singapore and Professor in the School of Art, Design, and Media at Nanyang Technological University Singapore. Previously, she was Associate Professor and Founding Director of the MIT Program in Art, Culture, and Technology (ACT) in the MIT School of Architecture and Planning (SA+P).
