The Future of Art and the Environment

In his 1970 book, Future Shock, futurist writer Alvin Toffler said, “the illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who cannot read and write, but those who cannot learn, unlearn, and relearn.” Fast forward 50 years, and this idea is becoming more important than ever. From London’s Serpentine Gallery to the Institute of Queer Ecology in New York, Queer Ecology as a politics of refusal — of unlearning and relearning — is becoming an essential strategy to give new perspectives on our current environmental crisis, highlight systemic prejudices within capitalist structures, and allow for creative and utopic world-building. What is Queer Ecology as a project? <a href="https://medium.com/@laurietgbarron/the-future-of-art-and-the-environment-1d49f7dff14e">Read More</a>