Sustainability in an imaginary world art and the question of agency
An introduction to sustainability in an imaginary world -- Sustainability as a failure of ontology -- Art as the attention we pay -- Does it need to be good to be useful? Art, aesthetic merit, and research design -- Artists of the floating world : an art-sustainability commissioning strategy -- A ba...
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London ; New York
Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group
2020
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| Schriftenreihe: | Routledge studies in sustainability
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Tag hinzufügen | Zusammenfassung: | An introduction to sustainability in an imaginary world -- Sustainability as a failure of ontology -- Art as the attention we pay -- Does it need to be good to be useful? Art, aesthetic merit, and research design -- Artists of the floating world : an art-sustainability commissioning strategy -- A bard in the borderlands : the poetry of Don McKay -- Faith in a world of our making? The perils of interactive theatre -- Interactive music making : radical aesthetics, radical politics? -- Making sense of artists of the floating world -- Sustainability in an imaginary world : the initial ideas -- Principles of transdisciplinary research as a template for arts-based research? -- A glimpse into sustainability in an imaginary world -- Making art in a digital world -- thoughts on an unstable landscape -- Evaluating sustainability in an imaginary world -- Hopeful monster "Sustainability in an Imaginary World explores the social agency of art and its connection to complex issues of sustainability. Over the past decade, interest in art's agency has ballooned as an increasing number of fields turn to the arts with ever-expanding expectations. Yet just as art is being heralded as a magic bullet of social change, research is beginning to throw cautionary light on such enthusiasm, challenging the linear, prescriptive, instrumental expectations such transdisciplinary interactions often imply. In this, art finds itself at a treacherous crossroads, unable to turn a deaf ear to calls for help from an increasing number of ostensibly non-aesthetic fields, yet in answering such prescriptive urgencies, jeopardizing the very power for which its help was sought in the first place. This book goes in search of a way forward, proposing a theory of art aiming to preserve the integrity of arts practices within transdisciplinary mandates. This approach is then explored through a series of case studies developed in collaboration with some of Canada's most prominent artists, including internationally-renowned nature poet Don McKay; Italian composer and Head of Vancouver New Music, Giorgio Magnanesi; the renowned Electric Company Theatre, led by Kevin Kerr; and finally through a largescale multimedia installation aiming to reimagine the relationship between climate, culture, and human agency. Sustainability in an Imaginary World will be of great interest to students and scholars of arts-based research fields, sustainability studies, and environmental humanities"-- |
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| Beschreibung: | x, 251 Seiten Illustrationen |
| ISBN: | 9780367365158 978-0-367-36515-8 |