polyvocality (n.)

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inmyroombymyself:

the inclusion of many voices and vantage points as well as the excavation or retrieval of subjugated knowledges as forms of resistance to dominant knowledges and discourses.

Our house is literally burning, and it is only logical that environmentalists expect the social justice movement to get on the environmental bus. But it is the other way around; the only way we are gong to put out the fire is to get on the social justice bus and heal our wounds, because in the end, there is only one bus.

Paul Hawken, Blessed Unrest

andreazittlau:

Potted Plants 8x8” Oil on wood 2012 

andreazittlau:

Potted Plants 8x8” Oil on wood 2012 

photosynthesis-art:

Olga Ziemska

Stillness in motion

2003
Locally reclaimed willow branches and wire
69” x 155”

(Source: chlorophylla-sfl)

California Dump: Nexus for Ecoart

  

NEXUS FOR ART & ENVIRONMENTAL ACTIVISM:  

RECOLOGY S.F. ARTIST RESIDENCY PROGRAM

1 year ago

Can Art Change the World?

   

I’VE BEEN EXPLORING THE ABOVE QUESTION THROUGH many lenses my entire professional life. From the personal to the political, I’ve worked to learn how art can be an effective means for engagement and enlightenment – all while maintaining the highest artistic integrity. It’s been a challenging, but a very satisfying, journey…

1 year ago

Whoever does not write is written?

Might we be reminded that “our interpretations of the world are constituted through modalities peculiar to our physiology, including binocular vision, vertical posture, bilateral symmetry, apprehension of that portion of the electromagnetic spectrum we call light, and so forth.” How might the world be different if we perceived as compound-eyed insects do (Haraway, 1991) ?

From Russell, C. L. (2005). ‘Whoever does not write is written’: the role of ‘nature’ in post-post approaches to environmental education research. Environmental Education Research, 11(4), 433–443.

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Repression of the ecological unconscious is the deepest root of the collusive madness in industrial society; open access to the ecological unconscious is the path to sanity.

Theodore Roszak, The Voice of the Earth (1992), p. 320

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