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Dalida María Benfield, Lukas Brasiski, ...: On Eco-operations and Decoloniality: A Discussion
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Dalida María Benfield, Lukas Brasiski, J. T. Demos, Fabienne Liptay, Uriel Orlow

On Eco-operations and Decoloniality: A Discussion

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  • artistic practice
  • global ecology

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Dalida María Benfield

Dalida María Benfield, PhD, is an artist, theorist, and cultural organizer who researches and activates feminist and post/decolonial thought, pedagogy, and creative action in the context of global information ebbs and flows. Her work initiates collective processes of knowledge production and autonomous cultural interventions. Digital cinemas and archives, and augmented and virtual realities, are repositioned in her work as ancestral technologies to be transformed by user-producers. She is the co-founder of the Center for Arts, Design, and Social Research (CAD+SR), an international, global majority-focused platform supporting transdisciplinary collaborative inquiry through fellowships, residencies, and publications. Recent publication credits as co-editor include: Affecting Technologies/Machining Intelligences (CAD+SR, 2021) and Urgent Pedagogies, Issue #5: Pluriversality (IASPIS, 2023). Benfield’s award-winning films, videos, and installations have been screened and exhibited internationally since 1989.
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J. T. Demos

T. J. Demos is professor of art history and visual culture at University of California, Santa Cruz, and is founder and director of its Center for Creative Ecologies. He writes about contemporary art, global politics, and political ecology and is the author of numerous books, including Decolonizing Nature: Contemporary Art and Political Ecology (Sternberg, 2016), Against the Anthropocene: Visual Culture and Environment Today (Sternberg, 2017), and most recently, Radical Futurisms: Ecologies of Collapse, Chronopolitics, and Justice-to-Come (Sternberg, 2023). He co-edited The Routledge Companion on Contemporary Art, Visual Culture, and Climate Change (2021), was a Getty Research Institute Fellow (Spring 2020), and directed the Mellon-funded Sawyer Seminar research project Beyond the End of the World (2019–2021).
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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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Uriel Orlow

is an artist and researcher who lives and works in Lisbon and London. His work is concerned with residues of colonialism, blind spots of representation and forms of haunting. Orlow’s work is presented widely in museums, film festivals and international survey shows including the Venice Biennale, Manifesta and others. His monographic publications include Conversing with Leaves (Archive Books, 2020), Soil Affinities (Journal des Laboratoires, 2019), Theatrum Botanicum (Sternberg Press, 2018), Unmade Film (2015). He is a reader at University of Westminster, London, visiting professor at Royal College of Art, London and docent at the University of the Arts, Zurich.
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Liliana Gómez (ed.), Fabienne Liptay (ed.)

Eco-operations

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

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