reading response

“Aesthetics of Sustainability” – Perhaps the artist’s involvement with the “ecological shortcomings” has more to do with getting down in it, observing it, become sensitive to its calls and breathe a new sense of life and perception than mere aesthetical tactics can. It is almost like a Post Modernist approach in that, we are stuck with this decay and now we recycle it into our living and aesthetic is merely a habit at this point.
I definitely thought the whole entire time I watched Smithson’s “Spiral Jetty” film and Christo’s valley project, what damage they had caused to the very environment they were pointing out. The endless fossil fuels Smithson burned in hauling and digging the rock, the fuel, diesel and oil put in the water, the soil and even in the air.
The new reality: Art as a form of sustainability, Art as the mode of resurrection. “Art as a form of knowledge”, empirical knowledge.
The interview with Basia makes me speechless and then only, inspired.