Aviva Rahmani (Author)
Aviva Rahmani is an ecoartist whose work has been exhibited,
published, and funded internationally. She is an affiliate with the
Institute for Arctic and Alpine Research at the University of
Colorado at Boulder and gained her PhD from the University of
Plymouth, UK.
Lucy R. Lippard (Foreword by)
Lucy Lippard is an internationally known writer, activist,
and curator. She has authored twenty-two books, has curated more
than fifty major exhibitions, and holds nine honorary degrees.
Lippard is the recipient of numerous awards, including a Guggenheim
Fellowship and two National Endowment for the Arts grants.
Rahmani brings us to the place where her art (which speaks of the
urgency of action and the lack of time to make change) is refracted
through her reflections of her life-moments in time as a process
through time. -- Hilary Robinson, Professor of Feminism, Art, and
Theory, Loughborough University, UK; editor of Feminism Art Theory:
An Anthology 1968-2014
In Divining Chaos Aviva Rahmani nails her own heart to the
Earth's gallery wall and invites us to examine it, a daunting
experience of critical life-moments revealing the complex dialectic
of violation. Yet, to fight ecocide and regain the symphony of
life, we must 'read' and 'listen' to her beautiful, beating heart,
an avatar of harmonia mundi. -- Glenn Albrecht,
environmental philosopher; author of Earth Emotions and
Solastalgia
Aviva Rahmani offers a memoir of anti-capitalist, anti-ecocidal
storytelling imbued with a deep and abiding faith that people and
art can interrupt and reinvent the status quo. In twinning deep
scientific and theoretical knowledge with her art, she manages a
near-impossible task of rendering the world as it is-precarious,
violent, dangerous, beautiful. -- Laura Raicovich, writer and
curator; author of Culture Strike: Art and Museums in an Age of
Protest and former director of the Queens Museum of Art
Aviva Rahmani's remarkable Divining Chaos is part
bildungsroman, part eco-action guidebook, part pandemic diary, and
part portrait of a turbulent time in American art and history. With
searing honesty, Rahmani presents her complex multidisciplinary
thinking as it has evolved through the twists and turns of a
tumultuous life. This is the story of a life in art that is also a
life in politics, science, and environmental- ism. And, in our dark
times, it is also a story of what we may still be able to do to
save our planet. -- Eleanor Heartney, art critic and curator;
author of Art & Today and Doomsday Dreams
Divining Chaos is a compelling and courageous memoir of
historical importance, written by a central figure in the emergence
of ecofeminist art. Aviva Rahmani makes clear that the same
entrenched systems of power enable the abuse of women and the abuse
of nature. Her personal experiences of trauma might well have
defeated her. Instead, they seemingly empowered her to become a
strong and persistent advocate for ecological issues through her
artwork, and to challenge the status quo in innovative and
effective ways. -- Julie Reiss, PhD, editor of Art, Theory and
Practice in the Anthropocene
In Divining Chaos she nails her own heart to the Earth's
gallery wall and invites us to examine it, a daunting experience of
critical life-moments revealing the complex dialectic of violation.
-- Glenn Albrecht, environmental philosopher; author of Earth
Emotions and Solastalgia
Aviva Rahmani offers a memoir of anti-capitalist, anti-ecocidal
storytelling imbued with a deep and abiding faith that people and
art can interrupt and reinvent the status quo. In twinning deep
scientific and theoretical knowledge with her art, she manages a
near-impossible task of rendering the world as it is-precarious,
violent, dangerous, beautiful. -- Laura Raicovich, author of
Culture Strike: Art and Museums in an Age of Protest and former
director of the Queens Museum of Art
Aviva Rahmani's remarkable Divining Chaos is part
bildungsroman, part eco-action guidebook, part pandemic diary, and
part portrait of a turbulent time in American art and history. With
searing honesty, Rahmani presents her complex multidisciplinary
thinking as it has evolved through the twists and turns of a
tumultuous life. -- Eleanor Heartney, art critic and curator;
author of Art & Today and Doomsday Dreams
Divining Chaos is a compelling and courageous memoir of
historical importance, written by a central figure in the emergence
of ecofeminist art. Aviva Rahmani makes clear that the same
entrenched systems of power enable the abuse of women and the abuse
of nature. -- Julie Reiss, PhD, editor of Art, Theory and Practice
in the Anthropocene
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