Our Abyssal Kin, Artists talk with Patty Chang and David Kelley
Join us for a conversation with Patty Chang and David Kelley, the artists of the exhibition, Our Abyssal Kin, and Jane McFadden, Dean of the Interdisciplinary Studies Division.
Our Abyssal Kin challenges the rigid distinction between humans and nature established by Western science. Instead, the exhibition insists on the inseparability of human and ecological systems. In a time in which environmental justice and climate issues have become increasingly urgent, the exhibition situates deep-sea ecology within historical struggles for agency and liberation.
Jane McFadden
Dean McFadden, a specialist in feminist art and land art, co-edited with curator Catherine Taft, Life on Earth: Art & Ecofeminism, The Brick’s Getty PST ART exhibition catalogue.
The publication presents ecofeminism as both a lens and departure point, presenting new methodologies for thinking-with our natural environment in the twenty-first century. These artists challenge anthropocentric notions around both gender and ecology to call for new positions that embrace communality, intersectionality, mythmaking, joy, and reparative action. The landmark publication offers an informed and accessible examination as it has manifested itself in art and visual culture.