Exhibit Opening! “Ideas to Postpone the End of the World”: Artists Books and Archives towards Landels-Hill Big Creek Reserve

Join us on on Thursday, June 4th from 2:00–3:00pm for Ideas to Postpone the End of the World: Artists Books and Archives toward Landels-Hill Big Creek Reserve, a pop-up exhibition curated by MFA student SeeVa Dawne Kitslis!

Just a sliver of the wonderful artist book collection at Special Collections & Archives at UC Santa Cruz focused on how artists are negotiating their relationship with, through, and alongside the natural world.

The phrase, “ideas to postpone the end of the world”, is Krenak philosopher and writer, Ailton Krenak’s observation that both creativity and poetry can hold off ‘the sky from falling’ by preserving indigenous ways of life that are more integrated with the natural world. This collection of artist books tries to open up that cavity and showcase the diverse material modalities, timescales, and geographies of artists that connect with ecological storytelling.

“For a long time, we have been alienated from the organism to which we belong–the earth. So much so that we begin to think of Earth and Humanity as two separate entities. I can’t see anything on Earth that is not Earth. Everything I can think of is a part of nature.” -Ailton Krenak