Ecological Performance Art

In the eyes of ecologists, developmentalism and anthropocentrism are complementary. The beginning of modern humanism is the result of human rebellion against divinity. The industrial revolution has made science and technology a new religion, and man has emerged from nature and lost it. The reverence for nature no longer regards oneself as the son of the earth, and no longer sympathizes and treats all things in nature. It is precisely because of this that humans dare to regard nature as the object of social development that must be conquered and plundered. All natural resources are treated for free. It is true that satisfying self-consumption desire becomes the sole purpose. This development concept obliterates the evolutionary laws of the natural environment itself, and also ignores the value of nature to the human spirit. This is a deep drawback of modern civilization. Therefore, eco-criticism proposes that to establish a new development concept and reshape a new development model, humans must re-recognize the value of the wilderness, regain their devotion to nature and care for the earth.

The contradiction between human existence and nature protection is difficult to reconcile: when people can survive, they feel that those "mysterious animals" have their "sneaky dignity,... they really look like a member of your family, and their emotions reach out." You can touch", but "when there is no way but only hands, he must plot the mountains around him, hunting, and logging.... Everyone is a destroyer, as long as you live in the mountains." How sad and helpless this is!

The jungle is also a kind of culture. In the process of urbanization, the unified development model based on the West will inevitably bring about the destruction of ecological and biological diversity. The destruction of nature is accompanied by the destruction of culture. Ecological extinction is actually a kind of "culture". "Extinction" (ethnocide), the destruction of diverse ecology hurts the consciousness of human homeland contained in nature, and strangles human souls and beautiful nature. This is an unquestionable fact. Then, as Andrei Love said: "As the necessary antidote to avoid the singularization and mechanization of the world, and the slaves of human beings to machines, art is necessary.

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