Project description
Contemporary art and the infrastructures of the Anthropocene
As climate change intensifies in step with global industrial expansion, it is important to understand how culture is related to the systems driving it. Supported by the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions programme, the ECOARTOPS project is developing a framework to analyse how contemporary art is related with the industrial systems driving the Anthropocene. The research focus is on the period since 2000 when environmental crises have intensified alongside the rise of digital infrastructures. It will explore how artistic practices intersect with extractive, logistical and financial systems to show how art incorporates the tools and processes that exacerbate climate change. Ultimately, ECOARTOPS will shed light on how contemporary art can serve as a lens on global environmental transformation.
Objective
This project develops and applies an interdisciplinary method to examine how contemporary art structurally contends with the industrial operations driving the Anthropocene. Since the Anthropocene was defined in 2000 to denote human impacts on the global environment, climate records have continued to be broken. Over this period between specification and crisis, contemporary art has increasingly incorporated materials and processes exacerbating the climate crisis, such as geological mapping software. By examining this deep, functional bond between contemporary art and the Anthropocene, this project will demonstrate that art history has a unique role in responding to one of the most urgent global priorities, identified in the UN Sustainable Development Goals as Goal 13: Climate Action. The main goal of the project is thus to establish a meeting point for art history, ecocritical media theory, the environmental humanities, and political economy. The main deliverables of the project are: 1 method chapter, 3 main chapters (and 2 related journal articles), a compact exhibition, and a book proposal.
The objectives of this project are methodological and historical. It develops a method for conceptualising how contemporary art is structurally and functionally bound to industrial processes driving climate change. Drawing on ecocritical media theory and political economy, the project theorises operational ecomedia as the medial, ecological, social and technical functions that link together land, labour, and resources. The historical objective is to apply this method to 3 case studies to reveal how contemporary art becomes enmeshed with 3 key industries driving the Anthropocene: extraction, logistics, and finance. Focusing on the period since 2000 illuminates how international artistic practice is enmeshed with, and challenges, these operational developments. Several well-defined outcomes will be disseminated to academic and non-expert audiences.
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HORIZON.1.2 - Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA)
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1010 Wien
Austria
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