Lessons from a Multispecies Studio: Uncovering Ecological Understanding and Biophilia through Creative Reciprocity

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Julie Andreyev
Keyword(s):  
Critical Discourse ◽  
Art Practice ◽  
Forest Communities ◽  
Creative Processes ◽  
Ecological Understanding ◽  
The Earth

Lessons from a Multispecies Art Studio presents new critical discourse and applied methods based on the author’s own research and art practice called Animal Lover. Each chapter narrates the creative processes of one project, coming into contact with the worlds of canines, salmon, birds and forest communities, and how these encounters transformed the author’s outlook on the Earth and all of life.

Sociosonic Interventions: Distributed Authorship in Socially Engaged Sound Practices

2020 ◽  
Vol 30 ◽  
pp. 109-113
Author(s):  
Tullis Rennie
Keyword(s):  
Art Practice ◽  
Community Settings ◽  
Art Making ◽  
Creative Processes ◽  
Socially Engaged Art ◽  
Collaborative Art ◽  
Ethics And Politics

How do creative sound practices function in the context of socially engaged art? Toward developing a practical methodology, this paper focuses on sound-led projects that stage socially engaged art practice in community settings, including some involving the author. Aesthetics, ethics and politics are employed as interrogative lenses for distributed creative processes. Methods for collaborative art-making that facilitate a balance between these lenses are discussed, with the author further arguing the necessity of artistic “disruption.” Such sociosonic interventions are demonstrated to occur most effectively when sound practices challenge the paradigm of unidirectional audial reproduction: rupturing traditional hierarchies of creator and listener.

scholarly journals Beyond the Notion

2012 ◽  
Vol 16 (1 and 2) ◽  
pp. 421-427
Author(s):  
Govinda Sah 'Azad'
Keyword(s):  
Art Practice ◽  
The Earth

My recent art practice involves the ancient symbol of 108, an Asian astronomical number that is used for ritual and tantric enlightenment. It represents the complete universe, and expresses coincidences in astronomical measurements, involving the relative diameters of the earth, moon and sun as well as the distances between them.

Relationships between Art, Science and Epistemology: The Earth as a Laboratory and the “Intruder Artist”

Leonardo ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 51 (2) ◽  
pp. 191-192
Author(s):  
Paz Tornero
Keyword(s):  
Critical Thinking ◽  
San Francisco ◽  
Foreign Visitor ◽  
Creative Processes ◽  
The Earth ◽  
New Knowledge ◽  
Technical Considerations

This article is a brief review on the contemporary artistic epistemology and its use of the transdisciplinary practices as a form of developing artwork. The main objective is to analyze the artist’s interest and creativity on scientific issues and their peculiar view on new scientific and ecological paradigms to generate new knowledge, critical thinking, creative processes or new innovations. The author also explains his experience as researcher in the Institute of Microbiology at San Francisco University of Quito, Ecuador, where perhaps his presence could have been viewed as an “invasion” of the laboratory. For that reason, he uses the expression “intruder artist”—“the scientific spaces” foreign visitor who tries to understand technical considerations on processes and experiments, so they could produce inspiration on new “hybrid” artworks.

ENVIRONMENTAL ETHICS FOR A FALLEN WORLD: JOHANN JAKOB SCHEUCHZER (1672–1733) AND THE BOUNDARIES OF HUMAN AGENCY

2020 ◽  
Vol 39 (2) ◽  
pp. 447-473
Author(s):  
SARA MIGLIETTI
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Ethics ◽  
Natural Theology ◽  
Thought Experiments ◽  
Critical Discourse ◽  
Biblical Exegesis ◽  
The Bible ◽  
The Earth ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Environmental Agency

ABSTRACT This article traces the formation of a (self-)critical discourse around human environmental agency in early Enlightenment Europe, focusing on the Swiss naturalist Johann Jakob Scheuchzer (1672–1733) and the Royal Society milieus to which he was connected. In manuscript and printed writings, and particularly in his beautifully illustrated Physica sacra (1731–1735), Scheuchzer used a combination of biblical exegesis, thought experiments, and ecological insights to reflect about the relationship between God, humankind, and nature. Against claims that the tradition of natural theology in which Scheuchzer belonged “prevented and delayed the acknowledgment of the earth as vulnerable” (Kempe 2003b, p. 166), the article shows how different thinkers could use the Bible to support competing claims regarding the role of humans as agents in God’s creation. While some authors enthusiastically upheld contemporary ideologies of environmental ‘improvement’, others—including Scheuchzer himself—called for greater self-restraint and developed a biblically-grounded form of precautionary environmental ethics.

scholarly journals Space, place and ecology: Doing ecofeminist urban theology in Gauteng

2014 ◽  
Vol 70 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Annalet Van Schalkwyk
Keyword(s):  
Urban Space ◽  
The Body ◽  
Space And Place ◽  
Urban Mission ◽  
Presence Of God ◽  
Ecological Understanding ◽  
Urban Activism ◽  
The Earth ◽  
Urban Theology

The basic motivation for this article is to explore the critical, yet hopeful vision which urban theologians – and specifically ecofeminist urban theologians – have for justice, reconciliation and abundance of life in urban Gauteng. This requires that urban spatiality, with its conflicting sides in a rampantly capitalist Gauteng, needs to be understood. It also requires an understanding of how urbanity and ecology may – yet so often do not – overlap. According to ecofeminist theologian Anne Primavesi, space and place needs to be understood in relation to the earth as the body of God – a web of interrelated and interconnected subjects and living beings which constitute the earth with its various ecosystems. This belies the established understanding that space and place is created mostly through the anthropocentric activity and mastery of people. Such an ecological understanding of space, place and urbanity leads to my exploration of a missiology of space as the manifestation of the presence of God in the spaces of nature and human civilisation. I conclude by proposing the practice of urban mission as making the liturgical and sacramental links between ecology, space, and the reclamation of urban space as sacred by Christian and other agents of urban activism.

scholarly journals REFLECTIONS ON THE CURRENT ECOLOGICAL CRISIS AND REACTIONS THROUGH ART

2020 ◽  
pp. 15-20
Author(s):  
Abhilasha Pandey
Keyword(s):  
Ecological Crisis ◽  
Indian Society ◽  
Art Practice ◽  
Ecological Disturbance ◽  
Ecological Art ◽  
The Earth

The varied constituents of Indian society differ enormously among themselves in their access to the resources of the earth. Today, we dwell in the ‘age of ecological arrogance’. Women and Nature have both undergone exploitation. This paper deliberates on the present ecological scenario giving insights from important writers. It further discusses how ecological disturbance instigated into an art practice. Giving examples, it reflects on the practices of some important contemporary ecological artists of India. KEYWORDS: Ecology, Environment, Ecological Art, Eco-Artists

scholarly journals MOLTMANN SPEAKING AT THE ECO-ENVIRONMENTALISTS CONFERENCE: ECOLOGY AND THEOLOGY IN DIALOGUE

Scriptura ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 120 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Kelebogile Thomas Resane
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
Critical Role ◽  
Ecological Crisis ◽  
Trinitarian Theology ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
Ecological Understanding ◽  
The Earth ◽  
Triune God ◽  
Relationship Of

This article explains Moltmann’s doctrine of ecology as applied by ecotheologians to address the ecological crisis. Ecotheology is highlighted as a critical role-player in the harmonisation of theology and ecology. The role of ecotheology is defined within the ecological crisis in South Africa. The emergence of ecotheology assists scholars to balance and maintain a stable and theologically sensible mode of stewardship, taking a command from the perichoretical example for us to dwell together with God and creation as partners towards creation fulfilment. Moltmann’s response to ecological abuse is to provide a Trinitarian theology of the environment that encompasses creation, redemption and anthropology. His theology of the environment attempts to widen its eschatological focus by stressing that humanity and the environment are being redeemed in the coming of God’s Kingdom. Moltmann’s trinitarian theology, especially from the perichoretical inter-relationship of the triune God, pneumatological application in creation, and humanity’s pivotal position and role are all elaborated to support ecological understanding. Humanity as imago Dei are encouraged to move from the traditional view of dominating the earth towards that of becoming partners with God in the eschatological replenishment of the earth. Humans need to take a gigantic leap of acquiring knowledge of the trinitarian creation model suggested by Moltmann’s ecological doctrine i.e. God-Creation-Humanity. Human beings must find out what their God-given meaning for the creation is, and when they have done so, their sense of responsibility will be ignited.

scholarly journals The activation of ideological content of the story "Dark They Were, and Golden-Eyed" by Rey Bradbury with the help of symbolic images by means of artistic expression

2019 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
American Fiction ◽  
Research Development ◽  
Creative Processes ◽  
Spiritual World ◽  
The Earth ◽  
The World ◽  
Ray Bradbury ◽  
Golden Color ◽  
Symbolic Images ◽  
Different Levels

The prose of American fiction writer Ray Bradbury is a vivid example of worldview moves in American prose of the twentieth century. The article investigates the role and significance of author's symbolic images influencing on the reader's thought-making and spiritual processes and plays a significant role in activating the ideological content of Ray Bradbury's story "Dark They Were, and Golden-Eyed". The study considered the functioning of symbolic images, their interaction and dynamics in the process of deployment of the plot. The author of the article highlights the opinion that the study of the symbolism of the work is a necessary prerequisite for understanding the author's outlook and an important component in decoding the ideological content of the story. The idea of the work, that spirituality is inevitable and research development in the world conquest is a false way, is disclosed according to the central moments of the story. There are such features of character modification at different levels: 1) at the level of characters consciousness through the description of the terrestrial flora and fauna regeneration; 2) at the level of physiology through the reflection of the sun and water influence on the human body; 3) at the level of the spiritual world metamorphosis of characters; 4) on the level of characters’ ideology; 5) at the level of psychology it is the reluctance to return from the Mars house to the Earth settlement. The author carries out the interpretation of the symbolic characters of the writer relying on the context and exploring the emotional psychological and philosophical hidden motives that allow understanding the author's plan more. Interaction of wind, rocket, river, mansion, language, tree and golden color symbolic images creates a field for interpreting the ideological content of the story. The complete decoding of the symbolic characters helps to read the philosophical subtext of the story allowing to identify the author's perception of the world. The study discovered that the characters in the story "Dark They Were, and Golden-Eyed" by Ray Bradbury are filled with new content. It specifies and activates the ideological content, and makes stronger the reader's intellectual and creative processes.

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