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Author: Laird, Tessa × End date: 2024 × Start date: 2020 × Type: Chapter ×

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    Vertiginous Viriditas: for a Planthropscene, not a Plantationocene
    Laird, T ; Green, C ; Cattapan, J (Art + Publishing, University of Melbourne, 2021)
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    Beastly Beauty: ecological entanglement via colour separation
    Laird, T ; Laird, T (National Gallery of Victoria, 2020)
    This chapter is a fictocritical response to the work Extinction, 2020, by the Italian Design duo Carnovsky. The article draws both on my background with colour studies (A Rainbow Reader, 2013), and animal studies (Bat, 2018). Responding to each colour Carnovsky has used in their installation (RGB - Red Green Blue) in relation to the IUCN red list of extinct and endangered animals, I weave a conversational text that is both about aesthetics and ecological politics. The text is deliberately poetic in order to evoke the beauty of the natural world, and of the work itself. But it also, like the work, hopes to engender reflection on the reality of the 6th Major Extinction Event.
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    Keep New Zealand Green
    Laird, T ; Stone, V (McCahon House Trust, 2020)
    This special publication marks the 100th anniversary of Colin McCahon's birth. To celebrate, over the course of a year, 66 authors, critics, and cultural commentators within New Zealand and beyond, reflect on the cultural legacy of McCahon via engagement with the McCahon artwork of their choice. Originally published online, this book consolidates all the texts in print form. My own contribution discusses McCahon's Keep New Zealand Green variations, a suite of paintings with environmental themes, through the lens of contemporary eco-feminism.