Posts Tagged: environmental crisis
Museum for Future Fossils: On Curating Ecological Crisis in a Vernacular Museum (article)
Kirsty Robertson and Eugenia Kisin. “Museum for Future Fossils: On Curating Ecological Crisis in a Vernacular Museum.” Journal of Curatorial Studies 12.2 (October 2023), 232-46. Can a curatorial model based on radical pedagogy encourage action on climate change? To answer
Museum for Future Fossils: On Curating Ecological Crisis in a Vernacular Museum (article)
Kirsty Robertson and Eugenia Kisin. “Museum for Future Fossils: On Curating Ecological Crisis in a Vernacular Museum.” Journal of Curatorial Studies 12.2 (October 2023), 232-46. Can a curatorial model based on radical pedagogy encourage action on climate change? To answer
meromictic
Curated by Kirsty Robertson and MCS4605E, artLAB, Western University, February 29-March 14, 2024 This exhibition was curated as a part of the capstone course in the undergraduate Museum and Curatorial Studies program at Western University. Kionywarihwaen, or Crawford Lake, is
meromictic
Curated by Kirsty Robertson and MCS4605E, artLAB, Western University, February 29-March 14, 2024 This exhibition was curated as a part of the capstone course in the undergraduate Museum and Curatorial Studies program at Western University. Kionywarihwaen, or Crawford Lake, is
A Public (Art) Notice
How can public art be made more sustainable? This collaboration among the Centre for Sustainable Curating, the Synthetic Collective, the Institute for Public Art and Sustainability (IPAS) at Evergreen Brick Works, and The Bentway took place in the warm spring of 2023, and coalesced
A Public (Art) Notice
How can public art be made more sustainable? This collaboration among the Centre for Sustainable Curating, the Synthetic Collective, the Institute for Public Art and Sustainability (IPAS) at Evergreen Brick Works, and The Bentway took place in the warm spring of 2023, and coalesced
Plastic Heart: Surface All the Way Through (article)
This article explores the exhibition Plastic Heart: Surface All the Way Through. Curated by the Synthetic Collective, the exhibition emerged from a scientific study aimed at tracking plastic pellet pollution on the strandlines of beaches of the Great Lakes. This lake
Plastic Heart: Surface All the Way Through (article)
This article explores the exhibition Plastic Heart: Surface All the Way Through. Curated by the Synthetic Collective, the exhibition emerged from a scientific study aimed at tracking plastic pellet pollution on the strandlines of beaches of the Great Lakes. This lake
Using the Resources at Hand: Sustainable Exhibition Design
Using the Resources at Hand is designed primarily to help students in the Department of Visual Arts at Western University, Canada think about eco-friendly options in designing exhibitions. Skills learned here can also be used elsewhere, and can help to
Using the Resources at Hand: Sustainable Exhibition Design
Using the Resources at Hand is designed primarily to help students in the Department of Visual Arts at Western University, Canada think about eco-friendly options in designing exhibitions. Skills learned here can also be used elsewhere, and can help to
Centre for Sustainable Curating
Located in the Department of Visual Arts at Western University, the Centre for Sustainable Curating encourages research into waste, pollution, and climate crisis, and the development of exhibitions and artworks with low carbon footprints. While many museums have started to
Centre for Sustainable Curating
Located in the Department of Visual Arts at Western University, the Centre for Sustainable Curating encourages research into waste, pollution, and climate crisis, and the development of exhibitions and artworks with low carbon footprints. While many museums have started to
From Remote Stars: Buckminster Fuller, London, and Speculative Futures
Image: From Remote Stars, installation, showing work by Christina Battle, are we going to get blown off the planet [and what should we do about it], video installation (digital video, collaged fabric curtain), 2022, photo courtesy of Tony Hafkenscheid, 2022
From Remote Stars: Buckminster Fuller, London, and Speculative Futures
Image: From Remote Stars, installation, showing work by Christina Battle, are we going to get blown off the planet [and what should we do about it], video installation (digital video, collaged fabric curtain), 2022, photo courtesy of Tony Hafkenscheid, 2022
Plastic Heart: Surface All the Way Through
Plastic Heart: Surface All the Way Through. Curated by the Synthetic Collective. The Art Museum at the University of Toronto, September 8-November 15, 2021 Plastic Heart is an experimental exhibition that examines plastic as art material, cultural object, geologic process,
Plastic Heart: Surface All the Way Through
Plastic Heart: Surface All the Way Through. Curated by the Synthetic Collective. The Art Museum at the University of Toronto, September 8-November 15, 2021 Plastic Heart is an experimental exhibition that examines plastic as art material, cultural object, geologic process,
Kirsty Robertson 