“Was not their mistake once more bred of the life of slavery that they had been living?—a life which was always looking upon everything, except mankind, animate and inanimate—‘nature,’ as people used to call it—as one thing, and mankind as another, it was natural to people thinking in this way, that they should try to make ‘nature’ their slave, since they thought ‘nature’ was something outside them” — William Morris


Saturday, January 16, 2016

Two Very Important Ecology Shows in Brooklyn

If you're anywhere near, you must must must go and see:

1. Aqueous Earth at the ISCP. (Where I was talking last week.)

2. Social Ecologies at Industry City.

I haven't spoken about (2) yet, which totally amazed me. The work being done in so many ways massively transcends previous ecological art benchmarks. Sorry to be intense but the recent work by the newer people just blew the one Robert Smithson piece in the exhibition out of the water. Truly. There's this piece by Mark Handelman, which...you know 100% of it was amazing so I'm going to have to explain in more detail. More soon. Just go and see it for now.

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