ECO-OPERATIONS

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 disruptions, ruptures, dis­connections, dissonances, exclusions and allochronism. 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.

ECO-OPERATIONS is a cooperation between the documenta Institut, the University of Kassel and the Centre for Arts and Cultural Theory (ZKK) at the University of Zurich and the Zurich University of the Arts. It brings together the research perspectives of the projects Contested Amnesia and Dissonant Narratives in the Global South and Exhibiting Film: Challenges of Format funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation.