Filipa Ramos - Böcker

How are contemporary artists responding to the climate crisis? Filipa Ramos takes an original approach to the subject by addressing two parallel strands. She looks firstly at pioneering approaches to ecology by key contemporary artists from different generations and cultural backgrounds working in different art media; and she considers the balance between ecology as theme and ecology as practice, underscoring the imperative for both artists and art institutions to adopt responsible environmental positions in their practice.This topical and important book discusses the work of artists who have returned to the land; reviews how questions of shared rights and environmental justice are represented in contemporary artistic practice; highlights the renewed importance of performance and time-based media in ecologically themed art; and looks at artists’ and art institutions’ complex relationship to environmental action.

An enquiry into non-human, human and artificial minds The Shape of a Circle in the Mind of a Fish is an edited collection that brings together interventions across the arts, the humanities and the sciences to investigate animal, plant and fungal intelligence, consciousness and affects, machine sentience and interspecies communication. Edited by Lucia Pietroiusti and Filipa Ramos, the publication includes original conversations, essays, interviews, meditations, poems and artwork representations by 100 authors – activists, anthropologists, artists, biologists, ecologists, gardeners, musicians, philosophers, theologians and more.