Artistic visions of the Anthropocene North: climate change and nature in art

Cover......Page 1
Half Title......Page 2
Series Information......Page 3
Title Page......Page 4
Copyright Page......Page 5
Dedication......Page 6
Table of contents......Page 8
List of Plates......Page 10
List of Figures......Page 12
Contributors......Page 14
Introduction: Artistic Visions of the Anthropocene North: Climate Change and Nature in Art......Page 16
 Nordic Landscapes......Page 17
 Art Interacting with Science......Page 19
 Changing Scientific Narratives......Page 21
 Media and Blurred Boundaries between Nature and the Human......Page 23
 Notes......Page 25
Part I Interaction between Art and Science......Page 28
 1 Anthropocene Beginnings: Entanglements of Art and Science in Danish Art and Archaeology 1780–1840......Page 30
  Dolmens and a Savage Europa......Page 33
  Dolmens in Legends of Untouched Nature and Beautiful Man......Page 39
  Dolmens in Dramatic, Contemporary Landscapes......Page 42
  Dilapidated Dolmens from an Early Time......Page 46
  Entanglement of the Human with Nature......Page 48
  Notes......Page 50
 2 A Montage of Notes from Svalbard: Mediating the Arctic through Artistic Research......Page 56
  The Arctic......Page 57
  The Figure of the Guide: Mediating the Open Terrain......Page 59
  Svalbard......Page 60
  The Landscape......Page 62
  Artists as Mediators of Associations......Page 64
  Anthropology......Page 65
  Concluding Remarks......Page 68
  Notes......Page 69
Part II Changing Narratives of the Anthropocene and the North......Page 72
 3 Northern Landscape and the Anthropocene: A Long View......Page 74
  Early Modern Anthropocene......Page 75
  Modern Anthropocene......Page 81
  Contemporary Anthropocene......Page 82
  Notes......Page 88
 4 “We All Have to Live by What We Know”: Activating Memoryscapes in the North Baffin Inuit Drawing Collection to Understand Arc......Page 91
  Capitalocene and the Double Impact of a Colonial Modernity in the Arctic......Page 95
  Inuit Memoryscapes and the North Baffin Drawings......Page 97
  Contemporary Research – Place Names, Environment, and Inuit Traditional Knowledge......Page 100
  North Baffin Drawings and the Marketplace for Inuit Art and Inuit Knowledge......Page 101
  From Memoryscapes to Place Names......Page 105
  Notes......Page 106
Part III Media and Blurred Boundaries between Nature and the Human......Page 126
  Point of View......Page 128
  Looking at Landscapes......Page 130
  Imagining Nature......Page 134
  Staging Nature......Page 135
  Notes......Page 138
 6 Toril Johannessen’s In Search of Iceland Spar: Truth and Illusion in the Anthropocene......Page 141
  Toril Johannessen’s Method......Page 143
  In Search of Iceland Spar......Page 144
  Iceland Spar and Its Media Ecology......Page 148
  Iceland Spar and the Anthropocene......Page 151
  The Arctic Illusion......Page 152
  Seeking Truth in the Anthropocene......Page 155
  Notes......Page 156
 7 From within the Porous Body: Modes of Engagement in Björk’s Biophilia Album......Page 159
  Theoretical Perspectives: The Biophilia Hypothesis and the Porosity of Vibrant Matter......Page 161
  Relationality in Björk’s Biophilia Album......Page 164
  “Náttúra”: Ecological Perspectives and the Icelandic Context......Page 174
  The Human as Scale and Medium......Page 176
  Notes......Page 181
Bibliography......Page 185
Index......Page 198
Plates......Page 110