Celina Jeffery is an Associate Professor of Art History at the University of Ottawa, Canada. Recent publications include Ephemeral Coast (2015), The Artist as Curator (2015), the 'Junk Ocean' issue of Drain: A Journal of Contemporary Art and Culture (January 2016) and the 'Towards a Blue Humanity' issue of Symploke (2019), co-edited with Ian Buchanan. She is the founder of Ephemeral Coast www.ephemeralcoast.com, a SSHRC (Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council) funded, curatorial research project (2015-2019). She has curated exhibitions internationally which explore the visual cultures of climate change.
"Ephemeral Coast: Visualizing Coastal Climate Change" is a
significant contribution to the Blue Humanities and to Contemporary
Ecocritical Art History and criticism, offering a text that is
readable and accessible to a wide audience, incorporating clear
discussions and integrations of contemporary art practices,
ecocritical theory, and environmental science and journalism.
Chapters incorporate important voices in the decolonial
environmental humanities and a global range of artists, theorists,
sites, and specific projects. Throughout the text there is a
conscious centering of Indigenous histories, critics and makers.
Many urgent themes carry across its chapters such as commitment to
ephemeral statuses of land and sea; contemporary relational
research models and modes of visualization; the significance of
effective storytelling; contentious extractive claims to
shorelines, bodies of water and ice; environmental and social
justice activism, indigenous ecologies and Land relationships and
the agency of artists' creative imaginations and visualizations.
Ephemeral Coast is an ideal text for an art and ecology or
environmental humanities course and a very lucid argument for the
agency of the Blue Humanities.
Prof. Maura CoughlinDepartment of Art + DesignNortheastern
University
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