Eco-Visionaries : Art, Architecture, and New Media after the Anthropocene

Abstract

Eco-Visionaries' presents contemporary positions in art and architecture seeking answers to current environmental problems that transcend mainstream notions of sustainability. This comprehensive volume is a companion to the collaborative 2018 exhibition endeavored by four participating European museums. Each show maintains a different focus and curatorial approach, and for each, artists investigate alternative visions regarding humankind's place on earth through video and sound works, paintings, and installations. While the series of exhibitions presents the works of artists and architects who offer critical reflections on pressing contemporary issues, the book unites research, essays, as well as a survey of the artworks. The endless summer / Pedro Gadanho -- We are confronted ... / Sabine Himmelsbach -- We have been aware ... / Karin Ohlenschläger -- The winters ... / Katarina Pierre -- Essays and works : Visionary eco-art: next/now/past / Linda Weintraub -- The timeliness of architecture's eco-visionary practices / Amale Andraos -- Eco-visionaries: art and architecture after the anthropocene / Mariana Pestana -- Our place on earth / Sofia Johansson -- Ecodata, ecomedia, eco-aesthetics: technologies of the ecological after the anthropocene / Yvonne Volkart -- Figuring ecologies / Matthew Fuller -- The arts of living at the end of the world / T.J. Demos.