{"id":3086,"date":"2021-03-15T14:54:25","date_gmt":"2021-03-15T22:54:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theiff.org\/current\/?p=3086"},"modified":"2022-10-31T04:56:34","modified_gmt":"2022-10-31T12:56:34","slug":"ucl-lecture-cultural-ecology-crochet-reef","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theiff.org\/current\/events\/ucl-lecture-cultural-ecology-crochet-reef\/","title":{"rendered":"Cultural Ecology & the Crochet Coral Reef"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The Crochet Coral Reef<\/em><\/span><\/span> is discussed in a seminar<\/a> at University College London “The Disappointing Apocalypse” led by Professor Andrew Patrizio University of Edinburgh). The event is part of the UCL seminar series “Cultural Ecology: Galvanizing Climate Action Across the Arts.”<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

Series description:<\/strong><\/div>\n
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The Cultural Ecology<\/em> seminar programme will unite activist-academics working across the arts to interrogate the following question: \u2018How might cultural researchers galvanise more urgent and effective responses to the climate crisis to remedy the severe inadequacy of the actions currently being set into motion by governments and corporations?\u2019<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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The Disappointing Apocalypse<\/em> – seminar description:<\/strong><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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\u2018Apocalypse\u2019 has been depicted by numerous artists globally (from medieval manuscript illuminators to the Romantics), first as a visualisation of Christian doctrinal warning and then more generally as a cultural trope for a variety of apocalyptic forms (nuclear war, migration, racial tension, famine). Climate collapse, global warming, pollution, toxicity and plastic proliferation, genetic mutation and viral spread are recently ecologically-framed manifestations on a similar register. These formations are worked on by artists, particularly those employing systemic, critical, relational and conceptual approaches. The disaster is now materially unfolding and seems disappointingly unconcerned with redemption and human futures, whilst being at the same time entirely caused by industrialised humans (expressed through resource depletion, rising waters and mass extinction). It is now difficult to imagine in the visual arts the notion of apocalypse without registering the material presence of climate crisis.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Among the art practices discussed will be Helen Mayer and Newton Harrison, The Lagoon Cycle (1974-1986), Ursula Biemann, Black Sea Files (2005), Trevor Paglen, The Last Pictures (2012), Moon Kyungwon and Jeon Joonho, El Fin del Mundo (The End of the World) (2012) and Margaret Wertheim and Christine Wertheim, Crochet Coral Reef (2005-ongoing).”<\/span><\/div>\n
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