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Irene Kopelman
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The Exact Opposite of Distance
Amsterdam-based artist Irene Kopelman's work explores the relationship between science and art, sifting through the problem of the inherent tensions between sameness and difference. 'The Exact Opposite of Distance' is both a journal and an art book documenting her experience while making drawings of patterns of light in the Amazon rainforest. Having a habit of always translating what she observes into compositional fragments, Kopelman was challenged by the complexity and chaos of the dense jungle. As told in her fascinating and candid daily accounts, the confrontation between task and setting forced her to constantly negotiate her criteria in the creative
50 Metres Distance Or More
Notes on Representation Volume 4'. A collection of drawings and texts by Irene Kopelman, gathered during a journey to the Antarctic from January 6-26th 2010, aboard the expedition sailboat 'Spirit of Sydney'.
Cardinal Points
The tenth volume in Irene Kopelman's 'Notes on Representation' series charts the artist's investigations through drawing, writing, and photographing during several trips to Argentina, where she joined groups of scientists on different research expeditions to observe their methodologies and various organisms and environments. She worked in Pampa de Achala with biologists dealing with invasive terrestrial species and studies of litter, with a team of ecologists investigating floral ecology in the Argentine Littoral, with a group studying invasions of marine organisms at a lab in Patagonia, and with geologists and palaeontologists working in the Ischigualasto Provincial Park and Jáchal.
Entanglement
This book is the result of the work Irene Kopelman produced during visits to the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute in Panama between 2012 and 2015. Without formal scientific training, Kopelman aimed to achieve an understanding of methods in field biology, and contacted three researchers to assist as interlocutors: Stuart J. Davies (forest ecology), Owen McMillan (adaptive variation), and Bill Wcislo (animal behaviour). Her drawings include the forms of woody vines, mangrove roots, and randomly scattered crab pellets in the sand.
The Molyneux Problem
Kopelman described five projects dealing intensively with research, traveling, observing, and drawing. Her descriptions and work notes give insight in Kopelman's relation to sience and point at the distinction between what one knows and what one sees. More than showing results she shares a mental process evolving in every project. In Meditation Piece she draws a tiny desert stone for a month on a daily base. Halfway she notes: 'And still, I like spending time in front of the stone, in front of a problem that repeats itself every day. It's a familiar feeling, and therefor gentle to the mind. How will I go about today? The stone is the same; I am most probably not.' The text has been adapted from her doctoral dissertation, defended in September 2011.
Looking at Trees
Book with two series of drawings by Kopelman entitled "Dots in Tree" and "Tree Drawings". Edition of 400 copies, signed and numbered by the artist.
A for Alibi
How does science transform observations into scientific facts? What is the role of interpretation in the construction of knowledge? How could art re-signify a historical process? Such are some of the questions raised in A for Alibi, a book which explores the boundaries of scientific practice and art. In the last few decades, a new branch of historical studies, called "experimental history" has begun to investigate scientific processes from a particular perspective, derived from a "hands-on" methodology. Scientific instruments are utilized and combined to become a direct source that leads to an understanding not just of scientific history but also of scientific practice. Similar to contempora...
The Routledge Companion to Research in the Arts
The Routledge Companion to Research in the Arts is a major collection of new writings on research in the creative and performing arts by leading authorities from around the world. It provides theoretical and practical approaches to identifying, structuring and resolving some of the key issues in the debate about the nature of research in the arts which have surfaced during the establishment of this subject over the last decade. Contributions are located in the contemporary intellectual environment of research in the arts, and more widely in the universities, in the strategic and political environment of national research funding, and in the international environment of trans-national coopera...
Art and Climate Change
Global awareness of climate change is increasing, and the scientific evidence is incontrovertible: an environmental crisis is upon us. Art and Climate Change presents an overview of ecologically conscious contemporary art that addresses the climate emergency, as artists across the world call for an active, collective engagement with the planet, and illuminate some of the structures that threaten humanitys survival. Across five chapters, curators Maja and Reuben Fowkes examine artworks that respond to the Anthropocene and its detrimental impact on our world, from scenes of nature decimated by ongoing extinction events and landscapes turned to waste by extraction, to art from marginalized communities most affected by the injustice of climate change. What guides the artists gathered together here is an ardent concern for the living, breathing subject of the Earth and all fellow terrestrials caught up in this fast-moving climate drama.
