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Wednesday, October 25, 2017
From Trevor Paglen to Minerva Cuevas, What Artists Are Doing to Help the Environment
www.artsy.net: At an event in Nevada this past Friday, Trevor Paglen was reflecting on American attitudes toward spaceflight. “We think of space like we think of Nevada,” he said. When we dream of colonizing planets and mining asteroids, “we recapitulate the frontier,” extending it to outer space.
I think this is an amazing article. This article points out what people are doing to change perceptions and create a better world. I fully believe that art can not only do this but sometimes it even feels as though art is the only way to do this. So long as that people stop for just a few moments and look at these types of art; emotions that are indescribable fester into you. I received some of these emotions just reading the article and looking at the images. These feeling not only make me want to see change but create change. They make me want to promote it as these artists are. The sad part to this whole thing is that their efforts are somewhat futile. This is because of the capitalism as one artist was commenting on. Capitalism takes art away and ignores it. This can be seen in schools as they already don’t have any art being taught but also, budgets for what little art they do manage to have are being decreased. It is reaching the point where art is being shared, taught and experienced through volunteer groups that either go to schools, bring kids to facilities, or just create art. They do this with very little money though. The world is driving for other things, so art is being lost, trampled on, and hidden or even taken away. One example of hate against art, and by a government even, is Ai Weiwei in creating active art which the Chinese government didn’t like. It seems that the only people who still experience art are those who are artists or those who may know artists with the exception of entertainment. Art can be used for so much as this article points out but yet we are losing it too. I fully support what these artists are doing and want to see much, much more of this art and all art.
I love that these artists are changing the world through their art. I am particularly impressed by the diversity of projects. Each artist, attacks their singular issue so succinctly. In particular, I really like the calendar idea because it is so effective. Rather than a year or a day, when our timeline is placed on the scale of 5,000 years it makes me feel so insignificant. The calendar’s use of relative time, shows how much time we have left. It puts an imminent measurable effect on climate change, for that reason it is so effective. The project’s combination of art and science, by interpreting scientific data and expressing it in a visual form, adds an element of emotional impact. On a larger level, the project reminds me of Native American mythology, and bringing awareness to the idea that the Earth is living and finite.
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I think this is an amazing article. This article points out what people are doing to change perceptions and create a better world. I fully believe that art can not only do this but sometimes it even feels as though art is the only way to do this. So long as that people stop for just a few moments and look at these types of art; emotions that are indescribable fester into you. I received some of these emotions just reading the article and looking at the images. These feeling not only make me want to see change but create change. They make me want to promote it as these artists are. The sad part to this whole thing is that their efforts are somewhat futile. This is because of the capitalism as one artist was commenting on. Capitalism takes art away and ignores it. This can be seen in schools as they already don’t have any art being taught but also, budgets for what little art they do manage to have are being decreased. It is reaching the point where art is being shared, taught and experienced through volunteer groups that either go to schools, bring kids to facilities, or just create art. They do this with very little money though. The world is driving for other things, so art is being lost, trampled on, and hidden or even taken away. One example of hate against art, and by a government even, is Ai Weiwei in creating active art which the Chinese government didn’t like. It seems that the only people who still experience art are those who are artists or those who may know artists with the exception of entertainment. Art can be used for so much as this article points out but yet we are losing it too. I fully support what these artists are doing and want to see much, much more of this art and all art.
I love that these artists are changing the world through their art. I am particularly impressed by the diversity of projects. Each artist, attacks their singular issue so succinctly. In particular, I really like the calendar idea because it is so effective. Rather than a year or a day, when our timeline is placed on the scale of 5,000 years it makes me feel so insignificant. The calendar’s use of relative time, shows how much time we have left. It puts an imminent measurable effect on climate change, for that reason it is so effective. The project’s combination of art and science, by interpreting scientific data and expressing it in a visual form, adds an element of emotional impact. On a larger level, the project reminds me of Native American mythology, and bringing awareness to the idea that the Earth is living and finite.
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