Africa-arctic flyway physiocratic states
What if art holds solutions to the ecological crises of our time? For forty-six years, Peter Fend has argued that art premonitions material culture, therefore the means of production, ensuing changes in social relations. Hence, in his view, works by Marcel Duchamp, Carolee Schneemann, Mary Beth Edel...
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Sternberg Press
2022
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Tag hinzufügen | Zusammenfassung: | What if art holds solutions to the ecological crises of our time? For forty-six years, Peter Fend has argued that art premonitions material culture, therefore the means of production, ensuing changes in social relations. Hence, in his view, works by Marcel Duchamp, Carolee Schneemann, Mary Beth Edelson, Paul Sharits, and others, can prefigure ecological restoration and cohabitation. In the late 1970s, artists in New York initiated teams—first Colab, The Offices, and later Ocean Earth and Space Force—to move from critique into effecting real-world change. Initiatives came from Jenny Holzer, Coleen Fitzgibbon, Taro Suzuki, Joan Waltemath, and Eve Vaterlaus, among others, who linked up with scientists to produce reports and analyses with satellite imagery for news media. Africa-Arctic Flyway: Physiocratic States gathers documents of Peter Fend’s efforts through Ocean Earth for a planet organized according to hydrology—water basins—rather than national and colonial borders. It lays out tools and technologies derived from art, architecture, and science to replace fossil fuels, dams, nuclear industry, and industrial farming. The ensuing proposal for governance builds on what is identified as the first school of economic thought: physiocracy. Here, via satellite-aided eco-taxation, governance pursues an increase in the numbers of fish, marine mammals, migratory birds, and insects. For instance, ideas from Earth art are applied to restoring wetlands and flyways in three swaths—the Americas, East Asia, and Eurafrica—converging on the Arctic. This book focuses on the Eurafrica flyway and surveys four decades of work. It asks, "How do we go from visual art to reality?" Fend answers: "Through architecture." |
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| Beschreibung: | Impressum: This monograph is published on the occasion of the exhibition "Africa-Arctic Flyway", curated by Elisa R. Linn and Lennart Wolff at Museo Nivola, Orani, October 25, 2019 - January 26, 2020 |
| Beschreibung: | 250 Seiten Illustrationen |
| ISBN: | 9783956796326 978-3-95679-632-6 |