Worlding Ecologies: Art, Science and Activism Towards Climate Justice
Worlding Ecologies: Art, Science and Activism Towards Climate Justice
Valiz
climate justice for all!
addresses urgent topics in our common challenge to save our living environment
with many different views on how art, science and activism can interact in finding new perspectives
How can art, science and institutional practices counteract the negative consequences of climate and ecologicalbreakdown? How can these practices and ideas advance systemic change? WorldingEcologies 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 ecologicalthought. 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––WorldingEcologies moves from fieldwork-taking to patchwork-making, unifying the arts with science, politics and ecology into a field of synthetic thought and commitment.
Authors: Ursula Biemann, Federica Bueti, Eva Burgering, TJ Demos, Zoénie Liwen Deng, Jeff Diamanti, Lisa Doeland, Taru Elfving, Sami Hammana, Christopher F. Julien, Niekolaas Johannes Lekkerkerk, Michael Marder, Chus Martinéz, Victoria McKenzie, Margarida Mendes, Vincent Normand, Filipa Ramos, Jessica Ullrich
Editors: Niekolaas Johannes Lekkerkerk, Eva Burgering
Partner: RADIUS, center for contemporary art and ecology
Design: Wibke Bramesfeld
July 2024, Valiz in collaboration with RADIUS, center for contemporary art and ecology | supported by Mondriaan Fund, het Cultuurfonds and M.A.O.C. Gravin van Bylandt Stichting | pb | 256 pp. | 24 x 16 cm (h x w) | English | ISBN 978-94-93246-34-8 | € 27,50