The rich and impressive release True to nature, edited by Nina Ossavy and Marius Kolbeinstvedt, springs from the artist collective CAN (Concerned Artists Norway). The book replaces an art festival planned for 2020 with the title Decolonizing nature, which was canceled due to the corona crisis. At the center is the decolonization of nature as a project, demands, problem and utopia. As a festival in book form, it is about something between an art book, full of poems and pictures, a collection of essays and a collective manifesto.
Every opponent stands as a kind of Don Quixote, fighting for unattainable and outdated ideals.
The pun in the elegant title True to nature refers to a fidelity to nature surroundings, an intimate contact and identification. The book shows a radical critique of prevailing representations of nature that dominate in practice: the colonizer's approach, where landscapes, animals and plants are considered pure property and mere resources.
Do we know nature?
Erland Kiøsterud's ambiguous and thought-provoking essay contribution maps a number of alternative ways of understanding nature, from different theorists and with reference to non-European traditions, such as. . .
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