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It’s Really Just a Love Story
INTRODUCTION RADICAL CARE HAS BEEN defined as “a set of vital but underappreciated strategies for enduring precarious worlds” (Hobart & Kneese, 2020, p. 2). Art can manifest as an important interface through which we allow ourselves to feel, grieve, and process “the Trouble” (Haraway, 2016). With nature as my muse, artmaking becomes transversal, rooted and […]
Liza Lim: Composer
INTRODUCTION THE MUSIC OF AUSTRALIAN COMPOSER LIZA LIM is a product of an empathy-driven ecological praxis that cycles through research, creation, and reflection. It emerges from her engagement with contemporary questions of ecological science and theory, the implications of Australian indigenous knowledges, and an aesthetic sense both formed within the western classical tradition and beautifully […]
Emphatic Relationships
My artistic subject matter is the life of nature. By contemplating nature, I seek to renew my own identity. -Reiko Goto Collins PROLOGUE LISTENING TO MORE than human others has an aesthetic quality that appeals to our ethical sensibilities and care towards others. I had written previously, ‘when we think about the public […]
Leslie Labowitz: Sprout Actions
INTRODUCTION Leslie Labowitz is a seminal Los Angeles feminist performance and visual artist who first became known in the 1970s for her anti-violence against women works in collaboration with Suzanne Lacy. By 1980, with the inception of her forty year art/life project SPROUTIME, she became involved with the ecology of food as both social and […]
Notes From The Precipice
PROLOGUE IN A BBC INTERVIEW, author Lionel Shriver discussed the ‘Five Minutes to Twelve Syndrome.’ Shriver elaborated: “It’s a tendency to push things to the very limit. You want to get that last little bit of good life before making decisions to prepare yourself for the bad life. Therefore you never make preparations, and you […]