The Potential of the Subtitles
What is gained from having the wisdom of the videos in writing?
Is this just an extra subchapter that takes up space? Was the subtiles a mistake to include in the catalogue?
I wonder.
Subtitles by Jackie Hart.
Conversation with Studio ThinkingHand
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How does the climate crisis affect art and
how does art influence us and help us to understand
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the climate crisis?
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We think the climate crisis is such a complex
and global issue and what it’s asking for
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is really creating new futures and speculating new futures trying to move us out of our human ways.
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How we consider ourselves as humans, how we related to nature.
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What we consider nature, what we consider life.
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Art is a good research tool, with its curious, nuanced approach,
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helping us to relate to and understand such a complex issue.
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Wasn’t art also speculating the future before the climate crisis? What has changed?
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Has the climate crisis made art more aware of the future?
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I think art mirrors the society in which it’s created. Logics change with time, from the past, to now, to the future.
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So the different logics form and inform the ways we express ourselves through this aesthetic dimension.
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What is your concrete focus on the interplay between art and the climate crisis?
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We were specifically looking into how to remove ourselves from the centre with humans in control.
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How do we renegotiate our understanding of Nature, regarding it as a living thing, not an object?
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How do we see it more as a life? How do we ensure that, rather than Nature being the object of our protest,
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how do we listen to voices of other species and how do we relate to these life-forms on their own terms?
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What are the dilemmas, paradoxes or challenges facing art in the time of the climate crisisi?
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Art is almost artificial in the sense that it brings together things that don’t fit.
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It then trys to research things from an asthetic, centrist standpoint, with an open mind.
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As the scientist draws his hypotheses from his imagination, so we need to stimulate our imaginations in the future.
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For future science and scenarios we don’t yet know or think about,
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And how we can learn to relate and listen to things other than ourselves, outside of the human framework.
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How we can develop language and ethics of care towards those other than the human species.
Conversation with Connie Hedegaard
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How does the climate crisis affect art? In what capacity does art affect our understanding of this crisis?
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I think art’s contribution is to maybe show people other values. Because one of the key challenges we are faced with
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is that we can’t just continue business as usual.
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We will still have growth in the 21st century, but it must be a different kind of growth.
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If we’re going going to succeed and democratic societies have the citizens acceptance of such a transformation
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I think it’s important that they can see other values.
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That’s maybe where art comes in without preaching or being ideological.
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And just showing that there are other values than the materialistic ones that we have been used to.
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What are the questions that we should be asking ourselves in relation to art in the future, dealing with the climate crisis?
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That’s a big question and I don’t have the answer I would love some artist to help us find these answers.
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But I think what we need is a public sphere where more visible questions are posed about
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not only why we are here but also what are we here for, what is important.
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What do we want to do together? What do we demand from one another? What kind of responsibility we need?
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I think that maybe also more focus not just on what is quantitatively big and attractive but also the qualitative thing
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Art has the potential to reveal some of the values and give some pictures to that, words and sounds to that.
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So that they maybe can provide us with a language also, to have these kind of discussions.
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Because somehow our language has become more and more diluted, more primitive, one could say.
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And it’s as if some of the words that we need for these transformations seem to be too grand in a way.
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But there I think that where artists have something to offer because that’s exactly what they can do
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to provide us with a different language to embrace different values.
Conversation with Ida Petersen from the magazine ZEIN
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How does the climate crisis influence art and how does art influence us and help us to understand this crisis?
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I think in a way the climate crisis makes us more critical towards various culture phenomena, including art.
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When we visit a gallery or a museum we are are more aware of sustainability.
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Both in its production and how it relates to us.
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I think we are more positive towards art that tells us of the times we are in,
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where sustainability and climate are so important.
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Are there any questions that art must ask itself, process and focus on in relation to the climate crisis?
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Perhaps it should ask itself if it is focusing on the right thing. What should it focus on?
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What is the point and message of this piece?
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I think there would be more focus on climate change if art asked itself what people got out of it
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and what should it do.
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Perhaps, for the sake of his conscience, the artist should ask, I enjoy it but is it sustainable?
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Overall, is there anything you wonder about i the relationship between art and the time defined by climate change?
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I wonder why is doesn’t occupy us more than it does,
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because we talk so much about sustainability or the climate crisis in connection with other things.
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But it seems to be a forgotten factor in art.
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Many artists talk about it without actually doing anything about it themselves. Perhaps because what they do
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is not clear to the public or they think it’s enough to talk about the climate crisis.
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How do you experience the ability of art to create a connection between being young and dealing with the climate crisis?
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I think that what the young need is hope, positive hope.
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That’s where art can do something. Because the heavy document approach can seem negative,
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It’s a way to express themselves. Give vent to their feelings.
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Their fears and anxiety relating to the climate. I think this is a better way than facts and figures.