Jackie Brookner makes “Biosculptures”.
She describes these as ‘living sculptures…plant based systems that clean polluted water, integrating ecological revitalization with the conceptual, metaphorical and aesthetic capacities of sculpture.”
One such project is called “The Gift of Water”. The town of Grossenhain, near Dresden in Germany, built a new public swimming complex in which the water used is [...]
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Sculptures of Living Processes – Jackie Brookner
Fallen Trees Come To Trafalgar Square in “Ghost Forest”
On Monday, November 16th, Angela Palmer’s “Ghost Forest” opens in Trafalgar Square, London. This large and ambitious installation aims to draw attention to the link between deforestation and climate change.
The installation brings to London 10 rain forest tree stumps from a commercially logged, regulated rain forest in Ghana and installs them in Trafalgar Square to [...]
A Monument To Nature Destroyed
Painstakingly over more than a decade, Israeli artist Shai Zakai has created a monument to man’s interaction with his environment and the consequences – overwhelmingly negative – of that interaction.
“Forest Tunes: The Library” is an installation consisting of collected items, photographs, video, text and a book.
The centerpiece of The Library is a collection of items [...]
A Long White Line
The beauty of conceptual art is that it sheds the fixation with the ‘art object’ and embarks on art as the exploration of an idea. Many conceptual artists have taken this further to create meaningful social interventions through their art. Eve Mosher is one such artist.
Last year, she embarked on HighWaterLine – a conceptual art [...]
Mocking Its Own Habitat
In 2006, Mark Dion was commissioned to create an installation for the new Olympic Sculpture Park in Seattle. He installed the “Neukom Vivarium”. He moved a large, fallen hemlock tree from the surrounding area, placed it in the park and built a hi-tech greenhouse-type structure around it. The structure has a watering system, controls temperature [...]
Crash and Burn – Again
The deep recession that hit the world in 2008 may be remembered as one of the greatest missed opportunities for the world’s environmental movement.
