Rethinking Art and Creativity in an Era of Ecocide: Embodiment, Performance and Practice - Hardcover

Anna Pigott; Owain Jones; Ben Parry

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1350237221 ISBN 13: 9781350237223

Publisher: Bloomsbury Visual Arts, 2024

Synopsis

What can creativity achieve in an era of ecocide? Is it appropriate for creative and artistic practices to engage with the destruction of the biosphere? Is resistance and regeneration even possible in the face of escalating global environmental crises? Bringing together accounts of how artists and scholars are creatively responding to ecocide, this book re-evaluates the relationships between creativity, ecological crisis and political change. It highlights the growth of alternative approaches across the arts and within society, and then develops an original conception of creativity as an anti-ecocide endeavour by using examples from conventional art settings and daily life.

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About the Author

Anna Pigott is Lecturer in Human Geography at Swansea University, UK. Working in the field of Environmental Humanities, she is particularly interested in the impact of art and storytelling on our responses to environmental, social and economic crises. Owain Jones is Emeritus Professor of Environmental Humanities at Bath Spa University, UK. He has published over eighty scholarly articles and edited four books including Visual Culture in the Northern British Archipelago (2017). Ben Parry is Senior Lecturer and Course Leader of the MA in Curatorial Practice at Bath School of Art, Bath Spa University, UK. He is the co-editor of Cultural Hijack: Rethinking Intervention (2012) and works as an artist, curator and independent researcher at the intersections of art, activism and urban space.

Edition details

• Publisher: Bloomsbury Visual Arts
• Publication date: 2024
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1350237221
• ISBN 13: 9781350237223
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 272
• Editor: Owain Jones, Ben Parry, Anna Pigott