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 for 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.
Each book also contains an individual print of one of the paperworks that artist Alexandra Gelis has produced during the process of the publication.
An artists edition with a unique handmade cover and paper work by Alexandra Gelis is available directly through DIAPHANES:
Series
Language
Place of publication
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
Dimensions
Height: 22.5 cm
Width: 14 cm
Thickness: 25 mm
Weight
ISBN-13
978-3-0358-0713-4 (9783035807134)
Schweitzer Classification
Editor
Fabienne Liptay Fabienne Liptay ist Professorin für Filmwissenschaft an der Universität Zürich. Sie lehrt und forscht zur Ästhetik, Geschichte und Theorie des Films. In ihren aktuellen Schriften befasst sie sich mit der Bildlichkeit des Films, mit Aspekten von Licht, Kamera und Bildformat, mit ästhetischen Diskursen und kunstwissenschaftlichen Theorien des Films sowie mit dem Verhältnis zwischen Kino und Museum.
Liliana Gómez Liliana Gómez ist Professorin an der
Kunsthochschule Kassel und dem documenta Institut. Sie leitet das Forschungsprojekt "Contested Amnesia and Dissonant Narratives in the
Global South: Post-Conflict in Literature, Art, and Emergent Archives", für das sie Förderung und die SNF-Förderungsprofessur vom Schweizerischen Nationalfond erhielt. Sie schreibt über Literatur-, Kultur- und Medientheorie der Gegenwart, Theorie und Geschichte der Moderne im besonderen mit Blick auf die Kunst, die Stadt und Botanik, Ästhetik und postkoloniale Studien, Memory Studies, Literatur, Kunst und Menschenrechte, die Visuellen Kulturen und environmental humanities. Kürzlich hat sie Performing Human Rights: Contested Amnesia and
Aesthetic Practices in the Global South (diaphanes, 2021) herausgegeben und ist Mitherausgeberin von
Liquid Ecologies in Latin American and Caribbean Art (Routledge, 2020). Zudem ist sie Autorin von Archive Matter: A Camera in the Laboratory
of the Modern (diaphanes, 2023) Chefredakteurin des Magazins Latin
American and Latinx Visual Culture.
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Eco-operations: An Introduction
(Liliana Gómez, Fabienne Liptay)
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52
Feralization of Curatorial Practices: The Encounter Between Community Activists and Curators of Memory Centers
(Liliana Gómez)
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52
Folding Landscapes and Critical Ecologies: Aesthetic Re-configurations of the Agrarian Past in Jumana Manna's Artistic Work
(Liliana Gómez)
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Folding Landscapes and Critical Ecologies: Aesthetic Re-configurations of the Agrarian Past in Jumana Manna's Artistic Work
(Liliana Gómez)
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The Anthropo-scene as a Site of New Relationality
(Dorota Sajewska)
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Ana Mendieta: From Cooperation to Entanglement
(Fabienne Liptay)
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How to Eat a Polluted River? Curatorial Practice, Metabolic Literacies, and Cultures of Care
(Lisa Blackmore)
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Cinema Flows, Like Water
(Dalida María Benfield)
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Walking Along the Río El Vacilón: A Conversation between Alexandra Gelis, Ana María Lozano, and a Carara Territory Fragment
(Ana María Lozano)
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AGUA: Encuentros para 600 Movimientos / WATER: Encounters for 600 Movements
(Alexandra Gelis)
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Counterinsurgent: Cop City, Abolition Ecology, and the Aesthetics of Counterreform
(J. T. Demos)
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Feralization of Curatorial Practices: The Encounter Between Community Activists and Curators of Memory Centers
(Laura Flórez Castellar, Lorena García Cely)
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Human Extractivism in the Land of Lenin: Soviet Deportations and Their Aftermath in Victoria Lomasko's Graphic Reportages
(Sandra Frimmel)
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Devenir Universidad: An Ecocentric Project of Higher Education in the Colombian Rainforest
(Ursula Biemann)
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Reading Wood (Backwards)
(Uriel Orlow)
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On Eco-operations and Decoloniality: A Discussion
(Dalida María Benfield, Lukas Brasiski, J. T. Demos, Fabienne Liptay, Uriel Orlow)
