Art / Switch invites innovative voices to share the latest research and experiences in the field of Art and Climate Action. With this Special Collection we tie together the interdisciplinary knowledge of the conference series [re]Framing the Arts: A Sustainable Shift, organised in collaboration with the Amsterdam School for Heritage, Memory and Material Culture (AHM) at the University of Amsterdam and Nyenrode Business University.
The objective of this publication is to create a sector-wide platform to discuss and resolve the environmental impact of the arts, including insights from the Art Market, Museum Collections, Conservation Labs, Art Transport and Insurance Industries, Architecture and Design, Artists’ Studio Practices, Collections Care and Storage Facilities. Starting with institutional approaches to sustainability—museum governance, social sustainability, and museum and storage architecture—the topics continue on to sustainable exhibition practices with case studies, research, and thought experiments by the sector's leading specialists. Narrowing in on environmentally conscious art transport including sustainable packaging solutions, circular economies, and solutions for sustainable climate systems, we finally dive into sustainable materials of the present and future, including the Life Cycle Assessment of materials and successful collaborations between scientists and art professionals to assure sector-wide implementation of new research and methods.
Editorial Team: Pierre-Jean Desemerie (Bard Graduate Center); Bart Jansen (Nyenrode Business University, University of Amsterdam, Leiden University, Airlangga University); Johanna Rietveld; Anika Schroter; and Joanna Wendel (PhD, Harvard University).
Image: Michael Wang, Hypericum densiflorum, 2019. Digital Photograph. From the series 'Extinct in New York'. © Michael Wang. Courtesy of the artist.
Special Collections
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                Beyond Text: Cross-disciplinary Perspectives on Textuality 
            
        
            
                Visual Rhetorics of Humour:  The Formation and Dissemination of Stereotypes through Cartoons and Memes 
            
        
            
                Diversity and Competition within the Latin Church: The Secular-Mendicant Controversy and its Long Aftermath (13th–20th Centuries) 
            
        
            
                Thinking the Political: Theory, Literature, Practice 
            
        
            
                Poetry Off the Page: Intersecting Practices and Traditions in British Poetry Performance 
            
        
            
                Humour as a Human Right 
            
        
            
                Cultural Heritage Data for Research: Opening Museum Collections, Project Data and Digital Images for Research, Query and Discovery 
            
        
            
                Literature as Imaginary Archive: Ephemera and Modern Literary Production 
            
        
            
                Caliban's Mirror: Reflections of James Joyce and Oscar Wilde 
            
        
            
                Cultural Representations of Machine Vision 
            
        
            
                The Public Curatorship of the Medieval Past 
            
        
            
                Medieval Minds and Matter 
            
        
            
                Representing the Medieval in Popular Culture: Remembering the Angevins 
            
        
            
                The Politics and History of Menstruation: Contextualising the Scottish Campaign to End Period Poverty 
            
        
            
                Production Archives 03: Archival Practices 
            
        
            
                Production Archives 02: Production Contexts 
            
        
            
                Production Archives 01: Puppets for Action 
            
        
            
                Representing Classical Music in the Twenty-First Century 
            
        
            
                The Pathological Body: European Literary and Cultural Perspectives in the Age of Modern Medicine 
            
        
            
                Binary Modernisms: Re/Appropriations of Modernist Art in the Digital Age 
            
        
            
                Local and Universal in Irish Literature and Culture 
            
        
            
                Reading in Ruins: Exploring Posthumanist Narrative Studies 
            
        
            
                The Language of Perspective 
            
        
            
                Nancy Astor, Public Women and Gendered Political Culture in Interwar Britain 
            
        
            
                The Working-Class Avant-Garde 
            
        
            
                Colonialities in Dispute: Discourses on Colonialism and Race in the Spanish State 
            
        
            
                Powering the Future: Energy Resources in Science Fiction and Fantasy 
            
        
            
                Writers and Intellectuals on Britain and Europe, 1918–2018 
            
        
            
                Literature, Law and Psychoanalysis 
            
        
            
                Muslims in the Media 
            
        
            
                Encounters between Asian and Western Art in the 20th and 21st centuries: a liberating influence for Asia? 
            
        
            
                Waste: Disposability, Decay, and Depletion 
            
        
            
                Pride Revisited: Cinema, Activism and Re-Activation 
            
        
            
                New Approaches to Late Medieval Court Records 
            
        
            
                Utopian Art and Literature from Modern India 
            
        
            
                Right-Wing Populism and Mediated Activism: Creative Responses and Counter-Narratives 
            
        
            
                Representing Climate: Local to Global 
            
        
            
                Cultivating Spheres: Agriculture, Technical Communication, and the Publics 
            
        
            
                Freedom After Neoliberalism 
            
        
            
                The Medieval Brain 
            
        
            
                Remaking Collections 
            
        
            
                New Approaches to Medieval Water Studies 
            
        
            
                Imaginaries of the Future 01: Bodies and Media 
            
        
            
                Imaginaries of the Future 02: Politics, Poetics, Place 
            
        
            
                Imaginaries of the Future 03: Utopia at the Border 
            
        
            
                Postcolonial Perspectives in Game Studies 
            
        
            
                Station Eleven and Twenty-First-Century Writing 
            
        
            
                #Agreement20 
            
        
            
                What’s Left? Marxism, Literature and Culture in the 21st Century 
            
        
            
                New Voices in Jewish-American Literature 
            
        
            
                Authors, Narratives, and Audiences in Medieval Saints’ Lives 
            
        
            
                From TV To Film 
            
        
            
                American Literature & the Transnational Marketplace 
            
        
            
                Mnemosyne 
            
        
            
                Healing Gods, Heroes and Rituals in the Graeco-Roman World 
            
        
            
                The Abolition of the University