How can I be OK with the e/and of the world?
Abstract
This dossier, a companion to my MFA thesis exhibition, communicates research on climate anxiety and contemporary art’s engagement with the Climate Emergency. It gathers contemporary art and fiction, graphic novels, environmental philosophy, Indigenous literature and theory, and feminist theory. The Comprehensive Artist Statement articulates how I process and respond to my own climate anxiety through my contemporary painting practice. A material commitment is elucidated, and a collaborative painting strategy outlined, both in the service of better connecting my tangible studio output with my research to form a cohesive whole. These experiments influenced the images and art materials that I worked with, to bring to life the series of paintings shown in the Practice Documentation chapter. The final chapter is an experimental exhibition review of BioCurious, curated by Jennifer Matotek and Julie Rae Tucker. Autoethnographic sections are interspersed throughout these chapters to document my reflections on living through climate change.