[im] patterns el‘adás

[János Sugár]

t. hallgatók,

	a Patterns Lectures keretében
http://www.erstestiftung.org/patterns-lectures/20162017-2/selected-courses/#eindeutiger-bezeichnerIV

nov. 17-én, csütörtökön 10 órától az Intermédia el‘adótermében

Maja és Reuben Fowkes
(Translocal, Budapest www.translocal.org)

tart el‘adást

Ecology versus Artwash: the Environmental Politics of Climate Change Art

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This presentation considers the trend for 
financial and political elites, who soar above 
the immediate effects of climate change while 
contributing to it disproportionately, to take up 
ecological causes, often transforming them 
through their interventions into platforms for 
fashion, entertainment and exclusivity. It poses 
the question as to what happens when states that 
are heavily implicated in the structures of the 
global carbon economy chose to embrace 
environmental art as a vehicle for self-promotion 
and what space remains for artists and curators 
to articulate critical ecological visions.

Maja Fowkes and Reuben Fowkes are art historians, 
curators and co-directors of the Translocal 
Institute for Contemporary Art in Budapest. They 
hold PhDs from University College London and 
Essex University respectively, and work on the 
art history of Eastern Europe since 1945, 
environmental art history, as well as 
contemporary art and ecological thought. Recent 
books include Maja Fowkes's The Green Bloc: Neo- 
Avant garde Art and Ecology under Socialism (CEU 
Press, 2015) and River Ecologies: Contemporary 
Art and Environmental Humanities on the Danube 
(Translocal Institute, 2015). Reuben Fowkes is an 
editor of Third Text, and currently preparing a 
special issue on East European art of the 1960s 
and 70s. Recent and forthcoming publications 
include journal articles on the Danube and 
contemporary art in Geohumanities and on the 
(de)institutionalisation of the Hungarian 
neo-avant-garde in Tate Papers, as well as a 
chapter on alternative art of the 1980s in 
Eastern Europe for the Afterall Exhibition 
Histories series. Their curatorial projects 
include the Experimental Reading Room (2014 -6), 
the River School (2013-15) and the exhibition 
Walking without Footprints (2016). They recently 
launched the Environmental Arts and Humanities 
Initiative at Central European University, where 
they teach a course on Visual Cultures of the 
Anthropocene.
Suggested Reading
Gregory Sholette, Collectivism after Modernism: 
The Art of Social Imagination after 1945, 2007
Jussi Parikka, A Geology of Media, 2015
Maja Fowkes, The Green Bloc: Neo-avantgarde Art 
and Ecology under Socialism, 2015
TJ Demos, Decolonising Nature: Contemporary Art 
and the Politics of Ecology, 2016
Mel Evans, Artwash: Big Oil and the Arts, 2016
Yates McKee, Strike Art: Contemporary Art and the Post-Occupy Condition, 2015
Will Bradley and Charles Esche, Art and Social Change: A Critical Reader, 2007


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