Artists and writers go beyond disciplinary boundaries and linear histories to address the fight
for environmental justice uniting the Asia-Pacific vantage point with international discourse.
Modeling the curatorial as a method for uniting cultural production and science Climates.
Habitats. Environments. weaves together image and text to address the global climate crisis.
Through exhibitions artworks and essays artists and writers transcend disciplinary
boundaries and linear histories to bring their knowledge and experience to bear on the fight
for environmental justice. In doing so they draw on the rich cultural heritage of the
Asia-Pacific in conversation with international discourse to demonstrate transdisciplinary
solution-seeking. Experimental in form as well as in method Climates. Habitats. Environments.
features an inventive book design by mono.studio that puts word and image on equal footing
offering a multiplicity of media interpretations and manifestations of interdisciplinary
research. For example botanist Matthew Hall draws on Ovid's Metamorphoses to discuss
human-plant interpenetration curator and writer Venus Lau considers how spectrality
consumes-and is consumed-in animation and film literature music and cuisine and critical
theorist and filmmaker Elizabeth Povinelli proposes Water Sense as a geontological approach to
the question of our connected and differentiated existence informed by the ancestral
catastrophe of colonialism. Artists excavate the natural and cultural DNA of indigo lacquer
rattan and mulberry works at the intersection of art design and architecture explore The
Posthuman City an ongoing research project investigates the ecological urgencies of Pacific
archipelagos. The works of art the projects and the majority of the texts featured in the
book were commissioned by NTU Centre for Contemporary Art Singapore. Copublished with NTU
Centre for Contemporary Art Singapore
