Introducing Marg’s first dedicated issue to art and ecology, the Associate Editor places the current magazine in the context of the severe climate crisis affecting earth and its human and more-than-human inhabitants. She provides the framework within which the essays in this volume will unpack and critically assess the term “Anthropocene” and provide counter-narratives from the Global South that challenge the assumptions and domination of the Global North. These include perspectives on gender, class, caste, labour, ritual and mythology. The larger aim is to look at aesthetic objects beyond the limited circuits of the commercial art world and get them to engage with environmental justice and social justice movements.

Art and Ecology
Guest editor: Ravi Agarwal
MARG – A Magazine of the Arts
March 20, 2020

Guest edited by Ravi Agarwal – Resident editor: Omita Goyal. With a galaxy of wonderful contributors from across various spectrums.

Edited by Ravi Agarwal, Florian Matzner and Helmut Schippert
Publisher: Speaking Tiger

2 person show Francois Daireaux and Ravi Agarwal – Gallery Espace, Bonjour India, France in India, December 2017

Edingburgh Art Festival, 2018. Lithographs, Toyota Etchings, Photographs, Videos, Found Object

Artist’s Diary and 2 Catalogues relating to this body of work

Dairy of the ecological underpinnings of traditional marigold growing on the riverbanks in Delhi

The story of the near extinction of the South Asian Vulture

Diary of a social and political ecology of the river Yamuna in New Delhi

Jan Breman, Arvind N. Das. Photographs Ravi Agarwal

Catalogue in PDF for “Flux: Dystopia, Utopia, Heterotopia.” Gallery Espace, 2011

Wexler, P. (Ed.), van der Kolk, J. (Ed.), Mohapatra, A. (Ed.), Agarwal, R. (Ed.). (2012). Chemicals, Environment, Health. Boca Raton: CRC Press