@article{ART002895094},
author={Seunghan Paek},
title={Staying with the Climate Change: Focused on an Analysis of Maya Lin’s Ghost Forest},
journal={The Journal of Aesthetics and Science of Art},
issn={1229-0246},
year={2022},
volume={67},
pages={238-261},
doi={10.17527/JASA.67.0.10}
TY - JOUR
AU - Seunghan Paek
TI - Staying with the Climate Change: Focused on an Analysis of Maya Lin’s Ghost Forest
JO - The Journal of Aesthetics and Science of Art
PY - 2022
VL - 67
IS - null
PB - 한국미학예술학회
SP - 238
EP - 261
SN - 1229-0246
AB - This article analyzes Maya Lin’s “last memorial” project entitled Ghost Forest (2021), through which to explore how one can make relationships and “stay” with the climate crisis without supposing smooth and immediate resolutions of the Anthropocene. As the most recent work in the What is Missing? project, Ghost Forest consists of 49 dead cedars moved from New Jersey to Madison Square Park in Manhattan for around six months. Lin installed the trees in a busy public park, and thus generated an irony that people come across so-called ‘corpses’ as part of daily life, whether they are conscious of it or not. Meanwhile, Lin also conceives her project in terms of a linear temporality and causal relationship regarding climate change, which is conflicted with her speculative approach toward trees. The fact that Ghost Forest is rationally driven but also deeply affective is not easily resolved in her work. In order to rethink such a conflict, this article takes Donna Haraway’s claim of “staying with the trouble” as a threshold, thereby highlighting the instances of partial recovery and speculative practices with trees that are inherent in the work but not further articulated by the artist.
KW - Climate Change;Climate Crisis;Donna Haraway;Maya Lin;The Anthropocene
DO - 10.17527/JASA.67.0.10
ER -
Seunghan Paek. (2022). Staying with the Climate Change: Focused on an Analysis of Maya Lin’s Ghost Forest. The Journal of Aesthetics and Science of Art, 67, 238-261.
Seunghan Paek. 2022, "Staying with the Climate Change: Focused on an Analysis of Maya Lin’s Ghost Forest", The Journal of Aesthetics and Science of Art, vol.67, pp.238-261. Available from: doi:10.17527/JASA.67.0.10
Seunghan Paek "Staying with the Climate Change: Focused on an Analysis of Maya Lin’s Ghost Forest" The Journal of Aesthetics and Science of Art 67 pp.238-261 (2022) : 238.
Seunghan Paek. Staying with the Climate Change: Focused on an Analysis of Maya Lin’s Ghost Forest. 2022; 67 238-261. Available from: doi:10.17527/JASA.67.0.10
Seunghan Paek. "Staying with the Climate Change: Focused on an Analysis of Maya Lin’s Ghost Forest" The Journal of Aesthetics and Science of Art 67(2022) : 238-261.doi: 10.17527/JASA.67.0.10
Seunghan Paek. Staying with the Climate Change: Focused on an Analysis of Maya Lin’s Ghost Forest. The Journal of Aesthetics and Science of Art, 67, 238-261. doi: 10.17527/JASA.67.0.10
Seunghan Paek. Staying with the Climate Change: Focused on an Analysis of Maya Lin’s Ghost Forest. The Journal of Aesthetics and Science of Art. 2022; 67 238-261. doi: 10.17527/JASA.67.0.10
Seunghan Paek. Staying with the Climate Change: Focused on an Analysis of Maya Lin’s Ghost Forest. 2022; 67 238-261. Available from: doi:10.17527/JASA.67.0.10
Seunghan Paek. "Staying with the Climate Change: Focused on an Analysis of Maya Lin’s Ghost Forest" The Journal of Aesthetics and Science of Art 67(2022) : 238-261.doi: 10.17527/JASA.67.0.10
