Invisible Landscapes: Extreme Oil and the Arctic in Experimental Film and Activist Art Practices
Year: 2017
Type: book-chapter
Abstract: This chapter examines the global interconnectedness of the Arctic and the role of climate change and resource extraction in contemporary environmentalist art. The author analyzes the effects of replacing the “natural” with an “industrial sublime” in Ursula Biemann’s Deep Weather (2013). She then considers the application of “modes of intimacy” deployed by the use of opera in Brenda Longfellow’s Dead Ducks (2012) and charts the use of amateur aesthetics and popular culture in The Yes Men: But It’s Not That Polar Bear Thing (2013). These experimental films and videos present images of global warming, climate change, and environmentalism that are not apocalyptic or sentimental, going beyond the spectacular icons of climate change, such as calving and melting glaciers or anthropomorphized melancholic polar bears.
Source: Springer eBooks
Author: Lisa E. Bloom
Institution: University of California, Los Angeles
Language: English
Subfield: Literature and Literary Theory
Field: Arts and Humanities
Domain: Social Sciences
SDG: Climate action
Open Access status: hybrid
OpenAlex ID: W2588023015