Ecological Art: Defining
Our Practice
a creative process that recognizes the historic dichotomy between
nature and culture and works towards healing the human relationship
to the natural world and its ecosystems.
Eco-art is also fundamentally interdisciplinary.
We cannot rely on the art world as the only point of engagement
and interpretation and must utilize other perspectives. Furthermore,
the artists involved in this practice cannot confine their learning
or production to art. In this interdisciplinary model, artists
expand their practice by moving outside their discipline and its
institutionalized relationship to society. Eco-Art expands each
of the combined perspectives, thus providing artists with a new
path to social engagement. Inherent in this path is the responsibility
for artists to educate themselves in multiple disciplines. In
turn, the work needs to be received and evaluated for the totality
of its intention and not by traditional artistic standards alone.
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Objectives of Eco-Art
- Advocate compassionately for natural
and human communities
- Address damages to diversity and
dynamics of ecosystems
- Express value, with the intention
of transformation
- Balance the technical with the biological
and ecological
- Encourage interdisciplinary expert
participation and knowledge
- Facilitate a supplementary response through
discourse with citizens
- Create conceptually informed aesthetic
experience of complex systems.
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"First
Nature is nature per se, unmediated by human knowing. From this
starting point then, all we can know is second nature, nature mediated
by thought, and all thought occurs inside culture. Second Nature
is a concept which may help resolve the problem of avoiding the
extremes of a too-sanguine belief in the capacity of humans to change,
on the onehand, and biologistic reductionism, on the other."
-Robert M. Young, Second Nature: the Historicity of the Unconscious
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Ecology:
Ecological restoration
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