Climate Act and Art Making Research Map by Reyyan Dogan

A Cyborg Manifesto by Donna Haraway

kevserreyyan — 2024-06-09 08:39:55 UTC

To Haraway, humans are not merely objects or subjects; they are cyborgs shaped through interaction with their environment.

How does art contribute to taking action on urgent matters? Can climate crisis become tangible for all?

kevserreyyan — 2024-06-09 08:48:54 UTC

Research under the following questions:

How are people reacting to the climate crises?
What can trigger people to feel empathy or realization?
How art making change people's engagement?
Can emotional evoking trigger a change?
Highlighting the current debates through art, raising questions, and opening spaces for people to find their path in the activism of ongoing crises...

On Art and Activism, by Olafur Eliasson and Kumi Naidoo

kevserreyyan — 2024-06-09 09:07:31 UTC

Krebs Cycle of Creativity by Neri Oxman

kevserreyyan — 2024-06-09 10:14:05 UTC

In Oxman's conceptualization of the Krebs Cycle of Creativity, Science is portrayed as converting information into knowledge; Engineering translates this knowledge into practical utility; Design then integrates utility into cultural behavior and context; finally Art engages with that context to challenge our perception of the world.

Dear Climate by Una Chaudhuri, Fritz Ertl, Oliver Kellhammer & Marina Zurkow

kevserreyyan — 2024-06-09 10:40:15 UTC

"You're changing fast.
We want to change with you."

Dear Climate posters

kevserreyyan — 2024-06-09 10:47:48 UTC

“Dear Climate” responds to the psychic dimensions of climate change and global “weirding.” It is a training program for the spirit and the imagination, using a tone, aesthetic, and vocabulary that’s the opposite of the prevailing ones: instead of crisis and catastrophe, “Dear Climate” animates the familiar and ordinary; instead of desperation and heroism, it fosters playfulness and friendliness.

Why Art Has the Power to Change the World by Olafur Eliasson

kevserreyyan — 2024-06-09 10:50:36 UTC

"... We become aware of a feeling that may not be unfamiliar to us but which we did not actively focus on before. This transformative experience is what art is constantly seeking."

Whale Fall Feast by Dear Climate

kevserreyyan — 2024-06-09 10:55:48 UTC

"Whale-Fall Feast" aims to foster a connection with the natural world, inviting players to experience the ocean's vitality. Initially appearing as a whale carcass, the game reveals itself as a space for communal nourishment and celebration. Players transition from passive observers to active participants in the life cycles of the ocean, encountering both its gifts and the environmental challenges it faces.

'die-in' by Extinction Rebellion

kevserreyyan — 2024-06-09 11:04:16 UTC

A performative art as a protest. Participants dressed as bees collapsed and draw attention to the extinction of the creatures.

Ice Watch by Olafur Eliasson and Minik Rosing

kevserreyyan — 2024-06-09 11:09:49 UTC

An artwork featuring multiple blocks of free-floating glacial ice from Greenland in Copenhagen. People experience multiple senses as the blocks of ice transforms into water around them with cracking sounds.

Orisons by Marguerite Humeau

kevserreyyan — 2024-06-09 11:19:53 UTC

This 160-acre earthwork in Colorado's San Luis Valley honors the area's history, ecosystem, and potential futures. It includes the entire plot of land and eighty-four kinetic sculptures representing its past and connections. The region is facing a severe megadrought due to climate change, like much of the Southwest United States.

"Make Everyday Earth Day!" by Peter Max

kevserreyyan — 2024-06-09 11:43:22 UTC

The official artwork for Earth Day 1992, a colorful, joyful reminder to love our planet and 'Make Every Day Earth Day!'

“I pledge to make the earth a secure and hospitable home for present and future generations.”

kevserreyyan — 2024-06-09 11:45:31 UTC

Last Turn–Your Turn by Robert Rauschenberg

"...a work of art can make us more tolerant of difference and of one another. The encounter with art -- and with others over art -- can help us identify with one another, expand our notions of we, and show us that individual engagement in the world has actual consequences."

kevserreyyan — 2024-06-09 11:51:01 UTC

Olafur Eliasson, "Why Art Has the Power to Change the World"

The Weather Project by Olafur Eliasson

kevserreyyan — 2024-06-09 12:09:43 UTC

“Environmentalism is no longer an issue of regional pollution, but a global, systemic, existential issue.”

kevserreyyan — 2024-06-09 13:32:12 UTC

Metropolis Magazine, Charting the History of Environmental Activism Through Posters

Climate Change Art Examining How the Artistic Community Expresses the Climate Crisis by Shauna Doll and Tarah Wright

kevserreyyan — 2024-06-09 18:29:57 UTC

"Climate change is not a scientific problem but a cultural one."

"That is to say: the ability to create sufficient leverage to leap from Art to Science is the ultimate force multiplier. It’s where potential energy is converted to kinetic energy, a posse ad esse."

kevserreyyan — 2024-06-09 19:25:41 UTC

Neri Oxman, "Age of Entanglement"

Art as a catalysts for empathy and action

kevserreyyan — 2024-06-09 19:33:08 UTC

Scientific information about the climate crisis often fails to trigger action among people. People seek more tangible forms and experiences to evoke emotions, which are seen as catalysts for action.

Art in different forms with similar goals

kevserreyyan — 2024-06-09 19:35:41 UTC

Art in different forms, sculptures, installations, performative art, photography, music, theatre, can open room for people to find their own reflections, thoughts, and parts within the times of crises.

Art can make crises more tangible

kevserreyyan — 2024-06-09 19:37:33 UTC

The climate crisis has multiple perpetrators and requires multiple actions to turn the ship around.

kevserreyyan — 2024-06-09 19:40:14 UTC