Helen and Newton Harrison
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UCSD Emeriti Professors in Visual Arts, the Harrisons began collaborating more than 35 years ago. They are pioneers in the formation of a genre loosely described as ecological art. Their subject matter, ranging across a large number of disciplines, always has at its core the eco-social well-being of place, context, or situation. Whether dealing with the reclamation of watersheds, reforestation, or modest projects in cities and their surrounds, whole systems thinking dominates their processes of work. They have exhibited broadly and internationally in large-scale installations using diverse media that have critical and propositional thinking in them. They use the exhibition format in several ways, often in the sense of a town meeting, always with the intention of their seeing their proposals moving off the walls, landing in planning processes, and ultimately resulting in interventions in the physical environment. An explication and examples of their work are given in the Structure and Dynamics eJournal 2(3), Public Culture and Sustainable Practices: Peninsula Europe from an ecodiversity perspective, posing questions to Complexity Scientists Helen Mayer Harrison and Newton Harrison
Text for the article, 2008, for Structure and Dynamics.
UC VideoConference Jan 11, 2008/Streaming Video http://tinyurl.com/yocuxq
