Themes of Interruption, Interpretation, and Gathering in Ecologies in Practice
Sponsored by Wilfrid Laurier University Press
Recorded on 07/17/2024
Posted in The Authority File
Episode 393
In the third episode of this four-part series, Amanda White of Western University and Elysia French of Brock University highlight individual chapters and overarching themes in their coedited collection, Ecologies in Practice: Environmentally Engaged Arts in Canada. They first chat about Camille Georgeson-Usher’s chapter—the exploration of the power of gathering in a city garden—and how its reflections on gathering as action carry over as an invitation for engagement and main theme to open the book. Next, they dig into the implications of Genevieve Robertson’s chapter, “Carbon Study: Walking in the Dark,” which details using art to draw attention to ecological loss; one of Genevieve’s pieces also acts as the cover image of Ecologies in Practice. To close, Amanda and Elysia contemplate art’s role in communicating important messages by creating opportunities for interpretation and critical thought.
About the guests:
Elysia French
Assistant Professor, Department of Visual Arts
Brock University
Elysia French is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Visual Arts at Brock University. French is trained as an art historian and studies contemporary art and the environment, with an interest in the visual culture of oil, climate change, and multispecies relationships.
Amanda White
SSHRC Postdoctoral Fellow at the Centre for Sustainable Curating, Department of Visual Art
Western University
Amanda White (she/her) is a white settler artist/scholar currently living and working in Tkaronto/Toronto. She is a SSHRC Postdoctoral Fellow at the Centre for Sustainable Curating in the Department of Visual Art at Western University. Her current work and research is focused on plants, food, and environmental justice. Learn more on Amanda’s website.
Enjoy the conversation? Listen to the rest of the series:
- Exploring Ecologies in Practice and Environmental Humanities
- Environmentally Engaged Arts, Calls to Action, and Canadian Case Studies in Ecologies in Practice
- How Art Changes Culture and the (Interdisciplinary) Future of the Environmental Humanities
Check out our previous series with Wilfrid Laurier University Press:
– Outlining the “Big, Big Tent” of Comics Studies
– The Contemporary Leonard Cohen
– Creative Disruption in Scholarship
– Performing Female Blackness
– Canadian Poetry Today
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