Popularizing a systems approach to culture will take a while. I’ve begun to sketch out a roadmap knowing it may take lifetimes to explore, create, and ground-truth at any scale.
the impediment
On the home page, I wanted to welcome visitors and highlight a core insight that launched this whole articulture initiative. It’s the notion that:
Our contemporary “western” industrial idea of “art” is rooted in the illusion of separation which is itself an impediment to a more holistic, integrative, “regenerative” culture.
First, a little context. During my near-decade working on greenmuseum•org (2000-2008), I wore the sparkly hat of an environmental and eco-art cheerleader. With my colleagues, I tried to share the best examples I could find from what was then, an emerging field (since the ’60s) that was just beginning to take off. I spoke, wrote, organized, and connected people and ideas from around the world, and did everything I could to raise awareness of what was happening in the generative mix of art and ecology to help inspire the creation of new work. It all felt important, even urgent…