Episode 24: Linda Weintraub, Tuesday, April 6th, 2021
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Linda Weintraub, eco-artist, curator, author
Linda Weintraub’s life embodies the life-performative endeavor of reconfiguring and contextualizing familiar social and internal human behavior, cultural references and belief systems - and repurposing hers and our interactivities toward a perpetual balancing and interdependency of society and nature.
“LW: I would be a wife, mother, grandmother, gardener, bee-keeper, chicken/ duck/ turkey/ goose/ rabbit/ lamb/ pig raiser, orchard tender, berry grower, stone wall builder, compost maker, food preserver, maple syrup maker. In fact, it is my great fortune to be all these things as well as an artist, writer, publisher, curator.” ~ Linda Weintraub, Roll Magazine, 2012
Her 2013 book, To Life: Eco Art in Pursuit of a Sustainable Planet, defines a movement whose disparate approaches and media, range from tissue culture, microbes and soil to meteorological instruments, wastewater treatment plants and meetings with municipal workers - represent artists’ moral reckoning with global ecological threats.
“Comparing the fluid aesthetics of ecosystems and the rigid aesthetics of engineered environments, for example, demonstrates that aesthetic ingredients embody social values and worldviews. As an eco artist, I rely upon aesthetics to convey the patterns that foster stewardship of our planet.” ~ Linda Weintraub, interview with Thyrza Nichols, 2019.
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