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Liliana Gómez (ed.), Fabienne Liptay (ed.): Eco-operations

Liliana Gómez (ed.), Fabienne Liptay (ed.)

Eco-operations

Softcover, 336 pages

Date of publication: 22.11.2024

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.

  • global ecology
  • ecology
  • artistic practice

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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).
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Fabienne Liptay

Fabienne Liptay is professor of film studies at the University of Zurich and member of the Center for the Arts and Cultural Theory (ZKK). She directs the research project Exhibiting Film: Challenges of Format, for which she was awarded an excellence grant by the Swiss National Science Foundation. Her research focuses on the aesthetics and theory of the moving image, the relationship between film, literature, photography, and performance, the institutional practices and curatorial concepts of film exhibition, and the aesthetic politics of film formats. Her publications include the book Telling Images: Studien zur Bildlichkeit des Films (diaphanes, 2016) and the co-edited volumes Immersion in the Visual Arts and Media (Brill, 2015), Artur Żmijewski: Kunst als Alibi (diaphanes, 2017), and Taking Measures: Usages of Formats in Film and Video Art (Scheidegger & Spiess, 2023).
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