Is There "Logic" in Eco-logical Pursuits?
Perhaps, it is the artists who baffle and perplex who provide the most accurate renditions of human life on planet Earth.
Among eco artists, there are many who make no presumption about possessing the knowledge or the acuity to decipher how our planet’s systems function. Their work attests to the fact that the cannot differentiate between temporary fluctuations and persistent trends, or between perverse anomalies and optimal evolutions. They seem to accept that any single event can be beneficial, harmful, and/or negligible depending upon:
- time frames (short-term consequences can be poor predictors of long-term effects)
- locations (points of origin cannot predict the outer limits of their effects)
- influences (responses to the responses creates mergers and cross-overs that cannot be predicted), and perspectives (what benefits one species harms other species).
They seem to be telling us that those who desire certainty must anticipate a long, difficult, and fruitless search for footing because it will transpire upon a perpetually morphing, continuously evolving planet.
Statistical studies, modeling strategies, regression analyses, and simulations provide little guidance because conclusions drawn by these sophisticated tools frequently contradict each other.
The discrepancies between competing authorities announcing contrasting opinions about environmental conditions buried many good intentions under heaps of perplexities.
Is there ‘logic’ in eco-logic-al pursuits? Not according to the following artists. They all forego foregone conclusions: Critical Art Ensemble, Fernando Garcia-Dory, Nicole Fournier, Gelitin, Andy Gracie, Tue Greenfort, Terike Haapoja, HeHe, Eduardo Kac, Jae Rhim Lee, Marjetica Potrc, Red Earth, Pedro Reyes, Tomas Saraceno, Simon Starling, Steiner and Lenzlinger, Superflex, Tissue Culture & Art, Lily Yeh.