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Click here for a PDF version of Basia Irland's résumé, including a full bibliography of works about and by Basia and listings of exhibitions, lectures, etc.
Select Bibliography (About Basia)
Book (monograph) 2023 - Basia Irland, Repositories: Portable Sculptures for Waterway Journeys. By Patricia Watts. Santa Fe, New Mexico: ecoartspace Publications. 152 pages, full color. See page about the book in Projects section
Books (containing references to Basia's work) 2022 - 新しいエコロジーとアート──「まごつき期」としての人新世 [Art and the New Ecology: the Anthropocene as a ‘dithering time’]. Edited by Yuko Hasegawa. Tokyo: Ibunsha. Pp. 98-100. In Japanese. 2022 - Contemporary Art and Feminism. By Jacqueline Millner and Catriona Moore. London and New York: Routledge. Pp. 187-188. 2021 - Count. By Valerie Martínez. Tuscon: The University of Arizona Press. Cover image, p. 40. 2020 - Albuquerque Museum Art Collection: Common Ground. By Josie Lopez, Lacey Chrisco, and Andrew Conners. Santa Fe: Museum of New Mexico Press. Pp. 65, 178. 2019 - Arte con la naturaleza: Acciones artístico-científicas para el siglo XXI [Art with Nature: Artistic-Scientific Actions for the 21st Century]. By Carmen Gracia. Valencia: Tirant Humanidades. Pp. 291-300. In Spanish. 2018 - Rivers and Society: Landscapes, Governance and Livelihoods. Edited by Malcolm Cooper, Abhik Chakraborty, and Shamik Chakraborty. London and New York: Routledge. Pp. 186-193. 2016 - L’eau de l’art contemporain: Une dynamique d’une esthétique écosophique [Water in Contemporary Art: A Dynamic of Ecosophical Aesthetics]. By Patrick Marty. Paris: L’Harmattan. Pp. 77-79. In French. 2015 - Art & Science (2nd ed.). By Eliane Strosberg. New York: Abbeville Press. Pp. 238-239. 2015 - Visualizing Albuquerque: Art of Central New Mexico. By Joseph Traugott. Albuquerque, New Mexico: Albuquerque Museum. Pp. 146, 150. 2014 - Art & Ecology Now. By Andrew Brown. London: Thames & Hudson. Pp. 220, 221. 2014 - Undermining: A Wild Ride Through Land Use, Politics, and Art in the Changing West. By Lucy R. Lippard. New York: The New Press. P. 62. 2010 - Art and Politics Now: Cultural Activism in a Time of Crisis. By Susan Noyes Platt. New York: Midmarch Arts Press. Pp. 288-290, 297. 2010 - The Book of Symbols: Reflections on Archetypal Images. Archive for Research in Archetypal Symbolism. Edited by Kathleen Martin. Cologne: Taschen. P. 357. 2010 - The Ethics of Earth Art. By Amanda Boetzkes. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press. Pp. 23, 40-42, 185, 194-196, back cover photo. 2010 - Art + Science Now. By Stephen Wilson. London: Thames & Hudson. Pp. 42, 66. 2009 - Green Guide for Artists: Nontoxic Recipes, Green Art Ideas, & Resources for the Eco-Conscious Artist. By Karen Michel. Beverly, Massachusetts: Quarry Books. Pp. 120-123. 2009 - Land/Art New Mexico. Santa Fe, New Mexico: Radius Books. Pp. 126, 145. 2005 - Performing Nature: Explorations in Ecology and the Arts. By Gabriella Giannachi and Nigel Stewart. Bern and Oxford: Peter Lang. Pp. 208-211. 2004 - Ecological Aesthetics: Art in Environmental Design; Theory and Practice. By Heike Strelow. Basel, Berlin, and Boston: Birkhäuser Architecture. In German and English. P. 197. 2003 - Women Artists of the American West. Edited by Susan R. Ressler. Jefferson, North Carolina: McFarland & Company. Pp. 190, 315, image “T” in color plates. 2002 - Ecovention: Current Art to Transform Ecologies. By Sue Spaid and Amy Lipton. Cincinnati, Ohio: Contemporary Art Center, Ecoartspace, and Greenmuseum.org. Pp. 49-51, 140-141.
Articles and Other Media 2023 - “Can Artists Channel the Force of Water?” By Nancy Zastudil. Hyperallergic, May 31. Link to article (Hyperallergic website with text and photos) 2021 - “Flow and Integration in the River Basin: Interview with Basia Irland.” By Olivia Ann Carye Hallstein. ecoartspace, November 1. See link on the Interviews page 2021 - “A River Reverie: Basia Irland.” By Greg Polk. Video interview (9:33) Link to interview (Vimeo video) 2020 - “Lamentation.” By WEAD (Women Eco Artists Dialog). CSPA Quarterly (Centre for Sustainable Practice in the Arts), Issue 30 (December), cover image, pp. 38-43. 2020 - “Pandemic Elegy: Basia Irland.” By Pamela Allara, Mark Auslander, and Ellen Schattschneider. Art Beyond Quarantine, August 8. Link to article (Art Beyond Quarantine website with text and photos) 2020 - “Basia Irland at Axle Contemporary.” By Michael Abatemarco. Pasatiempo, August 7. Link to article (Pasatiempo website with text and photo) 2020 - “A Really Smart Project.” By Adrian Gomez. Albuquerque Journal, August 2. 2020 - “The Written Image: Ice Receding/Books Reseeding.” By Emma Komlos-Hrobsky. Poets & Writers, March/April. 2020 - “When Water Speaks for Itself.” By Susan Hoffman Fishman. Artists & Climate Change, January 27. 2019 - “Artysta naturę ratuje” [The Artist Saves Nature]. By Piotr Sarzyński. Polityka, March 26, pp. 76-79. In Polish; original title from print version of article is “Szerokie eko” [Wide Eco]. Link to article in Polish (Polityka website with text and photos) 2018 - “Reading the River. Basia Irland: artist, ecologist, activist.” By Karen Thomas. The Environment: The Magazine for the Chartered Institution of Water and Environmental Management, October. See link on the Interviews page 2018 - “Reading the River.” By Richard Bright. Interalia Magazine, September. See link on the Interviews page 2018 - “In the Midst of Worldwide Water Scarcity, an Artist Reminds Us, ‘We Are Water.’” By Dahr Jamail. Truthout, March 19. 2017 - “Basia Irland ve uluslararası su sorunları [Basia Irland and International Water Issues].” By Ahunur Özkarahan. Yeşil Gazete, September 2. Link to article in Turkish (Yeşil Gazete website with text and photos) 2015 - “Basia Irland Reading the River: Het belang van water voor het leven op deze planeet” [The Importance of Water for Life on This Planet]. UIT Magazine, December. PDF version of article in Dutch (0.5MB) 2015 - “Wondere wereld van water en boeken” [Wonderful World of Water and Books]. By Marjolein Welling. Dagblad De Limburger, December 7. PDF version of article in Dutch (0.2MB) 2015 - “IJsboeken voor de natuur” [Ice Books on Nature]. By Job Tiems. Dagblad De Limburger, September 5. PDF version of article in Dutch (0.2MB) 2015 - “These Ice Books Transport Seeds and Reforest Lands.” By María González de Léon. Faena Aleph, February 3. Link to article (Faena Aleph website with text and photos) 2014 - “Art Can Show Us What’s Wrong with Our Planet.” By Becca Cudmore. Nautilus, December 8. Link to article (Nautilus website with text and photos) 2014 - “¡COLORES! Basia Irland.” ¡COLORES! (TV show), New Mexico PBS, June 13. 2013 - “Basia Irland’s Gathering of Waters: An Invitation to Know Your River.” By Mark B. Feldman. Sculpture 32, no. 7 (September), pp. 56-61. 2013 - “Books of Ice: Sculptures by Basia Irland.” By Kathleen Dean Moore. Orion Magazine, March/April, pp. 52-59. 2011 - “Visiting Artist Presents Art on Local Environmental Issues.” By Anna Morris. The Colonnade, April 7. PDF version of article (1.2MB) 2011 - “A New Water Ethic.” By Merrell-Ann Phare and Robert Sandford. Alternatives Journal 37.1 (January/February). 2010 - “Project Organized to Raise Awareness of Deckers Creek Health.” Dominion Post (Morgantown, West Virginia), April 12. PDF version of article (0.3MB) 2008 - “Basia Irland, Eco-Artist.” By Amanda Sutton. Albuquerque: The Magazine 5, no. 3 (July), pp. 160-162. 2008 - “The Autobiography of H2O, as Told to Basia Irland.” By Miriam Sagan. Santa Fe New Mexican, January 18-24. 2007 - “A Gathering of Waters, Boulder Creek: Continental Divide to Confluence, by Basia Irland.” THE Magazine, September, p. 43. 2005 - “Water Library.” By Valerie Roybal. Quantum: Research, Scholarship and Creative Works at the University of New Mexico, 2005, pp. 26-30. 2004 - “Speaking an Ecological Language.” By Jhalak Bhavsar. Times of India, December 23. 2004 - “Basia Irland’s Work Is Based on Water.” Indian Express, December 22. 2004 - “Gujarat Needs a Basia Irland.” People’s Science Institute Magazine, Ahmedabad, India (December). In Gujarati. 2002 - “A Water Conservation Masterpiece.” By Delaney Hall. Albuquerque Tribune, July 24, pp. A1, A4. 2001 - “A Confluence of Community: Gathering the Waters of the Rio Grande.” By Craig Smith. Orion Afield 5 (Winter), pp. 28-30. 2001 - “Navigating the Currents.” Interview by David Williams. Performance Research 6, no. 3, pp. 113-122. 1999 - “Water Works.” By Wesley Pulkka. Albuquerque Journal, April 18. PDF version of article (0.9MB) 1997 - “A Gathering of Waters: Approaching Water Issues through Artful Life.” By Valerie Roybal. Quantum: Research, Scholarship and Creative Works at the University of New Mexico, Spring. 1996 - “Gathering of Waters Draws Attention to the Río Grande.” By Evelina Zuni Lucero. Indian Country Today, November, pp. 18-25. 1994 - “Profile: Artist Basia Irland: A River Runs through Her.” By Sharon Niederman. Quantum: Research, Scholarship and Creative Works at the University of New Mexico, Spring, pp. 8-10. 1988 - “Basia Irland.” By Harmony Hammond. Artspace, Summer, pp. 12-16. 1985 - “Extensions of the Book.” Artweek 16, no. 27 (August 10).
Select Publications (By Basia)
Books 2017 - Reading the River: The Ecological Activist Art of Basia Irland. Edited by Museum De Domijnen and Basia Irland. Sittard, the Netherlands: Museum De Domijnen. See page about the book in Projects section 2007 - Water Library. Albuquerque, New Mexico: University of New Mexico Press. See page about the book in Projects section
Small Press Books 1996 - River Reciprocity. Albuquerque, New Mexico: Salient Seedling Press. Foldout book. 1996 - Water Cycle. Riverdale, Maryland: Pyramid Atlantic Press, and Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: Borowsky Center for Publication Arts, University of the Arts. Funded by the National Endowment for the Arts.
Book Contributions 2023 - “Contemplation Station II.” In Dark Mountain: Issue 24 – Eight Fires (Autumn), edited by Anthea Lawson and Steve Wheeler, p. 154. Southwold, United Kingdom: Dark Mountain Project. 2023 - “Rivers: An Artist's Perspective.” In River Culture — Life as a Dance to the Rhythm of the Waters, edited by Karl Matthias Wantzen, pp. 875-901. Paris: UNESCO. 2022 - “Ice Receding/Books Reseeding.” In Ecoart in Action: Activities, Case Studies, and Provocations for Classrooms and Communities, edited by Amara Geffen, Ann Rosenthal, Chris Fremantle, and Aviva Rahmani, pp. 203-208. New York: New Village Press. 2022 - “River Repositories.” In Dark Mountain: Volume 22 – Ark (3rd Quarter), edited by Neale Inglenook, Joanna Pocock, and Philip Webb Gregg, pp. 64-69. Southwold, United Kingdom: Dark Mountain Project. 2021 - “Cottonwood.” In Embodied Forest, edited by Patricia Watts, pp. 198-199, 202-203. Santa Fe, New Mexico: ecoartspace. 2021 - “Ice Receding/Books Reseeding.” In Dark Mountain: Issue 20 – Abyss (Autumn), edited by Nick Hunt, Joanna Pocock, Tom Smith, and Steve Wheeler, p. 226. Southwold, United Kingdom: Dark Mountain Project. 2020 - “Ice Receding/Books Reseeding: An Ephemeral Series of Hand-Carved Ice Books Reseeding Riparian Zones.” In Extraction: Art on the Edge of the Abyss, edited by Samuel Pelts, pp. 476-481. Berkeley, California: CODEX Foundation. 2017 - “Ice Receding/Books Reseeding.” In Downstream: Reimagining Water, edited by Dorothy Christian and Rita Wong, pp. 181-191. Waterloo, Ontario, Canada: Wilfrid Laurier University Press. 2016 - “Eco-Art.” In Keywords for Environmental Studies, edited by Joni Adamson, William A. Gleason, and David N. Pellow, pp. 60–61. New York: New York University Press. 2016 - “Ice Receding/Books Reseeding.” In Elemental: An Arts and Ecology Reader, edited by James Brady, cover image, pp. 25-39. Manchester, England: Gaia Project Press. 2016 - “Ice Receding/Books Reseeding.” In L’art de l’aigua: Aqua et ars in unum miscentur [The Art of Water: Water and Art Mixed into One], edited by Domènec Corbella, pp. 48-53. Barcelona, Spain: Universitat de Barcelona. 2013 - “An Ice Book Floats down the Karun River.” In Love and Pomegranates: Artists and Wayfarers on Iran, edited by Meghan Nuttall Sayres, pp. 211-212. Santa Ana, California: Nortia Press. 2005 - “A Concise Glimpse of Water in the History of Photography.” In Water Encyclopedia, 5 vols., edited by Jay H. Lehr and Jack Keeley, vol. 4, pp. 766-769. Westport, Connecticut: Wiley Press.
Articles and Other Media 2022 - “Ice Receding/Books Reseeding.” Public: Arts, Design, Humanities vol. 7, no. 1. Link to article (Public: Arts, Design, Humanities website with text and photos) 2020 - “Apothecary for Creeks and Other Living Beings.” SeedBroadcast agri-Culture Journal: Cultivating Diverse Varieties of Resilience, 15th ed. (Autumn), pp. 40-41, image p. 2. 2015 to 2017 - “What Rivers Know” essay series, originally posted to National Geographic's blog Water Currents: Insights into the Freshwater World. See River Essays page in Projects section (Chaobai River to Ping River essays) 2015 - “We Are This River.” TEDxVail. January 9, 2015. 2014 - “Ecological Artist Basia Irland and Her ‘Ice Books’ Engage Communities and Restore Rivers.” National Geographic (Water Currents blog). Introduction by Sandra Postel. January 9, 2014. 2010 - “Wild Water Art.” New Mexico WILD!, Spring, p. 11. 2007 - “Eco Art.” Elephant, Autumn, p. 68. 2007 - “River Reciprocity: A Gathering of Waters.” The New Quarterly: Canadian Writers and Writing 101 (Winter), pp. 38-48. 2003 - “Walkerton Life Vest.” The New Quarterly: New Directions in Canadian Writing 87 (Summer), pp. 33-37, 58-67. 1997 - “Running with the Water” and “Corriendo con el agua.” La Corriente, newsletter of the Río Bravo/Río Grande Sustainable Development Initiative, 5 (July), pp. 3, 11. 1996 - “A Gathering of Waters” and “Una coleccíon de las aguas.” La Corriente, newsletter of the Río Bravo/Río Grande Sustainable Development Initiative, 4 (September), pp. 4, 10. 1996 - “Po-weh’-geh, Un Juntamiento de Aguas, A Gathering of Waters.” Dialogue, New Mexico Water Dialogue newsletter, 5, no. 1 (March). |
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