Eco-operations

The climate change crisis has become part of aesthetic discourse and critical research in culture and the arts. Future-oriented, ecologically conceived possibilities for action are being explored by artists, curators, and scholars alike. Eco-operations addresses these emerging aesthetic ecologies and new technologies of cooperation that both challenge and shape a sustainable future, foregrounding interruptions, ruptures, disconnections, dissonances, exclusions, and allochronism. Moving beyond the concepts of "flow" and "network" as a single, coherent (ecological or technological) system, Eco-operations instead emphasizes the frictions within asynchronously running systems. The infrastructures and formats of artistic production and exhibition play a central role here, as they themselves constitute ecosystems that invite and regulate processes of sharing and exchange. Artists and activists are embedded in these ecosystems, in which they simultaneously intervene when searching fo r alternative ways of creating collaborative practice. Bringing together scholars, artists, writers, and curators, and working across a range of disciplines, Eco-operations explores this field of tension between global and local ecologies, and aims to speculate on where dissonances imply both creative potential and political challenges.



With contributions by Dalida María Benfield, Ursula Biemann, Lisa Blackmore, T. J. Demos, Laura Flórez & Lorena García Cely, Sandra Frimmel, Alexandra Gelis, Liliana Gómez, Fabienne Liptay, Ana María Lozano, Uriel Orlow, Dorota Sajewska.

Inhaltsverzeichnis:

7 - 20 Eco-operations: An Introduction (Liliana Gómez, Fabienne Liptay)23 - 52 Feralization of Curatorial Practices: The Encounter Between Community Activists and Curators of Memory Centers (Liliana Gómez)23 - 52 Folding Landscapes and Critical Ecologies: Aesthetic Re-configurations of the Agrarian Past in Jumana Manna's Artistic Work (Liliana Gómez)23 - 52 Folding Landscapes and Critical Ecologies: Aesthetic Re-configurations of the Agrarian Past in Jumana Manna's Artistic Work (Liliana Gómez)53 - 76 The Anthropo-scene as a Site of New Relationality (Dorota Sajewska)77 - 106 Ana Mendieta: From Cooperation to Entanglement (Fabienne Liptay)109 - 140 How to Eat a Polluted River? Curatorial Practice, Metabolic Literacies, and Cultures of Care (Lisa Blackmore)141 - 160 Cinema Flows, Like Water (Dalida María Benfield)161 - 176 Walking Along the Río El Vacilón: A Conversation between Alexandra Gelis, Ana María Lozano, and a Carara Territory Fragment (Ana María Lozano)177 - 214 AGUA: E ncuentros para 600 Movimientos / WATER: Encounters for 600 Movements (Alexandra Gelis)217 - 236 Counterinsurgent: Cop City, Abolition Ecology, and the Aesthetics of Counterreform (J. T. Demos)237 - 256 Feralization of Curatorial Practices: The Encounter Between Community Activists and Curators of Memory Centers (Laura Flórez Castellar, Lorena García Cely)257 - 284 Human Extractivism in the Land of Lenin: Soviet Deportations and Their Aftermath in Victoria Lomasko's Graphic Reportages (Sandra Frimmel)287 - 300 Devenir Universidad: An Ecocentric Project of Higher Education in the Colombian Rainforest (Ursula Biemann)301 - 314 Reading Wood (Backwards) (Uriel Orlow)315 - 324 On Eco-operations and Decoloniality: A Discussion (Dalida María Benfield, Lukas Brasiski, J. T. Demos, Fabienne Liptay, Uriel Orlow)