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Foreword
On the occasion of Sharjah Biennial 8, ‘Still Life: Art, Ecology and the Politics of Change’, this a-n Collection focuses on creative processes at the intersections between art, radical politics and the environment.
The full collection held on www.a-n.co.uk/radical_positions features articles from a-n’s archive, which has borne longstanding witness to artists’ socially engaged practices and networks, alongside republished specialist research and new artists’ profiles. Manick Govinda’s essay discusses artists and curators who problematise the current ‘environmental emergency’. As Michaela Crimmin of RSA (Royal Society of Arts) said “It’s about habitats, social issues and survival from biodiversity through to conflict and poverty”1. Curator Kate Fowle’s a-n interview with Russian artist Anatoly Osmolovsky back in 2001 characterised the embedded and almost barometric pressure placed on an artist’s role in shifting sociopolitical climates, when Osmolovsky spoke of the trigger to re-align his practice: “When the general cultural climate changes in such a radical way that basic functions of contemporary art are no longer required”. As platformed in Sharjah, artists’ actions and often non-commercial working practices valuably highlight our shifting cultural climate and appeal to our personal feelings of responsibility about our...
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