Ephemeral Coast: Visualizing Coastal Climate Change: (Series on the History of Art)

'Ephemeral Coast: Visualizing Coastal Climate Change' considers the ways that art can offer a means through which to discover, analyze, re-imagine and re-frame emotive discourses about the ecological and cultural transformations of the coastline. This edited anthology takes ephemerality as its central conceptual and methodological framework and presents a series of essays that create interconnections between environmental and social considerations of the coast, a succession of embodied creative practices, and shifting regional geographic identities. The book presents a series of specific case studies of artistic practices and strategies that seek to capture the rewriting of cartographic maps that are being reshaped by rising seas, coastal flooding and catastrophic weather. The essays in this edited volume engender creative strategies for understanding new and uncertain coastal ecologies and the loss, expulsion or destruction of their associated cultures, habitats, species and ecosystems. The anthology also looks at the historical, mnemonic and contemporary transitional conditions of 'conflicted' coastal spaces in which empire, modernity and globalization press on coastal erosion and incursions, proliferate it with trivial plastics, pollution and disposable attitudes, and bring vulnerable communities into uncertain futures.

Table of Contents:
List of Figures Acknowledgements Foreword by David Rothenberg Introduction Celina Jeffery University of Ottawa I. The Sea We Make Diana Heise Kansas City Art Institute II. Mapping Arctic Shores: Visual Stories of Entangled Histories Celina Jeffery University of Ottawa III. From Sea to Source: A Pilgrimage along the Water's Edges Andrea Hurst Nelson Mandela University, South Africa Belinda Du Plooy Nelson Mandela University, South Africa IV. The Baltic Waterways: Mapping Cross-Cultural and Ecological Awareness of the Baltic Sea Anna Paluch Carleton University V. Woven Imaginations: Stories of fluidity and fixity in coastal Louisiana Catherine Bonier Carleton University VI. From Ongoing Nakba to a Palestinian Hydro-commons: Reading the Jordan River and the Dead Sea as Ecopolitical Refusal Sherena Razek Brown University VII. Three Lines in Space: The Aesthetics of Data Visualization of Sea-level Rise in the Research-based Artworks of Andrea Polli, Timo Aho and Pekka Niittyvirta, and Paul Maher Jakub Zdebik University of Ottawa VIII. The Ocean Behind Glass Ian Buchanan University of Wollongong Contributors Index

About the Author :
Celina Jeffery is an Associate Professor of Art History at the University of Ottawa, Canada. Recent publications include Ephemeral Coast (2015), The Artist as Curator (2015), the 'Junk Ocean' issue of Drain: A Journal of Contemporary Art and Culture (January 2016) and the 'Towards a Blue Humanity' issue of Symploke (2019), co-edited with Ian Buchanan. She is the founder of Ephemeral Coast www.ephemeralcoast.com, a SSHRC (Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council) funded, curatorial research project (2015-2019). She has curated exhibitions internationally which explore the visual cultures of climate change.