Eco-operations

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, Sandra Frimmel, Laura Flórez & Lorena Garcia Cely, Alexandra Gelis, Liliana Gómez, Fabienne Liptay, Ana María Lozano, Uriel Orlow, Dorota Sajewska.

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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 is professor of art and society at the University of Kassel/Kunsthochschule Kassel and the documenta Institut. She directs the research project Contested Amnesia and Dissonant Narratives in the Global South. Post-Conflict in Literature, Art, and Emergent Archives. Recently she edited Performing Human Rights. Contested Amnesia and Aesthetic Practices in the Global South (Diaphanes/Think Art, Zurich, 2021) and co-edited with Lisa Blackmore Liquid Ecologies in Latin American and Caribbean Art (Routledge, New York, 2020). She is the author of Lo urbano. Teorías culturales y políticas de la ciudad en América Latina (IILI, Pittsburgh, 2014).