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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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