The Sustainability Series:Creating Visual Language for SustainabilityThrough Ecological Art

Sustainability;Environmentalism;Art;Ecology;Eco‐Psychology;Urban Agriculture;School of Art & Design

Lieber, AshleyBreck, James ;

University of Michigan

关键词: Sustainability;    Environmentalism;    Art;    Ecology;    Eco‐Psychology;    Urban Agriculture;    School of Art & Design;   

Others  :  https://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/handle/2027.42/77496/2010_Lieber_MFA_Thesis.pdf?sequence=1&isAllowed=y

瑞士|英语

来源: The Illinois Digital Environment for Access to Learning and Scholarship

【 摘 要 】

The Sustainability Series: Creating Visual Language for Sustainability Though Ecological Art is an  interdisciplinary calling to define sustainability through visual culture.  The artist, informed by  environmentalism, asks the following questions: What is sustainability? What does it look like?  Why is it so important? How can it be experienced?  With contemporary sculpture at the  forefront, three tiers of creative work are presented that provide visual, tactile, and edible  experiences.   Each tier leads into the other as a series of sculptural installations and events: an  ongoing aquatic ecosystem in the artist’s studio that produces edibles, and in turn is harvested  in ;;An Eco‐Art Harvest Event: A Simple Salad Social’; a functional ecologically designed  hydroponic garden on the wall of a restaurant that the artist teaches the owner how to sustain;  and a gallery exhibition of sculptural works in dialogue that question what it is to sustain a  mood, a feeling, a living organism, and the notion of self in the urban environment.   The series  of works provoke ideas about the intersection of art, ecology, eco‐psychology and urban  agriculture while encouraging the viewer to make the connection between personal and  ecological health.