by art.earth | Nov 29, 2018 | Essays & other writing
From brainpickings… The Magic of Moss and What It Teaches Us About the Art of Attentiveness to Life at All Scales “Attention without feeling,” Mary Oliver observed in her magnificent memoir of love and loss, “is only a report.” In Gathering Moss: A Natural and...
by art.earth | Nov 26, 2018 | Essays & other writing
from BrainPickings Walt Whitman saw trees — “so innocent and harmless, yet so savage” — as a wellspring of wisdom on being rather than seeming. “When we have learned how to listen to trees,” Hermann Hesse exulted in his love letter to our arboreal companions, “then...
by art.earth | Nov 16, 2018 | Essays & other writing
From Nautilus… When did you realize you were a machine? A fancy machine, for sure. But one whose parts and operations can be described like the components of a computer. I remember a day in 2012 when this thought pierced me to the bone. I was in the lab of John...
by art.earth | Nov 12, 2018 | Essays & other writing, Member post, News
Posthuman Spiritualities in Contemporary Performance This book provides an interpretative analysis of the notion of spirituality through the lens of contemporary performance and posthuman theories. The book examines five performance/artworks: The Artist is Present...
by art.earth | Nov 12, 2018 | Essays & other writing
from Chris Fremantle Artists have been valuing nature probably since we first marked the wall of a cave or whistled like a bird – artists have always rendered nature visible. Artists valuing nature have explored human ‘value’ (Monet’s Haystacks and Turner’s Rain,...
by art.earth | Oct 26, 2018 | Essays & other writing
What lies beneath, an article by David Spratt and Ian Dunlop takes a new look at climate change. The article does not deliver new facts and figures, but instead provides a new perspective on the existential risks associated with anthropogenic global warming. It is the...
