We sat with with activist and artist Jenny Kendler to discuss climate grief, and what artists can do for the planet:
Every moment of the day, dawn is peaking over the horizon somewhere on the planet. This is something that Jenny Kendler, who is deeply focused on being close with nature, has thought a lot about. What does dawn sound like? Her workmeditates on what this chorus would be if you could travel the world as it was happening: one bright and fluid melody of diverse birds, one planet with a perpetual song.
Artnet News spoke to Kendler about the responsibility she feels for the planet, and how not to lose hope in the face of what looks like a dire future.Which takes priority: your environmental concerns or your artistic pursuits? Where do they merge or split? Do you feel like that’s why you have even more responsibility than an artist working in a rural area in the Global South?
I also use the word “intimate” to describe my work and it feels really important. There is this unique thing that art can do that other ways of communicating can’t necessarily do. If the central challenge is to move beyond extractive capitalism and find a new way of relating to the more-than-human world, really what we need to do is change culture and values. It is very hard to do. It’s very rare that people encounter something that actually changes the way that they feel about the world.
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