Student Assembly
S.A. Passes Bill Urging University to Oppose Local Pipeline, Cut Ties with Wells Fargo
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“Having these local pipelines is … eventually in the long-run, going to hurt [Cornell’s] environmental goals.”
Activism
COLLINS | Aviva Rahmani’s Blued Trees and the Fight Against Pipelines
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The relationship between art and law in the United States often seems to be characterized by the latter settling issues about the production and consumption of the former. Artists and consumers have taken to the courts to settle issues about the boundaries of obscenity, fair use and various other issues. A large part of what makes eco-artist Aviva Rahmani’s Blued Trees captivating is Rahmani’s desire to flip the script and use art as a tool to achieve legal gains. This is not to say that Blued Trees is purely a legal maneuver. The work, which consists of “tree ‘notes’” painted with a “slurry of non-toxic ultramarine blue pigment and buttermilk” to “form discreet 1/3 mile long ‘measures’ in the symphony,” functions on multiple levels: musical, spatial, visual.