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This piece of environmental art had a purpose. The purpose that aimed to achieve, and it did achieve, was to break down the boundaries of art and life by using ‘poor’ materials. Using common physical representations of life and merging life with art. This Untitled piece by Kournellis relates to The Lightning Field by Walter de Maria in which each broke down the ideas and expectations of art and its separation from life. These two artists challenged the boundaries of art and everyday life and led the viewer to question what is life and what is art.

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This piece, Untitled by Pierre Huyghe, shows the reality of existence and survival of species living amongst one another. This piece shows life living in tandem and how each living being affects one another. This piece takes places outside in the natural environment of the local area these animals reside in.

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Damien Hirst, The Physical Impossibility of Death in the Mind of Someone Living

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The Artist Profile Archive: Alexis Rockman

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Sue Coe’s Zooicide relates to the reality of the treatment of animals in for profit environments and leads the viewer into feeling dismay and outrage. An easy, effective, and honest portrayal of the abuse animals are put through for consumption, profit, and vanity is showing the viewer exactly what that means. There is a large disconnect of the treatment of animals in comparison to the instant gratification of purchasing animal products. There is no connection to killing and using the carcass of an animal in conventional commercial spaces. By showing the process and environment of the animals in the process of being used, the viewer will most likely feel discomfort and dismay at the realities of animal cruelty. The works of Sue Coe are made up of graphic scenes of reality. Sue Coe uses our uncomfortability on blood and gore to convey that reality of life based on animal consumption.

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Zooicide - Seeing Cruelty, Demanding Abolition by Sue Coe is a collection of the artist's thought-provoking work focused 'on the physical and psychological cruelty meted out to animals in zoos'. This extract is from the book's essay by Stephen F. Eisenman, a New York-based profess

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Before it´s too late (just one more week), I absolutely had to go see the exhibition of Kiki Smith´s large size canvases and other works at the Lower Belvedere museum. The Belvedere is showing abo…

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“I desperately seek unity, albeit difficult to attain, albeit Utopian, albeit impossible and therefore dramatic.” - Jannis Kounellis, 1982 (32)

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'Nature of Witnessing,' focuses on the connection between the exploitation of the environment and the exploitation of animals alike. This project reveals the stark reality of our current state of survival and luxury, which often comes at the expense of animals and the environment. This project focuses on the unsustainable current state of existence and how we, as a whole of humanity, disrespect nature and everything sustainability stands for.

The environmental aspect focuses on witnessing the destruction of the environment itself and the animals we take advantage of and use in our quest for luxury and survival.

This project critiques the past and current state of animal consumption and how it ties to the health of the environment. This project critiques our treatment of the sentient beings of animals we produce products from.

This connects to our course through the connection between human consumption of animals and the resources the environment provides for us. This connects to our course by revealing the reality of the treatment of animals and the surrounding environment.

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Would you ever want to create a large scale piece of environmental art starring anima life and their interactions? Would you want to create art with the intention of making commentary on the status quo of human commodity of survival and animal consumption? Would you ever want to make art in the hopes to igniting change in the world of animal treatment?