“These industrial environments are so desensitizing in that you, even if you are an animal lover, become complaisantly accepting of the fact that the live beings are only raw materials for mass commodity production. This needs some serious questioning.” These are some of the thoughts of New York Based artist Miru Kim in relation to [...]
Archive of posts filed under the Performance category.
Climate Change Comes to the Theatre: “Greenland” in London’s National Theatre
I have always argued that when environmental issues start being incorporated into mainstream culture, then we stand a chance of some notice being taken. It’s encouraging to note that “Greenland” – a play about climate change – has recently launched at the National Theatre in London. For a review of the play, see this article [...]
Dancing For Conservation at iLAND
The idea of dancing our way to a sustainable future is instantly appealing. Jennifer Monson describes herself as an ‘experimental dance artist’. Her interest is in exploring the use of the human body to explore the dynamic relationship between humans, art, nature and the environment. In order to take her vision further and to support [...]
Lemn Sissay at the Royal Academy in London
Lemn Sissay’s performance video of his poem WHAT IF? was, for me, one of the highlights of the Royal Academy’s current exhibit entitled EARTH – Art of a Changing World. The exhibit “sets out to consider the impact of climate change, and our transition to a new world, on the practice of a broad range [...]
