Art and Climate Change

Curators and art historians Dr. Maja Fowkes and Dr. Reuben Fowkes are co-directors of Postsocialist Art Centre (PACT) at the Institute of Advanced Studies, University College London, and co-founders of the Translocal Institute for Contemporary Art, a research centre in Budapest that operates at the intersection between ecological thought and contemporary art. They are co-founders of the Environmental Arts and Humanities Initiative at Central European University and have curated contemporary art and ecology programmes for the Institute of Advanced Studies research streams on Turbulence and Waste (2019–20). They are the authors of several books, including Central and Eastern European Art Since 1950, also in the World of Art series.

• Introduction1 Many Anthropocenes1.1 Geological Records1.2 Scars of Extraction1.3 Crude Oil1.4 Synthetic Environments1.5 Expanses of Monoculture2 Reconfiguring the Geosphere2.1 Soil Reserves2.2 Riverine Ecologies2.3 Marine Permutations2.4 Post-Glacial Landscapes2.5 Golden Age of the Sky3 Floral Collectivism3.1 Vegetal Agency3.2 Botanical Politics3.3 Self-Management of Plants3.4 Plants on the Move3.5 Arboreal Worlds4 Animal Solidarities4.1 Animals in the Museum4.2 Non-Human Persons4.3 Countering Extinction4.4 Political Ornithology4.5 Magnified Natures5 Pluriversal Ecologies5.1 Entangled Terrestrials5.2 Reparative Histories5.3 Green Protocols5.4 Climates of Transformation5.5 Eco-futurismsConclusionFurther Reading

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