BOOKS
Arctic Voices: Resistance at the Tipping Point
Edited by Subhankar Banerjee
Seven Stories Press, New York, July 2012
“One of the great strengths of Arctic Voices is that it shows how Alaska and the Arctic are tied to the places where most of us live. In Arctic Voices, long–term issues of global importance—the exploitation of wild places for fossil fuels, and whether we’re determined to ride out our energy binge to the grim end—are made immediate and vivid…In this impassioned book, Banerjee shows a situation so serious that it has created a movement, where “voices of resistance are gathering, are getting louder and louder.” May his heartfelt efforts magnify them.”—Ian Frazier, The New York Review of Books
“The earth and her beings have been speaking. But we failed to listen. Arctic Voices compels us to listen. We will stay deaf at our peril.”
—Vandana Shiva
“A marvelous work, a marvelous land—hear the voices that call us to save these jewels of our planet.”—James E. Hansen
“Part of our failure to recognise the dangers at stake is that the Arctic still tends to be perceived as a big barren desert of ice, apolitical and disconnected from our political concerns, up for grabs. The book Arctic Voices: Resistance at the Tipping Point offers an encyclopedic approach to reframe such understandings.”—Manuela Picq, Al Jazeera
“Their reverence for, and connection to, the earth—its animals, water, mountains and land—is beautifully described in Arctic Voices, and each essay is as much a prayer as a call to activism.”—Eleanor J. Bader, Truthout
READ SUBHANKAR’S INTRODUCTION IN ARCTIC VOICES (PDF)
Rich in the incredible diversity of animal life, the long human history of its indigenous peoples, and the vast reservoirs of oil, natural gas, and coal, the Arctic is the tipping point, the place where we will see the first glimpses of the future that awaits us, and also where great battles are now being fought that will determine whether our future will be that of survival or destruction, recovery from the brink or departures beyond the point of no return. The thirty–nine voices assembled in Arctic Voices…attempts to change how we look at a part of our world that we now know so little about and with a new awareness will awaken our moral obligation to help its continued survival against industrial destruction and the greed of a few. After you have read Arctic Voices, Banerjee hopes, “You will begin to think and talk about the Arctic differently than you did before. And perhaps you’ll find an answer to the question, ‘Why should I care about the Arctic?’”—from Arctic Voices back cover
ESSAYS
In the Beautiful, Threatened North
By Ian Frazier, The New York Review of Books, Volume 60, Number 4, March 7, 2013
Frazier’s generous essay is a review of Arctic Voices: Resistance at the Tipping Point.
READ IAN FRAZIER’S ESSAY ONLINE
Can Shell Be Stopped?—A Letter to the Editors
By Subhankar Banerjee, The New York Review of Books, Vol. 60, No. 10, June 6, 2013
READ SUBHANKAR’S LETTER ONLINE
Keep the Arctic Cold
By Subhankar Banerjee, Seven Stories Press, May 17, 2013
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COMMON DREAMS |
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SEVEN STORIES
Walking the Waters
How to Bring the Major Oil Companies Ashore and Halt the Destruction of Our Oceans
By Subhankar Banerjee, TomDispatch, August 2, 2012 | READ ONLINE
Theory in the Era of Climate Change
Telemorphosis (vol. 1) — edited by Tom Cohen
Impasses of the Post–Global (vol. 2) — edited by Henry Sussman
This two–volume anthology is published by the Open Humanities Press, an imprint of MPublishing, University of Michigan Library, May 15, 2012.
Impasses of the Post–Global includes Yates McKee’s essay, “Of Survival: Climate Change and Uncanny Landscape in the Photography of Subhankar Banerjee.”
READ YATES MCKEE’S ESSAY ONLINE
VOL. 1 ONLINE |
VOL. 1 PRINT EDITION |
VOL. 2 ONLINE |
VOL. 2 PRINT EDITION
Where I Live I Hope To Know
An exhibition catalog published by the Amon Carter Museum of American Art, May 2011
The exhibition and the accompanying catalogue of Subhankar’s desert series were made possible by a generous grant from the LANNAN FOUNDATION.
READ SUBHANKAR’S ESSAY ONLINE (pdf)
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READ CURATOR JESSICA MAY’S ESSAY ONLINE (pdf)
Contemporary Art and the Politics of Ecology
Third Text, Volume 27, Issue 1, January 2013, Routledge, London
Edited by T. J. Demos
This Third Text special issue includes sixteen essays by scholars from around the world, including Subhankar’s essay, “Ought We Not to Establish ‘Access to Food’ As a Species Right?.”
READ T. J. DEMOS’S INTRODUCTION ONLINE
READ SUBHANKAR’S ESSAY ONLINE
Subhankar will give lectures in the following symposiums that mark the release of this Third Text special issue
Where Are We Going, Walt Whitman?
An ecosophical roadmap for artists and other futurists
Gerrit Rietveld Academie, Amsterdam, Netherlands, February 13, 2013
Eco–Aesthetics: Contemporary Art and the Politics of Ecology
History of Art, University College London, March 2, 2013
The 18th Biennale of Sydney: all our relations
Edited by Catherine de Zegher and Gerald McMaster
Biennale of Sydney, 2012
The biennale catalog includes Subhankar’s essay, “Photography’s Silence of (Non)Human Communities.”
It is posted here with permission from the Sydney Biennale.
READ SUBHANKAR’S ESSAY ONLINE (pdf)
LECTURES
James Hansen with Subhankar Banerjee
Lannan Foundation lecture series In Pursuit of Cultural Freedom
Lensic Performing Arts Center, Santa Fe, February 20, 2013 (SOLD OUT)
WATCH VIDEOS OF THE EVENT ONLINE
Where Are We Going, Walt Whitman? An ecosophical roadmap for artists and other futurists
Gerrit Rietveld Academie, Amsterdam, Netherlands, February 13, 2013
Artist lecture and discussion with students
The Sandberg Institute, Amsterdam, Netherlands, February 14, 2013
Eco–Aesthetics: Contemporary Art and the Politics of Ecology
History of Art, University College London, March 2, 2013
Discussion with MA students
Photographic History Research Centre, De Montfort University, Leicester, UK, March 5, 2013
PostNatural // SLSA Conference 2013
The 27th annual meeting of the Society for Literature, Science, and the Arts (SLSA)
University of Notre Dame, October 3–6, 2013
Subhankar will give a plenary speech at the conference on October 4
Some of his photographs will also be shown at the Snite Museum of Art, in conjunction with the conference.
INTERVIEWS
Subhankar Banerjee in conversation with Amy Goodman and Juan Gonzalez
Democracy Now!, July 20, 2012
INTERVIEW WITH AMY GOODMAN & JUAN GONZALEZ—WATCH ONLINE
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SLIDE SHOW & BOOK EXCERPT
EXHIBITIONS
[group] Vanishing Ice: Alpine and Polar Landscapes in Art 1775–2012
Whatcom Museum, Bellingham, Washington, November 2, 2013–March 2, 2014
[one-person] Arctic Photographs
Snite Museum of Art, The University of Notre Dame, South Bend, Indiana, October 2013
[one-person] Arctic Subtext
Esther Massry Gallery, The College of Saint Rose, Albany, New York, January 20 – March 1, 2013
[group] 18th Biennale of Sydney: all our relations
Sydney, Australia, June 27 – September 16, 2012
Curated by Artistic Directors Catherine de Zegher and Gerald McMaster
Caribou migration I (detail), from the Oil and the Caribou series, 2002
EXHIBITION CONCEPT | ART GALLERY OF NEW SOUTH WALES EXHIBIT PAGE
SUBHANKAR ARTIST PAGE |
SUBHANKAR CONVERSATION WITH MOIRA ROTH
The biennale presented an installation of Subhankar’s Arctic photographs with contextual material at the Art Gallery of New South Wales, one of the five biennale venues. He also wrote an essay titled, “Photography’s Silence of (Non)Human Communities” for the biennale catalog. His five photographs that were exhibited in the biennale are in the permanent collection of the Lannan Foundation.