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Prochaine séance du séminaire Esthétique et environnement: Amanda Boetzkes (20 oct. 2022)

 

Première séance : jeudi 20 octobre 2022 – 17:30-19:00

Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, 12 place du Panthéon, 75005 Paris – salle 54

 

Amanda Boetzkes (University of Guelph, Contemporary Art History and Theory)

“Reoriginations of Realism :

Contemporary Inuit Art at the Axis of Myth and Climate Science”

 

Inscriptions à la séance au centre Panthéon :  cliquer ici

 

Abstract :

In this seminar, I consider how futurity has become a site of aesthetic elaboration as a form of realism in contemporary Inuit art and film. I consider Indigenous critiques of environmental apocalypticism and connect these to the work of artists such as Pia Arke, Shuvinai Ashoona and the film collective Isuma. I argue that these artists intervene on their viewership by decelerating time and reoriginating the histories of the circumpolar North. Their aesthetic strategies intervene on the consumption of the imagery, so that instead of witnessing Inuit environmental relations by way of loss in the manner of salvage anthropology, we become absorbed in a time replete with the relations, practices and soma of the Arctic, a time that is not undone by entropy. This alternate mode of experience is integral to the political ecology that animates the Arctic environment as it negotiates the challenges of climate change and global militarism. I consider the aesthetics of contemporary Inuit art as a distinct form of realism that both exposes the phantasms that haunt climate science and at the same time corroborates a decolonial approach to the future worlds of the circumpolar North.

 

Amanda Boetzkes is Professor of Contemporary Art History and Theory at the University of Guelph. Her research focuses on the relationship between perception and representation, theories of consciousness, and ecology. She has analyzed complex human relationships with the environment through the lens of aesthetics, patterns of human waste, and the global energy economy.  She is the author of Plastic Capitalism: Contemporary Art and the Drive to Waste (MIT Press, 2019),  The Ethics of Earth Art (University of Minnesota Press, 2010), and a forthcoming book titled Ecologicity: Vision and the Planetarity of Art. Edited books include Artworks for Jellyfish and Other Others (Noxious Sector, 2022), Heidegger and the Work of Art History (Routledge, 2014), and Art’s Realism in the Post-Truth Era (Edinburgh University Press, 2024). Since 2016, she has been leading a multi-year project titled At The Moraine, which considers modes of experiencing environments in the circumpolar North, with a special focus on the geopolitics of Greenland (Kalaallit Nunaat).

 

 


OpenEdition vous propose de citer ce billet de la manière suivante :
Pierre Fasula (13 octobre 2022). Prochaine séance du séminaire Esthétique et environnement: Amanda Boetzkes (20 oct. 2022). EXeCO. Consulté le 28 avril 2025 à l’adresse https://doi.org/10.58079/onfn


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