Abstract:Printmaking has a natural connection to popular culture and prints have traditionally explored the urgent issues of their respective times. From Jose Posada to Francisco Goya, printmakers have used their medium to bring about political or social change, some explicitly and others more subtly. There is a crop of current printmakers who build upon this history by investigating interactions and connections between the natural world and the built environment, highlighting issues of ecology, technology, and industry. Ecological disasters, natural resource extraction, and the excesses of this current place and time become fodder for their cross-disciplinary artworks. Dürer envisioned the apocalypse ushered in by horsemen; contemporary artists echo this anxiety reimagined as repercussions of our own technological advancements.This panel will bring together 3 interdisciplinary artists who blend their artistic practice with activism to imagine post-apocalyptic hybrids of industry and the natural world. They will speak to their vision of a future ecology in which natural and synthetic become intertwined, some gleefully blurring the lines between the organic and plastic, others with much more trepidation. Hybridization makes sense in the context of the vast intertwined network of ecology, leading to artworks that conflate ‘the natural’ and ‘the artificial’, art and activism, and interdisciplinary media. The artists selected for this panel will speak to their interests in other disciplines as diverse as ecology, technology, and film.
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