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RESEARCH ARCHIVE

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STANLEY YANKOWSKI,
SMITHSONIAN NATIONAL MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY

Maria Popova, The Marginalian

The mesmerizing photomicroscopy of trees – otherworldly images revealing the cellular structure of wood specimens.

GEORGE PERRY AND JOHN CLARKE

Maria Popova, The Marginalian

Conchology, or, the Natural History of Shells: Stunning 19th-Century Illustrations from the World’s First Pictorial Encyclopedia of Mollusks

IAN CHENG: BOB

The Serpentine

Ian Cheng populated the Serpentine with artificial life in a two-part exhibition, starting with BOB (6th March–22nd April 2018) and continued with Emissaries (24th April–28th May 2018).

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AGNES DENES: TREE MOUNTAIN - A LIVING TIME CAPSULE-11,000 TREES, 11,000 PEOPLE, 400 YEARS, 1992-96

Agnes Denes' online portfolio

A huge manmade mountain measuring 420 meters long, 270 meters wide, 38 meters high and elliptical in shape was planted with eleven thousand trees by eleven thousand people from all over the world.

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AGNES DENES, WHEATFIELD – A CONFRONTATION, 1982

Phoebe Habon, Architectural Digest

In an act of protest against climate change and economic inequality, Denes planted a massive wheatfield in a landfill in downtown Manhattan. Nearly 40 years later her message reverberates with a poignant urgency.

ANA MENDIETA

Artnet

Ana Mendieta was a Cuban-American performance artist, video-artist, and sculptor interested in the relationship between the female body and nature. Her works with photographs and video footage of her own body camouflaged in a natural environment...

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TOMÁS SARACENO'S SOLAR-POWERED HOT AIR BALLOON

Naomi Rea, Artnet

Environmental Artist Tomás Saraceno Successfully Flies a Solar-Powered Hot Air Balloon Over Argentina, Breaking Six World Records

HIMALAYAN MUSEUM AND SUSTAINABLE PARK TURNING TOURIST LITTER INTO ART

Caroline Goldstein, Artnet

A Museum in the Himalayas Has a Solution for the Tons of Trash Climbers Leave on Mount Everest: Turn It Into Art

SPENCER TUNICK, DEAD SEA 8 (2011)

Lorena Muñoz-Alonso, Artnet

Spencer Tunick Revisits Dead Sea Installation to Highlight Environmental Damage

The water levels in the Dead Sea are dropping dramatically.

ANNA ZEMÁNKOVÁ (1908 - 1986)

Christian Berst

Condemned to the silent contemplation of the rising day, astonishing vegetation slowly grew in her: at dawn, this family mother, in a trance, picked strange flowers in thought, that she later made bloom on paper.

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NATALIE JEREMIJENKO, "LETS TEACH FISH TO TEXT"

Jonah Weiner, The New York Times

Four years ago, the Australian-born artist Natalie Jeremijenko stood at the edge of Pier 35 in Downtown Manhattan, trying to start a conversation with some striped bass. Just north of the Manhattan Bridge, she and several collaborators dropped 16 tall buoys into the East River. The buoys were fitted with submersible sensors that monitored water quality and with LEDs that flashed when fish swam by, charting the Piscean passage.

DR ALEXANDRA DAISY GINSBERG

Dr Alexandra Daisy Ginsberg's online portfolio

Dr Alexandra Daisy Ginsberg is an artist examining our fraught relationships with nature and technology. Through artworks, writing, and curatorial projects, Daisy’s work explores subjects as diverse as artificial intelligence, exobiology, synthetic biology, conservation, biodiversity, and evolution, as she investigates the human impulse to “better” the world.

PLAYING NATURE: ALENDA Y. CHANG ON GAMING'S ROLE IN THE CLIMATE CRISIS

The Serpentine, Kay Watson

An interview with Alenda Y. Chang, writer, academic and contributor to Artist Worlds about the relationship between video games and the natural world and the role that play can have in confronting the climate emergency.

CATHARSIS, JAKOB KUDSK STEENSEN 2020

Jakob Kudsk Steensen online portfolio

Catharsis is a large-scale, immersive installation that pulls audiences into a digital simulation of a re-imagined old-growth forest. This imaginary forest has existed undisturbed for hundreds of years, free from human intervention and suffused with birdsong.

MEL CHIN

Mel Chin online portfolio

Mel Chin was born in Houston, Texas in 1951. Chin’s art, which is both analytical and poetic, evades easy classification. Chin also insinuates art into unlikely places, including destroyed homes, toxic landfills, and even popular television, investigating how art can provoke greater social awareness and responsibility.

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MARUJA MALLO

Ortuzar Projects

Born in rural Galicia, Spain in 1902, Mallo moved to Madrid in 1922 to receive art training. She quickly became a central figure in the Generation of ’27, an interdisciplinary group of the Spanish avant-garde that included Salvador Dalí, Federico García Lorca and Luis Buñuel. Mallo, like her contemporaries, was politically engaged in both art and life.

WANGECHI MUTU

Victoria Miro

Exploring and subverting cultural preconceptions of the female body and the feminine, in her works Wangechi Mutu proposes worlds within worlds, populated by powerful hybridised female figures.

MARIA CLARA EIMMART (MAY 27, 1676–OCTOBER 29, 1707)

Maria Popova, Brainpickings

The Astronomical Art of Maria Clara Eimmart: Stunning 17th-Century Drawings of Comets, Planets, and Moon Phases by a Self-Taught Artist and Astronomer.

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LUCHITA HURTADO

The Serpentine

Born in rural Galicia, Spain in 1902, Mallo moved to Madrid in 1922 to receive art training. She quickly became a central figure in the Generation of ’27, an interdisciplinary group of the Spanish avant-garde that included Salvador Dalí, Federico García Lorca and Luis Buñuel. Mallo, like her contemporaries, was politically engaged in both art and life.

SUZANNE ANKER

Suzanne Anker's online portfolio

Suzanne Anker is a Bio Art pioneer, visual artist and theorist working at the intersection of art and the biological sciences. Her practice investigates the ways in which nature is being altered in the 21st century. Concerned with genetics, climate change, species extinction and toxic degradation, she calls attention to the beauty of life and the “necessity for enlightened thinking about nature’s ‘tangled bank’.”

NAVJOT ALTAF

Navjot Altaf's online portfolio

Navjot Altaf, is an artist, currently based in Bastar and Mumbai, India. Over the course of her four-decade career, Navjot has worked in a variety of media, including painting, drawing, photography, sculpture, video, installation, mixed-media, and public art.

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TAI SHANI - UNTITLED HIEROGLYPHS, 2021

The Serpentine

As part of Back to Earth, artist Tai Shani is developing Untitled Hieroglyphs, a film and sound art project emerging from the artist’s research into psychedelics, feminism and myth and unfolding throughout 2021.

AVIVA RAHAMANI

Aviva Rahamani's online portfolio

Pioneering ecological artist Aviva Rahmani has worked at the cutting edge of the avant-garde since she committed to her career in art at the age of nineteen. She has devoted many years of her working life to teaching, inspiring, and leading others through her art to a renewed focus on ecological restoration as artmaking.

BETSY DAMON

The Healing Power of Art and Artists

Betsy Damon is committed to combining art with activism and she feels that her work must have an impact. In the 1970’s she founded an organization called No Limits for Women in the Arts. This national network of women artists, which is still in existence today, embraced the concept that artists and relationships create social and environmental change.

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TAVARES STRACHAN

Tavares Strachan's online portfolio

New York–based artist Tavares Strachan interrogates the narratives, histories, and myths surrounding the Arctic as well as its vulnerability to today’s changing climate.

TORKWASE DYSON

Torkwase Dyson's online portfolio

Torkwase Dyson (b. 1973, Chicago) describes herself as a painter working across multiple mediums to explore the continuity between ecology, infrastructure, and architecture.

CHILDISH GAMBINO - FEELS LIKE SUMMER, 2018

Youtube

“Feels Like Summer” by Childish Gambino

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YAYOI KUSAMA - FLOWERS THAT BLOOM AT MIDNIGHT, 2011

Yayoi Kusama, GOMA

‘Flowers that Bloom at Midnight’ is a series of sculptures, each with its own exuberant colour scheme, on which Yayoi Kusama has been working since 2009.

MARIA THEREZA ALVES

Maria Thereza Alves' online portfolio

The works presented on this website are not alphabetically or chronologically ordered, but rather interrelationally – through ideas and topics. In this sense the website functions more like a living organism not following the traditional methodology of approaching an artist's body of work.

YOKO ONO - I LOVE YOU EARTH, APRIL 2021

The Serpentine

Serpentine has partnered with ClearChannel to display I LOVE YOU EARTH on billboards across a number of notable sites around the country for two weeks in April, coinciding with the internationally-recognised Earth Day and the gradual re-emergence of the public after the latest pandemic restrictions.

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