SFEAP Philosophy: The South Florida Environmental Art Project (SFEAP) honors all forms of art that seek to raise awareness about environmental degradation, and to encourage/spark responsible public action to address it. Emphasis in all SFEAP programs is on Ecoart, the most engaged form of environmental art.
SFEAP Mission: To catalyze the emergence of a strong ecoart presence in South Florida through
Educational forums and symposia (click HERE to see a description of the FIRST of these programs)
Ecoartist residency development (click HERE to see a description of the first such residency-apprenticeship in Florida)
The watchword for ecoart practitioners is: "Art has a job to do." Ecoart features site-specific interventions aimed at political, social, ecological and geographical realities and contexts that have resulted in environmental degradation; and brings the causes of environmental degradation (and approaches to addressing them) greater visibility. The goal is public commitment to effective and responsible environmental stewardship.
Although objects (ephemeral or permanent) may be produced in the course of an ecoart project, ecoart is not about producing objects for display in museums or commercial galleries, or in outside venues. That said, descriptive documentation of ecoart projects, and interactive installations that reference particular ecoart interventions, have been, can and should be, brought into such settings.
Ecoartists do not limit themselves to one or a few aesthetic approaches, but engage any artistic practice or technique in order to accomplish a project’s goal. Collaboration between ecoartists and key stakeholders in environmental amelioration, including engineers, scientists and--especially, and often--entire communities, has become another important characteristic of this work that differentiates it from other forms of environmentally-engaged art practice.¹
¹ SFEAP is grateful to greenmuseum.org for its definition of ecoart. SFEAP has developed greenmuseum’s definition further, as above.
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