Referenced by Other Writers
Inspiring Ecological Discussion
Many of Aviva Rahmani’s projects and ideas have been discussed by other writers in the field of ecological and environmental art. Her Blued Trees Symphony and its legal premises about Earth rights and environmental justice have sparked extensive discussion about eminent domain takings by private fossil fuel corporations, along with the relationship between copyright law and common good. She inspired other art and legal activists trying to explore new strategies that challenge current legal norms that protect ecocide.
“Blued Trees has come to symbolize — in a powerfully visual way — the absurdity of a political system that props up the rights of corporations.”
— Audrea Lim. Image: Robin Boucher
“Aviva Rahmani argues that many entrenched political issues can be addressed with artistic thinking and a focus on human relationships.”
— Isaac Kaplin
“Their feminism centers on the interconnections of society, nature, and the cosmos.”
— Eleanor Heartney, discussing Aviva Rahmani, Agnes Denes, Helen and Newton Harrison (The Harrisons) Betsy Damon and Bonnie Ora Sherk.
“This is a story about how art, activism and trees joined together in song.”
— Gusti Bogok.
Referenced in Journals & Articles
How the Ecological Art Practices of Today Were Born in 1970s Feminism
Heartney, Eleanor. Art in America May, 2020
https://www.artnews.com/art-inamerica/features/ecofeminism-women-in-environmental-art-1202688298/ Al-Sweel, Ruba, One-on-One interview for Canvas Magazine November/ December 146-147.
This Nonprofit Is Willing to Bet That Art Can Change the World
Kaplan, Isaac. Artsy May 1https://www.artsy.net/article/artsy-editorial-nonprofit-bet-art-change 2017
Art, Copyright, and Activism: Could the Intersection of Environmental Art and Copyright Law Provide a New Avenue for Activists to Protest Various Forms of Exploitation?
Bajaj, Jaya. Northwestern Journal of Technology and Intellectual Property 15, No 1.
How Land Art Lived and Died to Stop a Fracked Gas Pipeline and How It Lives Again
Lim, Audrea. Village Voice available at: https://www.villagevoice.com/2016/06/29/how-landart-lived-and-died-to-stop-a-fracked-gas-pipeline-and-how-it-lives-again/ June 27 2016.
Local Activists Use Art to Block Pipeline
Rossi, Izzy. Collegiate Times, November 19
http://www.collegiatetimes.com/news/local-activists-useartt.blockpipeline/article_33bfd510-ae9a-11e6-8034-1719d6c51df1.html
Art Raises Awareness about Trees in Pipeline's Path
Gresham. Hunter. Virginia Tech website posting, available online: https://vtnews.vt.edu/articles/2016/11/110816-dsabluedtrees.html November 4.
Trash Talk, Eco-Activist Artwork and Sustainable Creativity
Stambouli, Anissa. (pages 180 - 182) published by the online magazine, INSPADES.
An artist uses her creativity to fight the construction of natural gas pipelines
Averett, Nancy. Earth Island Journal June 16 http://www.earthisland.org/journal/index.php/elist/eListRead/copyrighting_nature/
Earth Day EcoArt Confronts Deforestation, Fracking, Nuclear Hazards In Eastern US Woodlands
Denson, Roger. Huffington Post: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/g-rogerdenson/earth-day-ecoart-confront_b_9721354.html April, 21.
Landowners Put Hope in Art Project to Combat Pipeline
Williams, Wes. WVTF.org online publication available at: http://wvtf.org/post/landowners-put-hope-art-project-combatpipeline#stream/0 April, 19.
Memphis Social' Vast project spans breadth of city's arts scene
2015 Koeppel, Frederic. The Commercial Appeal [Memphis] 9 May 2013: 1M and 4M. Print. Ingram, Mrill. “Washing urban water: diplomacy in environmental art in the Bronx, New York City.” Gender, Place & Culture: A Journal of Feminist Geography. Available online: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/0966369X.2013.769429
Aviva Rahmani’s Blued Trees and the Fight Against Pipelines
Collins, Shay. The Cornell Daily Sun online publication available at: http://cornellsun.com/2015/12/03/aviva-rahmanisblued-trees-and-the-fight-against-pipelines/ December 3.
Nine Artists Respond to Climate Change
Baumgardner, Julie. Artsy September 22 https://www.artsy.net/article/artsy-editorial-nine-artists-respond-to-climate-change
Art and Activism: The Blued Trees symphonic movement to put ‘public’ back in ‘public benefit
Bogok, Gusti.” readersupportednews.org August 28, 2015 http://readersupportednews.org//index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=32089
Blued Trees. Art to Stop a Pipeline?
Clarity. Sane Energy Project, online publication July 26 available at: https://saneenergyproject.org/2015/07/26/blued-trees-art-to-stop-a-pipeline/
Art to Stop a Pipeline
Steinhauer, Jillian. Hyperallergic, September 9 http://hyperallergic.com/235429/using-art-to-stop-a-pipeline/
Referenced in Books
Undermining: A Wild Ride Through Land Use, Politics, and Art in the Changing West
Lippard, Lucy. New York: New Press. 2014.
Art and Sustainability; Connecting Patterns for a Culture of Complexity
Kagan, Sacha. Bielefeld: transcript Verlag. 2011.
At the Limit of Form: The Ethics of Contemporary Earth Art.
Boetzkes, Amanda. Published by University of Minnesota Press. 2010.
Everything Will Be Fine
Kagan, Sacha & Steinbrugge, Bettina. Eds. Germany: Universitat Lueneberg. 2008.
Feminists Who Changed America, 1963-1975.
Love, Barbara J. and Cott, Nancy F. Chicago: University of Illinois Press. 2006.
The Lure of the Local
Lippard, Lucy. New York: The New Press. 1997.
The Power of Feminist Art.
Braude, Norma and Garrard, Mary D., Eds. New York: Abrams. 1994.
Leonardo Almanac
Harris, Craig. Massachusetts: MIT Press. 1993.
Crossing Over: Feminism and Art of Social Concern
Raven, Arlene, Ed. Art in the Public Interest. Michigan: UMI Press. Raven, Arlene. Michigan: UMI Research Press. 1988
Through the Flower
Chicago, Judy. New York: Doubleday. 1975.