Edward Christie

Academic position: PhD Research Student

Department: History of Art

Biography:

Through my doctoral project, I am working to reform post-war modern art history in the light of critical discourse on the environment, which has proliferated in recent years with the wide acceptance of the Anthropocene thesis and the popularisation of climate activism. Fundamentally, I ask the following question: 鈥榃hat would it mean to interrogate post-war modern art history through the prism of a contemporary environmentalist perspective?鈥�.聽 My answers centre on the conviction that art history essentially involves the critical analysis and transformation of the conditions of subjectivity as expressly manifested in artworks, and that an environmentalist approach to the discipline could therefore point towards fundamental and holistic means of responding to the climate crisis.

Research Projects:

Initiatives:

Cultural Ecology: Galvanising Climate Action Across the Arts, Seminar Host.

Based at 果冻影院 Anthropocene, the Cultural Ecology seminar programme unites activist-academics working across the arts to interrogate the following question: 鈥楬ow might cultural researchers galvanise more urgent and effective responses to the climate crisis to remedy the severe inadequacy of the actions currently being set into motion by governments and corporations?鈥�

Environment Domain Early-career Network (EDEN), co-Chair.

The Environment Domain Early Career Network (EDEN) provides support to researchers in the early stages of their career in environmental research at 果冻影院.
Through my work with EDEN I have been promoting interdisciplinary discourse on environmental issues between early-career 果冻影院 academics from arts and sciences backgrounds.

Past Imperfect Seminar, Steering Group Member.

Past Imperfect is a visual culture seminar based in the History of Art Department at 果冻影院. We share concerns with the past and its place in the present, a present increasingly overinvested in the value of the contemporary.
I took a leading role in developing last year鈥檚 programme, which was centred on the theme of 鈥楢ctivation鈥�.聽 Among events, I helped to organise a series of short lectures on the relationship between art and protest movements, for which I gave a presentation on how contemporary documentary artists are responding to extractivist crimes in Latin America.

Presentations:

"Rasheed Araeen's 'Ecoaesthetics'", Environment, Ecology, Sustainability, The Slade School of Fine Art, March 26, 2021.
鈥�, Art History in Climate Change, The Courtauld Institute of Art, June 26, 2020.

Publications:

",鈥� Object, December 3, 2020.
",鈥� Burlington Contemporary, January 2, 2020,
",鈥� Anthroposphere: The Oxford Climate Review, June 11, 2019.

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