The Routledge Companion to Contemporary Art, Visual Culture, and Climate Change

Book Launch:

The Routledge Companion to Contemporary Art, Visual Culture, and Climate Change
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Friday, April 2, from 10:30am-12:30pm PST

We are very excited to host a virtual book launch with editors TJ Demos, Emily Eliza Scott, Subhankar Banerjee and authors Macarena Gómez-Barris, Lucy R. Lippard, Nomusa Makhubu, and Julie Sze. 

To learn more about this stellar line-up, you can find more information below the poster.

NO REGISTRATION REQUIRED — ACCESS WEBINAR USING LINK:

https://uoregon.zoom.us/j/97125117322

Hosted by the Center for Environmental Futures and its new Pacific Northwest Just Futures Institute for Racial and Climate Justice (University of Oregon) and the Center for Creative Ecologies (UC Santa Cruz).

Speakers

• Editors:
  • TJ Demos, Patricia and Rowland Rebele Endowed Chair in Art History and Visual Culture, and Director of the Center for Creative Ecologies, UC Santa Cruz.
    • TJ Demos is Patricia and Rowland Rebele Endowed Chair in the Department of the History of Art and Visual Culture, University of California, Santa Cruz, and Director of its Center for Creative Ecologies. He researches the intersection of visual culture, radical politics, and political ecology—particularly where they oppose racial and colonial capitalism—and is the author of several books, including Beyond the World’s End: Arts of Living at the Crossing (Duke, 2020); Decolonizing Nature: Contemporary Art and Political Ecology (Sternberg, 2016); and Against the Anthropocene: Visual Culture and Environment Today, (Sternberg, 2017). He co-edited The Routledge Companion on Contemporary Art, Visual Culture, and Climate Change (2021), was a Getty Research Institute Fellow (Spring 2020), and directed the Mellon-funded Sawyer Seminar research project Beyond the End of the World (2019-21). He is presently working on a new book on radical futurisms.
  • Emily Eliza Scott, Asst Prof. of History of Art and Architecture & Environmental Studies, University of Oregon
    • Emily Eliza Scott is an interdisciplinary scholar, artist, and former park ranger focused on contemporary art and design practices that engage pressing (political) ecological issues, often with the intent to actively transform real-world conditions. Currently a joint professor in the History of Art and Architecture & Environmental Studies at the University of Oregon, her essays have appeared in Art Journal, Art Journal Open, American Art, Third Text, The Avery Review, Field, and Cultural Geographies as well as multiple edited volumes and online journals. She is coeditor of Viscosity: Mobilizing Materialities (UMN Architecture, 2019) and Critical Landscapes: Art, Space, Politics (UC Press, 2015) and, at present, is developing a monograph on art that tracks environmental violence as it is writ into land, air, and water. She is also a core participant in two long-term, collaborative art projects: the Los Angeles Urban Rangers (2004-) and World of Matter (2011-).
  • Subhankar Banerjee, Lannan Foundation Endowed Chair and Professor of Art & Ecology, and Director of the Center for Environmental Arts and Humanities, University of New Mexico
    • Subhankar Banerjee is an artist, writer, and conservationist. He works closely with Indigenous Gwich’in and Iñupiat community members to protect biological nurseries and to defend the human rights of Indigenous peoples in the Arctic. Editor of Arctic Voices: Resistance at the Tipping Point (2013), he was most recently co-host (with US Senator Tom Udall) of the UNM Biodiversity Webinar Series (2020), co-curator (with Josie Lopez) of Species in Peril Along the Rio Grande (2019), and convener of the last oil: a multispecies justice symposium (2018). Banerjee is Lannan Foundation Endowed Chair and a professor of Art & Ecology at the University of New Mexico, where he serves as the founding director of both the Center for Environmental Arts and Humanities, and the Species in Peril Project.
• Authors:
  • Macarena Gómez-Barris, Founding Director Global South Center, Pratt Institute (Chairperson SSCS)
    • Macarena Gómez-Barris is a scholar and writer who works at the intersections of art, environment, feminist-cuir politics, and decolonial theory and praxis. She is the author of four books, Where Memory Dwells: Culture and State Violence in Chile (2009), The Extractive Zone: Social Ecologies and Decolonial Perspectives (2017), Beyond the Pink Tide: Art and Political Undercurrents in the Américas (2018), and Towards a Sociology of a Trace (2010, with Herman Gray). She is completing a new book on what she terms the colonial Anthropocene, At the Sea’s Edge: Liquidity Beyond Colonial Extinction (Forthcoming Duke University Press 2022). She is Founding Director of the Global South Center (org) and Chairperson of Department of Social Science and Cultural Studies at Pratt Institute, Brooklyn.
  • Lucy R. Lippard
    • Lucy R. Lippard is a writer, activist, sometime curator, and author of twenty-five books on contemporary art, cultural studies, and local history, most recently: Undermining: A Wild Ride through Land Use, Politics, and Art in the Changing West and Pueblo Chico: Land and Lives in Galisteo Since 1814. She is co-founder of various activist artists groups and lives in Galisteo, New Mexico, where she edits the monthly newsletter, volunteers with the Fire Department, and serves on the Water Board.
  • Nomusa Makhubu, Assc. Prof. of Art History and Deputy Dean of Transformation in Humanities, University of Cape Town
    • Nomusa Makhubu is an Associate Professor in Art History and Deputy Dean of Transformation in Humanities at the University of Cape Town. In 2017, she was also a UCT-Harvard Mandela fellow at the Hutchins Centre for African and African American Research, Harvard University. Recognising the need for mentorship, collaborative practice and socially responsive arts, she founded the Creative Knowledge Resources project in Cape Town. She co-edited a Third Text special issue: “The Art of Change” (2013) and co-curated with Nkule Mabaso the international exhibition, Fantastic, in 2015 and The stronger we become in 2019 at the 58th Venice Biennale in Italy.
  • Julie Sze, Prof. of American Studies, UC Davis
    • Julie Sze is Professor and the Founding Chair of American Studies at UC Davis. Sze’s first book, Noxious New York: The Racial Politics of Urban Health and Environmental Justice (MIT Press), won the 2008 John Hope Franklin Publication Prize, awarded annually to the best published book in American Studies. Her second book is called Fantasy Islands: Chinese Dreams and Ecological Fears in an Age of Climate Crisis (University of California Press, 2015). She is editor of Sustainability: Approaches to Environmental Justice and Social Power (NYU Press: 2018). Her most recent book, Environmental Justice in a Moment of Danger (UC Press: 2020) is part of the American Studies Now: Critical Histories of the Present series.