Communicating Ice through Popular Art and Aesthetics

This book brings together the perspectives of eminent and emerging scholars from fields as varied as science communication, art history, pop cultural studies, environmental studies, sciences studying ice and artists to explore the power of (popular) arts and aesthetics to communicate ice research and the urgency of environmental action. Examining the aesthetic strategies employed in images, (popular) visual fiction and narratives to convey meaning and awareness and how they can be made fruitful for science communication the project will generate new perspectives on how our collective environmental responsibility can be addressed and communicated across disciplines and divers audiences. In doing so, the volume will illuminate the cultural power of ice research and contribute to a better understanding of the cultural work that emerges from our ecological crisis.

Investigates and clarifies the ecological and cultural implications of losing ice in the face of climate change Brings together diverse perspectives from research and practice across disciplines and media Clarifies the role of art and popular culture in raising environmental awareness

Autorentext

Dr Anne Hemkendreis is a Lecturer at the research collaboration (SFB 948) Heroes - Heroizations - Heroism at the University of Freiburg (Germany). Her current book project examines the aesthetic and affective dimension of ice and snow in paintings, artistic performances and installations. Starting with the peak of the polar conquests around 1900, her project is dedicated to the development of snowscapes as an independent genre of art, the function of ice in contemporary feminist art and its agency in communicating climate change. Prior to this, Anne's PhD thesis explored the interior paintings of the Danish artist Vilhelm Hammershøi (Fink Verlag, 2015). Anne also worked as a Postdoctoral Fellow and Research Assistant at the Alfried Krupp Wissenschaftskolleg of Greifswald, the Klassik Stiftung of Weimar and the Leuphana University of Lüneburg (all in Germany). She functioned as a Lecturer at different institutions, including the University of Arts in Berlin
Dr Anna-Sophie Jürgens is Lecturer (Assistant Professor) in Science Communication at the Australian National University exploring science in popular entertainment and pop culture. She has published on circus fiction and aesthetics, the history of (violent) clowns, comic mad scientists, clown robots, the cultural meanings of science, and comic performance and technology in culture in numerous academic journals. She was an Alexander-von-Humboldt Fellow at the Australian National University and the Freie Universität Berlin from 2017 to 2020. She is the guest editor of two special themed journal issues on popular performance and science (Journal of Science & Popular Culture, 2020) and violent clowns (Comedy Studies, 2020), co-editor of Manegenkünste: Zirkus als ästhetisches Modell (transcript, 2020) and the sole editor of the volume Circus, Science and Technology: Dramatising Innovation (Palgrave, 2020). Her next co-edited book, Circus and the Avant-Gardes, will appear in 2022.

Inhalt

PART 1: Staging Ice and Ice Stages in Science, Science Communication and Aesthetic Experience.- 1. Communicating Loss: Ice Research, Popular Art and Aesthetics: Introduction.- 2. Ice Stages and Staging Ice.- 3. Movies on Ice: An ArtSci Perspective on Communicating Antarctic Ice in the Climate Emergency.- 4. Here Be Science Show Dragons: Ice, Icons and Metaphoric Approaches to Climate Change Communication.- PART 2 :Ice Exploration: Heroism, Art and Imaginaries.- 5. Ethnography as Racialised Womanhood in the Arctic Writings of Josephine Diebitsch-Peary.- 6. Materiality of Time: Polar Ice as a Medium for Ecological Art for the Tempered Zones.- 7. Sensing Polar Ice Bodies.- 8. Antarctic Science on the Musical Stage.- 9. Icy Love: Performing Affect and Emotion Feeling About Climate Change.- PART 3: Pop Cultural Meanings of Ice in Visual Fiction and Film.- 10. Frozen Balloons: Aeronautic Heroism and Scientific Knowledge Production.- 11. Hard Ice, Soft Snow? Transnationalism, Spectatorship and the Arctic Sublime in Chasing Ice (2011) and Silent Snow (2011) .- 12. Frozen-Ground CartoonsRevealing the Invisible Ice.- 13. On the Visual Narratives of Ice in Popular Culture: Comics on Ice, Icy Villains and Ice Science.- 14. Melt for Me: Communicating Ice Empathy Through the Plasticity of Disney.- 15. On the Aesthetic Facets of Ice Urgency: Some Final Reflections.-