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Sustainability in an Imaginary World - Art and the Question of Agency (Paperback)
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Sustainability in an Imaginary World - Art and the Question of Agency (Paperback)
Series: Routledge Studies in Sustainability
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Sustainability in an Imaginary World explores the social agency of
art and its connection to complex issues of sustainability. Over
the past decade, interest in art's agency has ballooned as an
increasing number of fields turn to the arts with ever-expanding
expectations. Yet just as art is being heralded as a magic bullet
of social change, research is beginning to throw cautionary light
on such enthusiasm, challenging the linear, prescriptive,
instrumental expectations such transdisciplinary interactions often
imply. In this, art finds itself at a treacherous crossroads,
unable to turn a deaf ear to calls for help from an increasing
number of ostensibly non-aesthetic fields, yet in answering such
prescriptive urgencies, jeopardizing the very power for which its
help was sought in the first place. This book goes in search of a
way forward, proposing a theory of art aiming to preserve the
integrity of arts practices within transdisciplinary mandates. This
approach is then explored through a series of case studies
developed in collaboration with some of Canada's most prominent
artists, including internationally renowned nature poet Don McKay;
Italian composer and Head of Vancouver New Music, Giorgio
Magnanesi; the renowned Electric Company Theatre, led by Kevin
Kerr; and finally through a largescale multimedia installation
aiming to reimagine the relationship between climate, culture, and
human agency. Sustainability in an Imaginary World will be of great
interest to students and scholars of arts-based research fields,
sustainability studies, and environmental humanities.
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