ABSTRACT

Our world’s climate is changing. The ramifications of the current ecological age and the possibility of habitation in – if not strictly post-apocalyptic – very different living conditions than the present, has spurned a pressing need to address our place in a more-than–human frame. A disjuncture between the urgency for concrete action on climate change and the actions of a political class unconvinced and/or slow to move has catalysed the need for action and collaboration across disciplines. The article draws on several creative projects as a springboard for environmental discourse. Notably, it discusses British artist Kate Pattison’s work on glaciers, Eve Mosher’s High Water Line project, and a work involving a local urban river system. Environmental communication transmitted through artmaking may speak to the problem of inaction in a way that employs soft persuasion and affective poetics. This article intimates artmaking can be a type of activism through enchantment, which has the potential to awaken personal and communities’ interests, and thereby encourage them to consider a more eco-centrically holistic future.

摘要

我们世界的气候正在发生变化。当前生态时代的后果以及居住在与现在非常不同的生活条件（如果不是严格来说是后世界末日的话）的可能性，已经摒弃了在超越人类的框架中解决我们的位置的迫切需要。对气候变化采取具体行动的紧迫性与不相信和/或行动迟缓的政治阶层的行动之间的脱节催生了跨学科采取行动和合作的必要性。这篇文章借鉴了几个创意项目作为环境话语的跳板。值得注意的是，它讨论了英国艺术家凯特帕蒂森的冰川作品，伊芙莫舍的高水线项目，以及一项涉及当地城市河流系统的工作。通过艺术创作传播的环境交流可能会以软说服力和情感诗学的方式来解决无所作为的问题。这篇文章暗示艺术创作可以是一种通过魅力的行动主义，它有可能唤醒个人和社区的兴趣，从而鼓励他们考虑一个更加以生态为中心的整体未来。