Building Common Ground

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dc.identifier	ECF_book_662
dc.creator	Guaraldo Emiliano
dc.title	Building Common Ground. Ecological Art Practices and Human-Nonhuman Knowledges
dc.type	Edited book
dc.language.iso	en
dc.description.abstract	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.
dc.relation.ispartof	The Future Contemporary
dc.identifier.doi	10.30687/978-88-6969-756-2
dc.publisher	Edizioni Ca’ Foscari - Venice University Press, Fondazione Università Ca’ Foscari
dc.issued	2023-12-14
dc.identifier.uri	http://edizionicafoscari.it/en/edizioni4/libri/978-88-6969-756-2/
dc.identifier.issn	2785-1613
dc.identifier.eissn	2785-0986
dc.identifier.isbn
dc.identifier.eisbn	978-88-6969-756-2
dc.rights	Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Public License
dc.rights.uri	http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
item.fulltext	with fulltext
item.grantfulltext	open
dc.peer-review	yes
dc.subject	Anthropocene
dc.subject	Anthropocene
dc.subject	Architecture
dc.subject	Archiving method
dc.subject	Art practices
dc.subject	Aurality
dc.subject	Biopolitics
dc.subject	Birdsong
dc.subject	Blackbird
dc.subject	Colonialism
dc.subject	Contemporary art
dc.subject	Contemporary art
dc.subject	Coppice
dc.subject	Cosmopolitics
dc.subject	Cultural heritage-making
dc.subject	Eco-art
dc.subject	Ecological art practices
dc.subject	Ecology
dc.subject	Ecology
dc.subject	Ecology
dc.subject	Ecomaterialism
dc.subject	Ecosystems
dc.subject	Environment
dc.subject	Extraction
dc.subject	Extraction
dc.subject	Imagining otherwise
dc.subject	Materiality
dc.subject	Mediterranean Sea
dc.subject	Migration
dc.subject	Mimicry
dc.subject	Multispecies
dc.subject	Multispecies studies
dc.subject	Narratives
dc.subject	Networks
dc.subject	Non-human animals
dc.subject	Nuclear knowledge
dc.subject	Permaculture
dc.subject	Plantationocene
dc.subject	Platforms
dc.subject	Pluriversal ontologies
dc.subject	Racialized labour
dc.subject	Radioactive legacies
dc.subject	Re-worlding
dc.subject	Regionalism
dc.subject	Speculative practices
dc.subject	Spores
dc.subject	Synesthesia
dc.subject	Toxicity
dc.subject	Vernacular design
dc.subject	Visitation
dc.subject	Visual Art
dc.subject	Water
dc.subject	Woodland

Edited book
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Ecological Art Practices and Human-Nonhuman Knowledges

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Emiliano Guaraldo Università Ca’ Foscari Venezia, Italia

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abstract

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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Dec. 14, 2023

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978-88-6969-756-2

Keywords

Colonialism • Art practices • Coppice • Extraction • Archiving method • Blackbird • Pluriversal ontologies • Water • Narratives • Regionalism • Cultural heritage-making • Biopolitics • Racialized labour • Re-worlding • Eco-art • Non-human animals • Plantationocene • Ecosystems • Platforms • Multispecies • Permaculture • Mediterranean Sea • Synesthesia • Networks • Contemporary art • Nuclear knowledge • Speculative practices • Architecture • Migration • Vernacular design • Ecological art practices • Woodland • Visual Art • Anthropocene • Materiality • Birdsong • Mimicry • Radioactive legacies • Imagining otherwise • Ecomaterialism • Toxicity • Visitation • Multispecies studies • Ecology • Aurality • Cosmopolitics • Environment • Spores

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