Worlding ecologies : art, science and activism towards climate justice

Book

Worlding ecologies : art, science and activism towards climate justice / Niekolaas Johannes Lekkerkerk, Eva Burgering (eds.).

Lekkerkerk, Niekolaas Johannes, (editor.). Burgering, Eva (editor.).

Summary:

How can art, science and institutional practices counteract the negative consequences of climate and ecological breakdown? How can these practices and ideas advance systemic change? Worlding Ecologies serves as an anthology of examples and wayward navigational tool, assembling eighteen authors exploring this question from their diverse backgrounds - as scientists, artists, philosophers, activists, theorists and curators - to rigorously approach urgent ecological challenges, including climate breakdown, pollution, biodiversity loss, environmental and social justice. This book emphasizes the fundamental role of art as a vehicle and support structure for intersectional ecological thought. Whilst navigating imagination, worlding-possibility, science fact, social justice and climate action, the book prompts a fundamental role for art to create the blueprints for regenerative and sustainable more-than-human worlds. Structured alongside three sections - Science and Climate Truth; Activism and Climate Justice and Social Justice in Institutional Ecosystems - Worlding Ecologies moves from fieldwork-taking to patchwork-making, unifying the arts with science, politics and ecology into a field of synthetic thought and commitment. (Verlagsangaben)

Record details

ISBN: 9789493246348
ISBN: 9493246345
Physical Description: 256 pages ; 24 cm
Publisher: Amsterdam : Valiz ; 2024.

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:: Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Formatted Contents Note:: Foreword / Niekolaas Johannes Lekkerkerk & Eva Burgering -- The ecologies of art in the climate regime : a report from Radius / Niekolaas Johannes Lekkerkerk -- Science and climate truth -- The languages of art, science, and philosophy in the face of political and ecological degradation / Michael Marder -- Holey art / Sami Hammana -- Bereft : on the love and loss of nature / Filipa Ramos -- Devenir universidad : toward a pluriversity in the Amazon / Ursula Bieman -- Playing gently with the future : art at the core of subsistence / Chus Martinez -- Activism and climate justice -- The water council : fostering community through creative reclaiming / Margarida Mendes -- Like your house is on fire / Christopher F. Julien -- Extinction rebellion / T.J. Demos -- Critical raw materials / Jeff Diamanti -- Embracting hypocrisy in the wasteocene / Lisa Doeland -- Ecological happenings : interruptions against neoliberalism / Victoria McKenzie -- Art & institutional ecosystems -- The modern museum's secret cargo / Vincent Normand -- From shareholders to stakeholders : the more-than-human dimension / Jessica Ullrich -- Architectures of intimacy / Federica Bueti -- Cultivating independence : on durability and reciprocity in the arts / Eva Burgering -- A mother tree, a hut for wolf : art and curating as mattering practices for the more-than-human / Zoénie Liwen Deng -- Undisciplining art and ecology / Taru Elfving.