Abstract
This paper brings together an experimental discussion of art curation regarding the immediacy of the environmental crisis of climate change and ecosystem disruption in relation to the grammatical language invented to allow nature, the formidable Greek notion of fusis/physis, a ‘voice’ as an affected subject. Here we have physis act as the pre-Socratic subject of all things interrelated. From the ancient noun derived from its verb, φύσις as a verbal noun, the growth of all things that grows. Here we wish to reevaluate the communicative aspects between humans and their relational place on earth in terms of language spoken between humans and the environment, which we find deeper in crisis after the more global environmental conservation movements of the 1970s. If we narrow Gerard Naddaf’s linguistic interpretation of physis, as a comprehensive term in reference to the origin and growth of the universe from beginning to end to guide our query of physis within terms of our relationship with the environment, then we can suggest that nature speaks to our understanding of a grammatical language of events. When we hear menq enq, mer lernere / ‘we are our mountains’ by the displaced Artsakh Armenians, let us reconsider cultures that associate their ontologies within the folds of a physis denoted by language. In doing so, we can re-examine the ‘lost’ voice of physis as it speaks of ‘techne trauma’ as affected subject, where it is as subject that acts and is acted upon.
Presenters
Hazel Antaramian HofmanAdjunct Art History Instructor, Fine, Performing, Communication Arts, Fresno City College (State Center Community College District-SCCCD), California, United States
Details
Presentation Type
Paper Presentation in a Themed Session
Theme
The Arts in Social, Political, and Community Life
KEYWORDS
NATURE, ENVIRONMENT, CLIMATE CHANGE, LANGUAGE, VOICE, CURATION, ART, PHYSIS
