Wild New Territories showcases new visual art, media, and performance works that explore the interplay between the urban and the wild. It examines links between cultural and natural ecologies to reflect on issues related to uncertain environments.
Wild New Territories draws the reader's attention to our fragile, dependent relationship with our natural and man-made environments. This book provides a cautionary accounta wake-up callgiven our precarious inhabitation of the planet. The accompanying exhibition will occupy gallery and outdoor spaces of the Botanic Garden and Botanical Museum in Berlin. This book documents and expands upon a series of exhibits, performances, and interventions in galleries and outdoor spaces in London, Vancouver, and Berlin.
The exhibition featured work by a broad cross-section of award winning contemporary artists from a variety of geographic regions. This initiative showcased new visual art, media and performance works created by the artists to resonate with the exhibition themes. These works explored the relationship between the urban and the wild, reflecting on issues related to an uncertain environment and its prospective impacted ecosystems.
Wild New Territories presents themes that reflect the complex interconnectedness of all things, ultimately linking cultural and environmental ecologies, further developing those themes that were the theoretical stepping off point for the exhibition. The previously accepted nature/urban binary will be challenged, and the work of each artist will be explored, bringing diverse perspectives to the multifaceted and unresolved relationship between urban growth and the environment with all its ecological and social implications. Contemporary art has the ability to assist us in seeing such issues in fresh and provocative ways. By locating art in some of the worlds most creative urban habitat initiatives, this multi-platform event and resulting text enters wild new territories, generating new insight into an evolving urban and wild relationship.
Featured artist include Julie Henry/Debbie Bragg, Gordon Cheung, Dana Claxton,
Ron den Daas, Jamie Griffiths, Edgar A Heap Of Birds, Foreign Investment, Mars Kaliszewski, Kathy Kenny, Max Kimber, Michael Landy, Glenn Lewis, Michael Morris, Bo Myers, Diego Samper, Rob Scharein, Vincent Trasov, Gillian Wearing, Alma Tischler Wood and Cornelia Wyngaarden.
