The Entanglement of Eco Art and Eco-Phenomenology

This paper explores the potential of eco-phenomenology to address Anthropocene ecological crises and promote eco-justice, while criticizing the positivist foundations of environmental studies. It highlights phenomenology’s transformative power beyond academia by examining its affinities with eco art, which also emphasizes lived experience. Key concepts like earth, dwelling, and flesh are investigated to show how eco art works illuminate philosophical ideas and how phenomenology aids in interpreting and theorizing art. By drawing inspiration from art works that present the non-(re)presentable earth or wild being and engage with aesthetic categories like the uncanny and the non-an­thropocentric sublime, this paper outlines a draft of critical aesthetics focused on rehabilitating body and sensory perception, aiming to transcend traditional subject-object and nature-art dichotomies.