Natura : environmental aesthetics after landscape / edited by Jens Andermann, Lisa Blackmore, Dayron Carillo Morell.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Andermann, Jens.

Blackmore, Lisa.

Carrillo Morell, Dayron.

Series:

Think art (Zurich, Switzerland)

Think art

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Environment (Aesthetics).

Nature (Aesthetics).

Physical Description:

294 pages : illustrations (some color), maps ; 23 cm.

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Zurich : Diaphanes, [2018]

Summary:

Entangled with the interconnected logics of coloniality and modernity, the landscape idea has long been a vehicle for ordering human-nature relations. Yet at the same time, it has also constituted a utopian surface onto which to project a space-time 'beyond' modernity and capitalism. Amid the advancing techno-capitalization of the living and its spatial supports in transgenic seed monopolies, fracking and deep sea drilling, biopiracy, geo-engineering, aesthetic-activist practices have offered particular kinds of insight into the epistemological, representational, and juridical framings of the natural environment. This book asks in what ways have recent bio and eco-artistic turns moved on from the subject/object ontologies of the landscape-form? Moving from botanical explorations of early modernity, through the legacies of mid-twentieth century landscape design, up to artistic experimental recodings of New World nature in the 1960s and 1970s and to present struggles for environmental rights and against the precarization of the living, the critical essays and visual contributions included in Natura attempt to push thinking past fixed landscape forms through interdisciplinary encounters that encompass analyses of architectural sites and artworks; ecocritical perspectives on literary texts; experimental place-making practices; and the creation of material and visual ecologies that recognise the agency of non-human worlds.

Contents:

The Cosmic Garden p. 17 / Emanuele Coccia

Geomorphic Video p. 31 / Ursula Biemann

The Return of a Lake p. 51 / Maria Thereza Alves

Dissipating Darkness p. 61 / Genaro Amaro Altamirano

Humboldtian Landscapes p. 73 / Oliver Lubrich

Towards a Phanerology of Images: Karl Blossfeldt and the Skin of the World p. 111 / Eduardo Jorge de Oliveira

Cabaré Chinelo, Manaus p. 135 / Nuno Ramos

Aquatic Visions and Watery Sounds: Ruptures and Sutures in the Lacustrine Landscape of Modern Mexico City p. 145 / Dayron Carrillo Morell

Colonizing Flow: The Aesthetics of Hydropower and Post-Kinetic Assemblages in the Orinoco Basin p. 171 / Lisa Blackmore

Putrid, Precarious Landscapes: Province, Poverty, and the Poetics of Dispossession in Some Contemporary Latin American Works p. 199 / Álvaro Fernández Bravo

Solo es suelo lo que guarda el abismo - Only What Holds the Abyss is a Ground p. 223 / Javier Correa and Victoria Jolly and Ciudad Abierta

Necrolandscaping p. 237 / Jill H. Casid

Nach der Natur: Bio Art and Unspecific Lives p. 265 / Jens Andermann.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

9783035800531

3035800537

OCLC:

1020421178

Publisher Number:

99978847242