ISSUE NO. 7 has the modest goal of spotlighting artists' strategies in initiating activist community-based art. It's a step toward illuminating the larger field, while avoiding the hubris of claiming more than is possible in this space. ...
Magazine
Madreagua Colombia Project
Lynne Hull's community-participatory project in Nueva Venecia, Santa Marta, and Laguna Grande Parque Nacional, Colombia. Sponsored by Museo Bolivariano and Parques Nacionales Naturales de Colombia, territorial Caribe. I conducted the project with the assistance...
Your Body
You are a body of water. If you knew this, would you protect yourself? The water in your body is part of the water cycle and connected to every other body of water. If you knew this, would you want to protect all the bodies of water on the planet? I. MY...
Valuing Dirt + Water
I. INTRODUCTION THERE'S 'DIRTY WATER' AND THERE'S 'DIRTY WATER.' Sometimes bringing dirt and water together is actually a good thing. This is when 'dirt' means 'soil,' and water is able to penetrate freely through it. Here microbes in the soil can convert the...
Working Earthworks
I. REVISITING THE ICONS ROBERT SMITHSON'S SPIRAL JETTY is one of the most frequently referenced works of environmental art. This huge spiral has been an icon in environmental art since it was created in 1970 on the Great Salt Lake in Utah. Spiral Jetty is the...
Wastewater In Cuba
DESCRIPTION This project is based upon an investigation as to how cultural identity can be a social trigger to address ecological degradation. The research methodology draws from environmental, social and urban analyses in order to unveil the best strategy to address...
Tragedy of Wild Waters
INTRODUCTION WATER HAS A SPLIT personality. On the one hand, it is gregarious, continually absorbing and dissolving other materials. Water's remarkable versatility is epitomized by its capacity to dissolve both acids and bases. On the other hand, it is meddlesome,...
Heart of Reeds
I. BACKGROUND IN THE TOWN OF LEWES in East Sussex, UK, there is a piece of wetland sandwiched between the river and the town, which 50 years ago used to be industrial land - a major railway marshalling yard-- and which now due to the dismantling of the railway...
25 Years On Water
EDITOR'S INTRODUCTION This issue proudly honors BETSY DAMON, a first-generation feminist performance artist and influential environmental art role model. From China to Pittsburg, she has made significant contributions to the art and understanding of remediating water...
The Ecology Of Reverence
I. PREAMBLE: THREE WARNING SIGNS AND A TRASH WHIRLPOOL II. OVERBURDENED WATERS There's hardly a river, stream, or brook that isn't contaminated with the runoff from human misuse, whether industrial effluents, agricultural pesticides and herbicides, or...
Waterwheel, Women & Collaboration
I. WATER: A LINK ACROSS CULTURES AS AN INTRINSICALLY EXPERIMENTAL artist I am deeply committed to making & developing art that examines, reflects upon, and helps us survive today's disjointed worlds. Artistically, I have been fascinated by water for many...
WEAD Artists Portfolio
This issue inaugurates the first WEAD Magazine Artists' Portfolio. Open only to WEAD listing artists and members, each Portfolio is curated by the Editorial Committee to showcase artists whose work reflects diverse approaches to the issue's theme. Here they...
DIRTY WATER
Guest Editorial Consultant Dr. Elizabeth Dougherty Assistant Editor Krystle Ahmadyar FEATURED ARTIST This issue proudly honors BETSY DAMON, a first-generation feminist performance artist and influential environmental art role model. From China to Pittsburg,...
Japanese Atomic Age Art: Ichi Ikeda Interview
Editor's Note: Japanese art writer and publisher Hiroko Shimizu's essay is in two parts. The first part is a brief overview of her country's nuclear issues and its artists working with these issues, both post-Hiroshima and post-Fukushima (site of the...
Tracking Our Atomic Legacy
'Now we are all sons of bitches.' - Test director Kenneth Bainbridge to J. Robert Oppenheimer, while watching the first atomic bomb test 'It is dark disaster that brings the light.' - Maurice Blanchot, The Writing of the Disaster I. ARCHIVE THROUGH TRACKING THE...
Nuked Notes: Free Radical Journey
PROLOGUE SHOPPING IN MY LOCAL CO-OP MARKET, contemplating the purchase of some wild salmon, I ask the friendly counterman if he knows the fish's origin. 'Alaska,' he replies. 'Are there tests being done on the fish?' I continue. 'For what?' he asks innocently....
The Art Of Protest
Dedicated to my brother, Joseph Jeremiah Lynch, March 26, 1952 - July 25, 2005. INTRODUCTION IN CONTEMPLATING SEVEN DECADES OF the detrimental effects nuclear technology has had on our global landscape and the enormous consequences it may have on our very existence,...
Infinity City: An Atomic Pilgrimage
INTRODUCTION ONE OF MY EARLIEST MEMORIES IS driving with my parents through Los Angeles and spotting a bomb shelter on a front lawn. I remember duck and cover exercises in junior high school, and checking where bomb shelter signs were posted in my...
Missing Landscape – Chernobyl
INTRODUCTION TEN YEARS AFTER CHERNOBYL, IN 1996, reports by NGOs on the aftermath of the disaster were prepared for TV and other media, but the only data released was from the IAEA (International Atomic Energy Agency) together with WHO (World Health Organization)—a...
The Earth Ambulance
EDITOR'S INTRODUCTION WEAD IS PLEASED TO HONOR Heléne Aylon as Issue #5 Feature Artist. A dedicated peace eco-activist, staunch feminist and inspirational ritual performance artist, Helene has worked more than 40 years on conceptual artworks to...