Guardian article on ways in which artists are engaging people in their local communities with climate change
Corporate sustainability messaging isn’t working – it’s time to look to the arts http://www.theguardian.com/sustainable-business/corporate-messaging-art-provoke-response
Guardian article “Why getting creative about climate change makes sense” by David Buckland of the Cape Farewell project, which brings artists and scientists together with the aim of changing attitudes towards climate change.
“My work is very much process led, and it’s only a matter of tradition/necessity in art that there is a product at all,” she says. “So the journey, the search, is the place where ideas form and – if I’m lucky – exciting surprises happen.” Vicki Bennett.
Chris Harratt from a-n talks to her: http://new.a-n.co.uk/news/single/sound-gesture-an-audio-visual-collaboration/1
Does climate change art have the power to touch, disturb, move, persuade or inspire change? This article from the Economist surveys some examples of climate change art to consider some of these questions. http://www.economist.com/news/books-and-arts/21581970-future-uncertain-it-also-inspiring-chilling
Who makes art about climate change?
‘Physically engaging with the paint allows you to tap into different parts of yourself’ says Lisa Milroy
Video from TateShots.
In this, curator Catherine Wood describes how Pollock’s work was seen as a key point in the history of performance, because “the film of Pollock making the painting became as important arguably for the next generation of artists as the finished object.”
Describing the current generation of artists, she says “paint and the canvas are still present – it’s just in a more performative way; a more theatrical way.”