Building Common Ground : Ecological Art Practices and Human-Nonhuman Knowledges.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Guaraldo, Emiliano.

Series:

The Future Contemporary Series

The Future Contemporary 77

Language:

English

Italian

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Venice, Italy : Edizioni Ca' Foscari - Digital Publishing, 2023.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This volume examines the entanglements between contemporary art practices, ecology, and non-human subjects through contributions from scholars, art writers, critics, artist-researchers and designers. The collected essays reveal contemporary art's potential to reorient epistemological and ontological coordinates amid ecological and existential crises, questioning human exceptionalism and the exploitative logics of extractivism and planetary industrialization. Central to the volume are issues of environmental degradation and violence, racial capitalism, colonial legacies, the emergence of the Anthropocene, in relation to the diverse terrain of contemporary art practices. Emphasizing the agency of more-than-human collaborators, from animals to microbial ecologies, and from oceans to nuclear waste, these practices expose injustices, reclaim damaged ecosystems, and propose alternative ways of being in and with the planet. Artist-researchers contribute perspectives that open up new avenues for knowledge creation in the disrupted landscapes of the Anthropocene, pointing to symbiotic relationships between humans and non-human entities that are only beginning to be explored. By sharing theoretical frameworks and languages, the artists' and writers' contributions make clear that the environmental crises impacting the ecosystems require new collaborations to build common epistemological grounds, and shared visions of planetary futures.

Contents:

Intro

11Preface

13Introduction

5Exploring the Role of Non-Human Animals in Contemporary Art: As Objects, Matter, and Collaborators

17Blackbird Songs: More-than-Human Aural Histories in the Anthropocene

29With the Wild

49Enchanted Cutaway: Nurturing Imaginations through Regrowth and Remembrance in the Altered Landscape of the Weald (UK)

63Uprooting Silicon Prairie

77Reintegrating Nuclear Knowledge Through Contemporary Art

93Metaspore: Cosmopolitical Biopolitics and Multispecies Potentialities in Anicka Yi's Ecoart

107Exploring the Plantationocene Through Works by Otobong Nkanga

119Wasting Trajectories and Generative Ecologies: Leone Contini's Foreign Farmers

131Just Who I Am

151Geological Pasts, Speculative Futures: A conversation with Beate Geissler and Oliver Sann

161Notes on Contributors

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