I am very interested in your blog and the issues you address and was curious to find out what kind of response you are having, my partner and I are developing a project on the environment and wanted to particpate in your blog, but we do not find any comments from anybody are we not doing the right thing? or is the world so apathetic, includinf the art world? if it is the case what can we do to help spread awareness? this exhibition has been highly publiicized....
The arts have a long tradition of engagement with issues in both the socio-political and environmental spheres. Art reflects contemporary and historical developments, challenges dominant paradigms, and asks key questions, raising awareness of powerful and controversial topics by highlighting both their essentials and their complexities. As a natural development of this tradition, many artists have inevitably addressed and continue to address climate change, a subject which with ever-greater urgency demands immediate and comprehensive action, and which promises dramatic changes for all of humanity, whether we face it successfully or not.
But is it possible to successfully apprehend and work with an issue as complex as climate change from an artistic, non-scientific angle? What role does and can art play in the all-pervasive challenge of climate change? Or conversely, is the widespread attention given to climate change today, with events like the 2009 UN Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen, merely providing artists an exotic and lively arena within which to work, with lucrative results?
We here encourage you to read about and discuss which role art as or will get in the increasing attention emerging around climate change.
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