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OverviewAn assembly of a new corpus of art-science projects by Latin American artists. Projects that bring the sciences into art are increasingly being exhibited in galleries and museums across the world. In a surge of publications on the subject, few have focused on regions beyond the Global North. This book assembles a new corpus of art-science projects by Latin American artists, ranging from big-budget collaborations with NASA and MIT to homegrown experiments in artists’ kitchens. Page shows how these artworks also “decolonize” science by resisting the exploitation of the natural world that has attended the creation of knowledge in western contexts. Instead, the artists featured in this volume emphasize the subjectivity and intelligence of other species, staging new forms of collaboration and co-creativity beyond the human. Establishing critical dialogues between Western science and indigenous thought, this book interrogates how artistic practices may communicate, extend, supplement, and challenge scientific ideas. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Joanna PagePublisher: UCL Press Imprint: UCL Press Weight: 0.550kg ISBN: 9781787359772ISBN 10: 1787359778 Pages: 286 Publication Date: 15 April 2021 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print  This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of ContentsList of figures Acknowledgements Introduction 1. A planetary art beyond the human I. Inhuman agency II. Seismic encounters and the acoustic sublime 2. The atmosphere as a planetary commons I. Breathing a common air II. From the Anthropocene to the Aerocene 3. Art and environmental change: beyond Apocalypse I. Art and geodesign for climate change II. Environmental futures beyond precarity: symbiosis and resilience 4. Science in an ecology of knowledges I. Indigenous cosmologies and cognitive justice II. Transgenic maize: between the milpa and the monoculture 5. Interspecies communication and performance I. Plantbots and the logic of vegetal life II. The language of cetaceans III. Microbe music 6. Revising systems art: biological time and the ethics of care I. Slow robotics and the art of bioremediation II. Curation and care 7. Sensory worlds and the pluriverse I. Spider/webs: from connection to coevolution II. Myrmecology and multispecies communities Conclusion Bibliography IndexReviewsJoanna Page presents a deeply researched account of contemporary art-science projects in Latin America. She situates them at the crux of current discussions on the decolonization of both the sciences and the arts: by questioning Eurocentric views on humanism and modernity, exploring expanded ideas of perception and cognition, and placing Western scientific knowledge within constellations of beliefs and practices that have been marginalized by colonial histories. --Mara Polgovsky Ezcurra, Birkbeck College “Joanna Page presents a deeply researched account of contemporary art-science projects in Latin America. She situates them at the crux of current discussions on the decolonization of both the sciences and the arts: by questioning Eurocentric views on humanism and modernity, exploring expanded ideas of perception and cognition, and placing Western scientific knowledge within constellations of beliefs and practices that have been marginalized by colonial histories.” -- Mara Polgovsky Ezcurra, Birkbeck College Author InformationJoanna Page is Reader in Latin American Literature and Visual Culture at the University of Cambridge. Her most recent books are Posthumanism and the Graphic Novel in Latin America (co-authored with Edward King) and Geopolitics, Culture, and the Scientific Imaginary in Latin America (co-edited with María del Pilar Blanco). Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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