Building Common Ground

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...

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description 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.
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spelling doab-20.500.12854ir-1344222024-03-23T14:57:43Z Building Common Ground Blackbird,Cosmopolitics,Nuclear knowledge,Toxicity,Extraction,Mediterranean Sea,Pluriversal ontologies,Ecology,Colonialism,Synesthesia,Ecomaterialism,Mimicry,Ecosystems,Multispecies,Non-human animals,Cultural heritage-making,Re-worlding,Water,Archiving method,Vernacular design,Regionalism,Anthropocene,Imagining otherwise,Permaculture,Environment,Networks,Aurality,Coppice,Ecological art practices,Visitation,Woodland,Eco-art,Multispecies studies,Spores,Plantationocene,Radioactive legacies,Contemporary art,Art practices,Migration,Narratives,Platforms,Speculative practices,Materiality,Racialized labour,Architecture,Birdsong,Biopolitics,Visual Art thema EDItEUR::A The Arts 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. 2024-02-22T16:05:18Z 2024-02-22T16:05:18Z 2023 book ONIX_20240222_9788869697562_22 2785-0986 9788869697562 https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/134422 eng The Future Contemporary image/png Attribution 4.0 International https://edizionicafoscari.unive.it/media/pdf/books/978-88-6969-756-2/978-88-6969-756-2.pdf Fondazione Università Ca' Foscari 10.30687/978-88-6969-756-2 10.30687/978-88-6969-756-2 4213f1ed-14d0-44b5-91b3-3cc52df9b961 9788869697562 77 open access
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Building Common Ground
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topic Blackbird,Cosmopolitics,Nuclear knowledge,Toxicity,Extraction,Mediterranean Sea,Pluriversal ontologies,Ecology,Colonialism,Synesthesia,Ecomaterialism,Mimicry,Ecosystems,Multispecies,Non-human animals,Cultural heritage-making,Re-worlding,Water,Archiving method,Vernacular design,Regionalism,Anthropocene,Imagining otherwise,Permaculture,Environment,Networks,Aurality,Coppice,Ecological art practices,Visitation,Woodland,Eco-art,Multispecies studies,Spores,Plantationocene,Radioactive legacies,Contemporary art,Art practices,Migration,Narratives,Platforms,Speculative practices,Materiality,Racialized labour,Architecture,Birdsong,Biopolitics,Visual Art
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