In the Time of Art with Policy
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Robert Gordon University
- Unit of assessment
- 32 - Art and Design: History, Practice and Theory
- Output identifier
- Fremantle_2
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- C - Chapter in book
- DOI
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10.4324/9780429450471-27
- Book title
- The Routledge Companion to Art in the Public Realm
- Publisher
- Routledge
- ISBN
- 9780429450471
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- Month of publication
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- Year of publication
- 2020
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
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- Interdisciplinary
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- Additional information
- This chapter and associated Timeline explores the issue of time in the works of pioneers of art and ecology, Helen Mayer Harrison (1927-2018) and Newton Harrison (b.1932), known as ‘the Harrisons’. The Timeline juxtaposes global environment policy with the works of the Harrisons over the period from the early 1960s through to the present. Building on The Artist as Leader research, the purpose is to highlight that artists work in the context of public policy. The chapter situates the emergence of the Harrisons’ practice in the context of Deep Ecology and ecocentrism in the late 1960s and 1970s, as well as of recent research into the developing role of artists work focused by climate breakdown.
The chapter focuses on the means by which the Harrisons draw on public policy (e.g. The Stern Review) and address particular issues (e.g. ‘adaptation’), but in each case offer a distinctive framing. The chapter juxtaposes time as it is articulated in the Harrisons works and in global environmental policy, finding aspects of similarity as well as difference. Both address the issue of time, but where global environmental policy to date has used human need in establishing timeframes, the Harrisons mix human and more-than-human timeframes. This is key to their overall aim to establish ecosystemic wellbeing as the overarching priority for all human decision-making.
Other authors in the Companion include artists Raqs Media Collective, Professor Iain Biggs, internationally acknowledge artist Betsy Damon, and environmental philosopher Beth Carruthers.
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