Studies for the End of the World, The philosophical question of ecology in art from the 1960's to the present
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Jaumouillé, Laure. 2022. Studies for the End of the World, The philosophical question of ecology in art from the 1960's to the present. Doctoral thesis, Goldsmiths, University of London [Thesis]
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We live in a world where the idea of progress and the endless growth of modernity are reaching a point of no return. The reality we now face, that of a natural world we have mismanaged, fills us with dread and a feeling of apocalyptic tension grips us. In the tradition of the British philosopher Alfred Whitehead, contemporary thinkers such as Isabelle Stengers, Eduardo Viveiros de Castro, and Bruno Latour have addressed the global ecological problem. In this same context, art appears as a valuable resource to make us “sensitive” to the environmental situation. We must therefore approach the notion of “aesthetics” in its original sense, that of a capacity to perceive and make oneself sensitive to a shared problem. This leads us to the following question: what kinds of aesthetic experiences tend to stimulate the conscience of a “concerned” audience and call its members to action? In the field of contemporary art, from the 1960s to the present day, we have witnessed the emergence of a collection of visual images, which invite us to rethink our value system and re-examine that which connects us to a “shared world”. These artistic practices interrogate the conditions of our co-existence in the age of environmental crises. The researchers mentioned above think through “motifs” and “images”, which we will describe as “textual”, in an attempt to reinvent connections between humans and non-humans. This doctoral thesis aims to extract a set of linguistic images and “thought motifs” from the writings of researchers in order to combine them with images drawn from artworks. What happens in the encounter between a “conceptual figure” and a “pictorial” one? Between logos and icon? At the heart of the relation between text and image, we hope to find the key to a new “power of action”, in the sense of an eloquence striving for a real awakening of collective consciousness.
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Thesis (Doctoral) |
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Art, Ecology |
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30 September 2022 |
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32308 |
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14 Oct 2022 11:42 |
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18 Oct 2022 12:33 |
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