Climate change is now a mainstream theme in Canadian art GlobeArts
Brett Story made a film about climate change that doesn’t once use the phrase.
Story says she was 'reflecting on my own disinterest in climate change films' in making the The Hottest August.Canadian artists from singers to sculptors are doing the same. From writer Margaret Atwood’s climate fiction, or cli-fi, “MaddAddam” trilogy to an upcoming album from singer/songwriter Grimes, climate change permeates Canadian art.
The challenge is to make work that addresses an inescapable fact of modern life without churning out agitprop.For some, climate change is a new lens through which to look at some old themes.“Where do we as individuals fit with society? Where does society fit with nature?” asks Edmonton poet Alice Major, whose most recent collection is titled “Welcome to the Anthropocene.”
Eventually, that led to work such as “An Unkindness,” an assemblage of what looks like oil-soaked industrial detritus that has shown in Washington’s prestigious Corcoran Gallery.Whatever the inspiration, art isn’t a lecture, said Marcus Youssef, a Vancouver playwright whose one-hander “Dust” has been performed across North America.“ is a perspective that isn’t didactic.
“That’s what art can do – make us both feel alive and also able to see things differently. I think that’s a precondition to being political actors in the world.”“There’s a potential through the arts to connect in an emotional way, in a spiritual way,” said Feuer. “That might be how people might be moved to seek out change, to ask bigger questions.”“Poetry is not a screwdriver. It’s not something you have clearly defined results from.
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