TY - BOOK AU - Agarwal,Ravi AU - Matzner,Florian AU - Schippert,Helmut ED - State Lalit Kala Akademi (Tamil Nadu, India), TI - Embrace our rivers: public art and ecology in India SN - 9783735604675 U1 - 700.411 EMB PY - 2018///] CY - New Delhi, Bielefeld PB - Speaking Tiger Publishing, Kerber Verlag KW - Ecology in art KW - Exhibitions KW - Rivers in art KW - Public art KW - India KW - Installations (Art) KW - 21st century KW - Exhibition catalogs KW - fast N1 - Published to accompany exhibition at the Lalit Kala Akademi, Chennai, India, February 2-March 4, 2018. TB433/2019-20 Rs.1200/- N2 - Water contamination, air pollution, and resource scarcity?considerable environmental problems have come to threaten all large industrial nations around the world. Based on the concrete example of the South Indian city of Chennai, the exhibition project 'DAMned Art?Embrace Our Rivers' questions the possible social and political significance and function of art. The public art project in Chennai, curated by the Indian eco-activist and artist Ravi Agarwal and the German exhibition organizer Florian Matzner, is a cooperation between European and Indian artists and brings together more than a dozen future-oriented projects relating to the topic of?art and ecology.? The accompanying publication presents these fascinating art projects.00Exhibition: Lalit Kala Academy, Chennai, India (02.02.-04.03.2018) ER -