Ant Farm (2016): I’m sure you’ve heard of the Anthropocene, a purposed geological epoch, which considers how human activities such as the burning of fossil fuels, or the extraction of minerals, has been so intense that they are changing climate norms once stable for several millennia; however, do you know what may come next? According to the biologist, and naturalist, E.O. Wilson, we may be entering the Eremocene, an ‘Age of Loneliness’ marked not by only by a vast change in the Earth’s geology, but through a radical loss of biodiversity. Said in another way, if we don’t reorganize society soon, the only life left on the planet could be a few people, and some insects. While capitalist modes of accumulation can be blamed for the overexploitation of nature and her resources, socialist politics haven’t really fared much better. Wilson, who himself is a don of entomology, once remarked, “Marx was right, it is just that he had the wrong species”. Maybe something truly radical is necessary to raise awareness; maybe we need to become ant!
martes, 16 de julio de 2019
Dustin Yellin
Dustin Yellin (B. 1975, California) is an artist who lives in Brooklyn, New York, and is the founder and director of Pioneer Works, a multidisciplinary cultural center in Red Hook, Brooklyn that builds community through the arts and sciences to create an open and inspired world. In tandem to his institution-building social practice, Yellin’s artwork makes the hidden forces of nature and commerce legible. Drawing on both modernism, and the sacral tradition of Hinterglas painting, Yellin primarily works through a unique form of 3-dimensional photomontage, in which paint, and images clipped from various print media are embedded within laminated glass sheets to form grand pictographic allegories, which the artist calls “frozen cinema”. These totemic and kaleidoscopic works often plumb the history and fate of human consciousness within the Anthropocene. Returning to Pioneer Works, Yellin’s twin practice can be seen as fostering a prescriptive institute on the one hand, while also running a descriptive artist’s studio on the other. His work has been exhibited at Amorepacific Museum, Brooklyn Museum, City Museum, Colección Solo, Corning Museum of Glass, The Kennedy Center, Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, Museo Del Palacio de Bellas Artes, SCAD Museum of Art, Tacoma Museum, and with Creative Time, amongst many others. Yellin is often featured in diverse media ranging from the New York Times, to Artforum, Vanity Fair, and TED. He holds an Honorary Doctor of Humane Letters from the Savannah College of Art and Design.
Ant Farm (2016): I’m sure you’ve heard of the Anthropocene, a purposed geological epoch, which considers how human activities such as the burning of fossil fuels, or the extraction of minerals, has been so intense that they are changing climate norms once stable for several millennia; however, do you know what may come next? According to the biologist, and naturalist, E.O. Wilson, we may be entering the Eremocene, an ‘Age of Loneliness’ marked not by only by a vast change in the Earth’s geology, but through a radical loss of biodiversity. Said in another way, if we don’t reorganize society soon, the only life left on the planet could be a few people, and some insects. While capitalist modes of accumulation can be blamed for the overexploitation of nature and her resources, socialist politics haven’t really fared much better. Wilson, who himself is a don of entomology, once remarked, “Marx was right, it is just that he had the wrong species”. Maybe something truly radical is necessary to raise awareness; maybe we need to become ant!
Ant Farm (2016): I’m sure you’ve heard of the Anthropocene, a purposed geological epoch, which considers how human activities such as the burning of fossil fuels, or the extraction of minerals, has been so intense that they are changing climate norms once stable for several millennia; however, do you know what may come next? According to the biologist, and naturalist, E.O. Wilson, we may be entering the Eremocene, an ‘Age of Loneliness’ marked not by only by a vast change in the Earth’s geology, but through a radical loss of biodiversity. Said in another way, if we don’t reorganize society soon, the only life left on the planet could be a few people, and some insects. While capitalist modes of accumulation can be blamed for the overexploitation of nature and her resources, socialist politics haven’t really fared much better. Wilson, who himself is a don of entomology, once remarked, “Marx was right, it is just that he had the wrong species”. Maybe something truly radical is necessary to raise awareness; maybe we need to become ant!
