What does it mean to love nature when many of us doubt that it still exists? – We Make Money Not Art
What does it mean to be an ecophile, a true lover of nature in an age when most of us struggle to even recognise nature? When landscapes are artificialised, when the distinction between natural and man-made catastrophes is increasingly blurred and when biotechnology designs living species to satisfy our capitalistic and aesthetic whims? How pristine does nature have to be in order to gain our respect? Does nature even exist?
The three Ecophilia exhibitions of the ongoing Meta.Morf 2022 biennale for art and technology in Trondheim present artists who critically investigate the surprising manifestations that our ecophilia -our deep desire to connect with nature- can take. Women giving birth to endangered mammals; an alphabet for birdsong acting as a bridge between human and bird languages; an extinct bird coming back to Earth; an installation comparing the reactions of humans and plants to live music; a restaurant that used the
