Representing nature: art and climate change
Representing nature: art and climate change
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代表自然：艺术与气候变化
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2010
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M. Miles
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气候变化现在是一个既定的科学事实，应对它可能需要消费和经济组织的重大转变。一个关键的问题是如何通过个体意识的调节或转变来实现这些变化。意识转变可能发生的手段之一是文化工作--包括艺术和文学的生产和接受。但是，表现气候变化的艺术是否能使问题远离或正常化，或者新的艺术种类是否能构建新的方式来观察或干预导致全球变暖的条件和系统？本文考虑了最近在英国和美国举办的关于环境和气候变化问题的艺术展览。在此之前，本文总结了地理学家最近在艺术方面的相关工作。本文以环保主义艺术为例，初步区分了以戏剧性形象表现气候变化的艺术与新兴的实际干预倾向。它认为艺术可能有助于态度的转变，但想知道作为艺术的干预是否是另一种表现形式，以及艺术是否不可避免地与它所解决的任何问题保持距离。这是一个无法解决的难题：真实的总是以文化为媒介，与文化保持距离，然而艺术仍然可以引起人们对各种条件及其所包含的内在矛盾的注意。
Climate change is now an established scientific fact, and dealing with it may require significant shifts in consumption and economic organization. A key question is how these changes can be achieved, by regulation or shifts of consciousness on the parts of individuals. Among the means by which a shift of awareness might occur is cultural work — including the production and reception of art and literature. But does art which represents climate change distance or normalize the problem, or can new kinds of art construct new ways in which to see or intervene in the conditions and systems which produce global warming? The article considers recent exhibitions of art dealing with environmental and climate change issues in the UK and USA. Before that, the article summarizes aspects of recent relevant work on art by geographers. Looking at cases of environmentalist art, the article initially differentiates art representing climate change in dramatic images from an emerging tendency to practical intervention. It argues that art may contribute to a shift in attitudes, but wonders whether intervention-as-art is in its way another form of representation, and whether art inevitably distances whatever problems it addresses. This is an insoluble difficulty: the real is always mediated and distanced in culture, yet art may still draw attention to conditions and to the inherent contradictions they contain.