Every month, Alice Audouin, art & sustainability curator and expert, founder of Art of Change 21 and Impact Art News, explores a new theme and selects the cream of the crop within the art, fashion, and design worlds.
Art, Sex and Forests – the second installment of our new series by the wonderful Alice
1. Convert art into acres
Thanks to Art into Acres, artists convert their artworks into rainforest protection. Read the interview of Haley Melin, artist and founder of Art intro Acres, by Impact Art News, the art newsletter of Art of Change 21.
2. Buy digital art and help the Irish forest
Launched on the 18th of June, the new generative art series by Irish digital artist John Gerrard is helping restore Ireland’s temperate rainforest. Hosted by Feral File, an online platform for digital art, the series, titled “crystalline work,” offers dozens of collectable digital works a day for the next 12 months.
3. Make love with forests
The ecoqueer Chinese artist Zheng Bo explores the concept of plant sexuality and the richness of interspecies relationships. In Le Sacre du printemps (Tandvärkstallen) Zheng collaborated with five Nordic male dancers in a forest in Dalarna, Sweden, feeding the collective sexual desires of the pine trees and moss.
Zheng Bo, Le Sacre du printemps, 2021-22. 4K, color, sound, 16 min. Courtesy the artist and Kiang Malingue (Hong Kong) For the 59th Venice Biennale
4. Make a phone call to the Ecuador Rainforest
Head to this website and be soothed by the sounds of the Ecuadorian Cloud Forest.
“Calls for Action marks a bold new direction by French-Swiss artist Julian Charrière, who in a series of participatory interventions bridges the world of contemporary art with large-scale forest conservation. Consisting of two-way livestreams between cultural institutions and endangered natural landscapes, Calls for Action stages an encounter beyond mere spectatorship where through the act of listening and speaking into the forest, we can also speak out on its behalf.(…)”
Julian Charrière, Calls for Action, Western Andean Cloud Forest, Ecuador, 2024
5.Masturbate for the forest
Erotic activist initiative Fuck for Forest was created 20 years ago in Norway and continues to gather a community of 8,000 amateurs, nudists, erotic activists and artists from all over the planet, donating their sex & nude photos and videos to FuckForForest. The money collected by the eco-porn tribe is used for nature protection.
18+ please 😉
6. Wood is new Black
Drop cotton or silk, go to wood. Select brands using Rayon fabrics such as Viscose, Modal and Lyocell they are all part of a group of regenerated cellulose fibers wood-based fabrics in the example of Stella McCartney sourced from ethical forests in Sweden! We also see application at Patagonia or French brand “Olisitic the Label”! And apart from being nice to the planet, they also feel super nice to wear 🙂 Win, win!
Selection & Text by Alice Audouin
