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What is it about?

This essay uses Nancy Holt's and Robert Smithson's artists film Mono Lake 1968/2004 as a pretext to explore ecology, viruses and art's relation to planetary thinking in the context of COVID-19. Written in an evocative style that mimics Holt's writings on the making of the film, it argues for the necessity of a planetary poetics of art in which the personal and the transpersonal are interrelated.

Why is it important?

My essay offers an alternative to an activist and/or an instrumental use of art in relation to ecology, arguing that a poetics of art is also important to changing how we think about planet.

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