Arts Of The Workingclass
Design of issue #28. Special Tag: Territories
"Territories, in contrast to land, always have an anthropogenic history. To make way for constructions, and for the yet to be born, means to dismantle existing things. How do we know what to preserve? Around which ruins will we nurture the growth of our future gardens? This installment of AWS is our way of suggesting that the political wisdom needed for the climate emergency stems from the body, a body removed from its idealization, as Ana Mendieta documents it in her series Siluetas (1979/2020). In this spirit, we invite you to join us on this journey through resistance to re-existence, in which a radically accepting stance towards impermanence can be seen as a critical function of the dynamic life on, and of, the Earth." Art Of The Working Class #28, website
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The new models of extractive and colonialism emerging prompt us to explore the origins of the term “green transition”. Contemporary reason has displaced what was once understood as “ecology” with a generic understanding of nature. However, paths to survival lead us back to the term’s etymological root oikos: home, and this is what directs our gazes towards the countless communities that persist in regenerative and sustainable relationships with their surroundings. Regina Galindo’s suggestion of “de-conquering the world” is not about a desperate race for new fantasies of salvation, but about being constantly suspicious of modern-colonial thought. Drawing from Daniel Lie's bio-installations, this edition of AWS aims to account for everything that resists contemporary history’s obsessions with false binaries such as nature and culture, countryside and city, and protection and use. That’s why this issue is dedicated to territories — disputed, contested, material or imaginary — from the perspective of those who cultivate them, as well as those who can’t find their way back home.
Source: Art Of The Working Class #28, website
With Contributions by Octavia Abril, Houda Akrikez, Students of Weaving from Below, Pierre Cassou-Noguès, Miguel Gutiérrez Chero, Josefa Sánchez Contreras, Ashley Dawson, Ros Del Olmo, Fernando García Dory, Elisa Fuenzalida, Paola Imperatore and Francesca Gabbriellini, Regina José Galindo, Agnieszka Gratza, Rico Zyrrano and Jacky Leder, Daniel Lie, Miriam Nobre and Natália Lobo, Conny Maier, Dalia Maini, Ana Mendieta, Lilian Pungas, Santiago Roose, Mohammad Salemy, Plotting from the Cracks UDK Block Seminar, HfG Karlsruhe students, Kuba Szreder, Luc Thais, Louise Wagner.