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Sensing Earth : cultural quests across a heated globe / Philipp Dietachmair, Pascal Gielen, Georgia Nicolau (eds.) ; [contributors, Grégory Castéra [and others]

Dietachmair, Philipp, 1973- (editor.). Gielen, Pascal, (editor.). Nicolau, Georgia, (editor.). Castéra, Grégory, 1981- (contributor.).

Summary:

"Technology and science alone are not enough to save our planet. Environmental solutions need to firstly be found in politics, culture, and aesthetics. Humanity faces an escalation of ecological catastrophes, with no quick solutions in sight. We seem to be trapped in a spiral of health issues, sensory overload, social tensions and power struggles. In the face of these multiple crises, artists offer ways to articulate the ongoing emergencies and explore possibilities of affirming life while also understanding that their travels are part of the problem. Acknowledging that there are different ways of being an artist and that these crises are experienced differently depending on where you come from, Sensing Earth presents essays, interviews, poetry, manifestos, choreographic prompts, speculative fiction and case studies that operate at the intersection of art and environmental activism, culture and nature. What sensorial foundations are necessary to address today's systemic failures, and what new cultural routes could keep us moving on this planet, physically, emotionally, intellectually and ecologically?" -- Back cover.

Record details

ISBN: 9493246248
ISBN: 9789493246249
Physical Description: 289 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm.
Publisher: Amsterdam : Valiz, 2023.

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Formatted Contents Note:

Introduction / Georgia Nicolau, Pascal Gielen, Philipp Dietachmir -- Reset our senses. The global burnout : overheated cultures in super cool flatscapes / Pascal Gielen -- Of attentional environments (the pearl necklace) / Grégory Castéra -- I am a tree : a reboot to the notion of culture-nature / Naine Terena de Jesus -- Slow it down. Routes and rootedness : revalorizing cultural mobilities / Noel B. Salazar -- Slow mobility / Ana Žuvela, Dea Vidović -- Watching grass grow " forms of care & cultivation / INLAND, Fernando García-Dory -- Dance away the crisis. Choreographing the crisis : enchantments, refuges, and impossible (re)positionings / Marina Guzzo -- To have eyes in the back / Georgia Nicolau in conversation with Luciane Ramos Silva -- Cosmological gardens / Center for Arts, Design, and Social Research, Dalida María Benfield, Christopher Bratton, Luigi Coppola, Pelin Tan -- The chestnut, the sea urchin & the tuning of the bells / Futurefarmers -- To feel it again. Ancestors are the future / Meander -- [the spell smell of consent] / Joy Mariama Smith -- Epilogue : the end of history and the last human / André Wilkens.