Ambient Aesthetics and the Spirit of Disintegration in Ecological Art
2022
Hochschulschrift
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This dissertation examines the philosophical and cultural issues surrounding a set ofecological artworks since the late 1970s. The four chapters present case studies of workssituated around places and events in Rural England (the Suffolk Coast and the WestPennine Moors) and Ukraine (Chernobyl, Pripyat, and the “Zone of Exclusion”), all ofwhich adopt the temporal and spatial distortions characteristic of “ambient art” (oftenreferred to as “slow art”). The major works highlighted across the four chapters include:W.G. Sebald’s The Rings of Saturn, Brian Eno’s On Land, Mark Fisher and JustinBarton’s On Vanishing Land, Richard Skelton’s Landings, Peter Cusack’s Sounds fromDangerous Places, Jacob Kirkegaard’s 4 Rooms, and Michael Marder and AnaisTondeur’s The Chernobyl Herbarium: Fragments of an Exploded Consciousness. Theaims of employing ambience as a mode of ecological thinking in these works is revealedto be a response to cultural pessimism and deep fears about the contemporary climatecrisis (dubbed the “spirit of disintegration”). Rather than promoting ideological ormoralistic dictums pertaining to destruction and conservation, works foregrounded bythis dissertation adopt anxiety and environmental decay as core aspects of their aestheticprogram, revealing the strategies of art’s response to the ever-transforming world and thehuman subject’s position and agency within it.
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Ambient Aesthetics and the Spirit of Disintegration in Ecological Art
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Autor/in / Beteiligte Person: | Spencer, Daniel Gerald |
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Veröffentlichung: | 2022 |
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