The Endless Summer: How Digital Art Urges for New Ecologies

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John Gerrard marks the vacant site of Lucas Gusher with an oil-burning flag warning of the ultimate outcomes of capitalism. — John Gerrard, Western Flag (Spindletop, Texas), 2017, video still. Courtesy of the artist, Thomas Dane Gallery, London, and Simon Preston Gallery, New York.

By Marie Chatel

“Are we just secretly yearning for an endless summer?” asks Pedro Gadanho, director of Lisbon’s MAAT Museu de Arte in Eco-visionaries (2019) and, frankly, who would say no to that. But while this question might have appeared innocent a few years back, the tide has turned. From Greta Thunberg’s 15-days sailboat journey across the Atlantic to the…

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