Communicating Ice Through Popular Art and Aesthetics

ISBN-13: 9783031397868 / Angielski

Anne Hemkendreis; Anna-Sophie Jürgens

Spis treści

PART 1 BREAKING THE ICE: INFLUENCES AND INTERRELATIONS BETWEEN THE “TWO CULTURES” OF THE SCIENCES AND HUMANITIES – AND BEYOND.-  Chapter 1: ‘Communicating the Invisible: Ice Research and Culture – Introduction’, Anne Hemkendreis (University of Freiburg, Germany) and Anna-Sophie Jürgens (Australian National University, Australia).- Chapter 2: ‘Ice Stages and Staging Ice’, Klaus Dodds (Royal Holloway, University of London).- Chapter 3: ‘ArtSci: A Hybrid Perspective on Communicating Arctic Ice in the Climate Emergency’, Craig Stevens (University of Auckland, New Zealand) and Gabby O’Connor (artist, New Zealand).- PART 2 VISUALISING ICE EXPLORATION: ICE ARCHIVES AND IMAGINARIES.- Chapter 4: ‘“A True Story with True Pictures”: Ethnography and/as Rationalised Womanhood in the Arctic Writings of Josephine Peary’, Nanna Katrine Lüders Kaalund (Scott Polar Research Institute at the University of Cambridge, UK).- Chapter 5: ‘Surveying a Melting World: On the Visual Language of Early Glaciology’, Dominik Schrey (University of Passau, Germany).- Chapter 6: ‘Ice as a Real Time System: From the Exploration of Ice to Icy Imaginaries’ Birgit Schneider (Potsdam University Institute for Arts and Media, Germany).- Chapter 7: ‘Sensing Polar Ice Bodies: Arctic Archives’, Stephanie von Spreter (University of Tromsø, Norway).- PART 3 STAGING ICE: SCIENCE ON SHOW.- Chapter 8: ‘Antarctic Science on the Musical Stage’, Hanne Nielsen (University of Tasmania, Australia), Elizabeth Leane (University of Tasmania, Australia), Dana Bergstrom (Australian Antarctic Division, Australia) and Carolyn Philpott (University of Tasmania, Australia).- Chapter 9: ‘Net-Zero-Dragons: Climate Change Icons in Science Shows’, Graham Walker (Australian National University, Australia).- PART 4 EXPLORING ICE THROUGH VISUAL SPECTACLE Chapter 10: ‘Hard Ice, Soft Snow? Transnationalism, Spectatorship and the Arctic Sublime in Chasing Ice (2012) and Silent Snow (2011)’, Johannes Riquet (Tampere University, Finland).- Chapter 11: ‘Exploring Icy Environments from Above: Heroic Aeronauts and Scientific Communication’, Anne Hemkendreis (University of Freiburg, Germany).- PART 5 COMMUNICATING ICE THROUGH POPULAR VISUAL ARTS.- Chapter 12: ‘On the Visual Pop Cultures of Ice: Comics on Ice and Ice Villains’, Anna-Sophie Jürgens (Australian National University, Australia), Stefan Buchenberger (Kanagawa University, Japan), Laurence Grove (University of Glasgow, UK) and Matteo Farinella (artist/science communicator).- Chapter 13: ‘Melt for Me: Communicating Ice Empathy through the Plasticity of Disney’, Benjamin Nickl (University of Sydney, Australia).- Chapter 14: ‘Frozen Ground Cartoons: Revealing the Invisible Ice’, Frédéric Bouchard (University of Sherbrooke, Canada) and Ylva Sjöberg (University of Copenhagen, Denmark).- Chapter 15: ‘On the Aesthetic Cultures of Ice Urgency – Some Final Provocations’, Anne Hemkendreis (University of Freiburg, Germany) and Anna-Sophie Jürgens (Australian National University, Australia).

O autorze

Dr Anne Hemkendreis is a Lecturer at the research collaboration (SFB 948) Heroes – Heroizations - Heroism at the University of Freiburg (Germany). Her current book project examines the aesthetic and affective dimension of ice and snow in paintings, artistic performances and installations. Starting with the peak of the polar conquests around 1900, her project is dedicated to the development of snowscapes as an independent genre of art, the function of ice in contemporary feminist art and its agency in communicating climate change. Prior to this, Anne’s PhD thesis explored the interior paintings of the Danish artist Vilhelm Hammershøi (Fink Verlag, 2015). Anne also worked as a Postdoctoral Fellow and Research Assistant at the Alfried Krupp Wissenschaftskolleg of Greifswald, the Klassik Stiftung of Weimar and the Leuphana University of Lüneburg (all in Germany). She functioned as a Lecturer at different institutions, including the University of Arts in Berlin

Dr Anna-Sophie Jürgens is Lecturer (Assistant Professor) in Science Communication at the Australian National University exploring science in popular entertainment and pop culture. She has published on circus fiction and aesthetics, the history of (violent) clowns, comic mad scientists, clown robots, the cultural meanings of science, and comic performance and technology in culture in numerous academic journals. She was an Alexander-von-Humboldt Fellow at the Australian National University and the Freie Universität Berlin from 2017 to 2020. She is the guest editor of two special themed journal issues on popular performance and science (Journal of Science & Popular Culture, 2020) and violent clowns (Comedy Studies, 2020), co-editor of Manegenkünste: Zirkus als ästhetisches Modell (transcript, 2020) and the sole editor of the volume Circus, Science and Technology: Dramatising Innovation (Palgrave, 2020). Her next co-edited book, Circus and the Avant-Gardes, will appear in 2022.

Blurb

"The authors of Communicating Ice tell the stories and stages of ice, showing how its manifold bodies communicate from beyond the schemas of the Western tradition." 

-Amanda Boetzkes, University of Guelph, Canada

"With its well-written analyses, new insights and, not least, uplifting visions of new approaches, collaborations and opportunities, this book is a joy to read."

-Kirsten Thisted, University of Copenhagen, Denmark 

"This book makes a compelling attempt to understand ice not as an object but as an agent with which we must interact differently. Ultimately, the highly recommended volume points to the extreme urgency of political action to curb global warming"

-Evi Zemanek, University of Freiburg, Germany

"This collection brilliantly illustrates how storytelling and aesthetic presentation are crucial aids to understanding and communicating about objects of scientific inquiry. A timely and vital contribution to the environmental humanities, posthumanism and science communication."

- Chris Danta, School of Cybernetics, Australian National University, Australia

This edited collection is the first of its kind to explore the influences and interconnections between artistic and scientific approaches to understanding and communicating (the melting of) ice. The book investigates and clarifies the ecological and cultural implications of losing ice in the face of climate change – from glaciers to permafrost valleys, from scientific excursions into ice to its representation in (popular) art and culture. Bringing together diverse perspectives from research and practice across disciplines and media, this volume pioneers research into the cultural power of ice. 

​Dr Anne Hemkendreis is a Lecturer (Senior Researcher) at the research collaboration (SFB 948) Heroes – Heroizations - Heroism at the University of Freiburg (Germany) and member of the German Young Academy.

Dr Anna-Sophie Jürgens is a Lecturer in Popular Entertainment Studies at the Australian National Centre for the Public Awareness of Science at the Australian National University (ANU) and the Head of the Popsicule, ANU's Science in Pop Culture and Entertainment Hub.