And if I devoted my life to one of its feathers?: Aesthetic Responses to Extraction, Accumulation, and Dispossession

Lopez, Miguel A.

ISBN 10: 3956796373 / ISBN 13: 9783956796371

Published by Sternberg Press (edition ), 2023

It's a preowned item in good condition and includes all the pages. It may have some general signs of wear and tear, such as markings, highlighting, slight damage to the cover, minimal wear to the binding, etc., but they will not affect the overall reading experience. Seller Inventory # 3956796373-11-1

Synopsis:

An exploration of the realities of environmental and social catastrophe through art practices.

“And if I devoted my life to one of its feathers?” wrote the Chilean poet, artist, and feminist activist Cecilia Vicuña in the early 1970s. Vicuña countered anthropocentric and hetero-patriarchal urges with healing and appreciation, reviving the aesthetic and spiritual bonds between human and more-than-human entities and worlds. Revolving around this vision of interconnectivity, this book, which accompanies an exhibition of the same name at Kunsthalle Wien, seeks to create a collective dialogue around unequal distribution of power, sovereignty, and social and ecological justice. 

The exhibited works and written contributions reflect on the rationale of exploitation, the fast-paced mining of raw materials, and environmental destruction as a colonial legacy. They deconstruct Western anthropocentric models and enduring colonial and racist discourses, trace the stories of indigenous struggles for collective survival, and celebrate encounters defined by solidarity in their resistance to capitalist extraction, misogyny, imperialist violence, and dispossession.

This publication includes a folded A2 poster: SPIT! (Sodomites, Perverts, Inverts Together! / Carlos Maria Romero, Carlos Motta & John Arthur Peetz), We The Enemy (poster), 2017. Courtesy the artists.

About the Author: Miguel A. López is a writer and curator. He worked as chief curator, and later co-director at TEOR/ética (Costa Rica) from 2015 to 2020. In his practice, he focuses on the role of art in politics and public life, collaborative dynamics, and queer and feminist rewritings of history.

Bibliographic Details

Title: And if I devoted my life to one of its ...
Publisher: Sternberg Press (edition )
Publication Date: 2023
Binding: Paperback
Condition: Good