Momentum : art & ecology in contemporary Latin America /

Momentum: Art & Ecology in Contemporary Latin America is a guide to the relationships between contemporary art and ecology, focusing in particular on the unique contributions of Latin America. The culmination of four years of research, conferences and seminars conducted by the Cisneros Institute...

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors:	Katzenstein, Inés (Editor), Carrión, María del Carmen (Editor), Turner, Madeline Murphy (Editor)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	New York : Museum of Modern Art, [2024].
Subjects:	Art, Latin American > 21st century. Nature in art. Ecology in art.

Table of Contents:

Foreword / Glenn D. Lowry
Momentum: Art and ecology in contemporary Latin America / Inés Katzenstein ; Part I: Interspecies thinking. From cybernetics to the technologies of enchantment: some notes on contemporary art and the environment in Latin America / Julieta González
Past Ecological Futures: Revisiting Luis Fernando Benedit, Marta Minuj̕n, and the work of CAyC / Joanna Page and Mara Polgovsky Ezcurra
Eduardo Kac's Animal Futures / Arnaud Gerspacher
On Cecilia Vicuña, A new spelling for EVOLve: feel love / Carla Macchiavello Cornejo
Glimmers of Another Life: Aesthetics Against Dispossession / Miguel A. L̤pez
Museum of Contemporary Nature / Graciela Speranza ; Part II: Land Disputes and Colonial Legacies. Frans Krajcberg: Articulating the Natural World / Patricia Vieira
Acts of Vision: Colonial Visuality and the Recurrence of the Telluric in Contemporary Colombian Art / Victor Manuel Rodr̕guez-Sarmiento
Three enchanted postcards: mimicking nature, landscape simulacra, territorial sampling (or the work of Vivian Suter) / José Falconi
In dialog: Allora y Calzadilla / Irene V. Small
The Territorial Body : Regina Još Galindo, Mar̕a Evelia Marmolejo, and Beatriz Santiago Mųoz / Carla Acevedo Yates ; Part III: Proposals for the Future. Rewriting the Landscape: How the Valparaiso School's Travesías seek to transform a continent / Patricio del Real
Imagining Postextractivist Ongoingness / Lisa Blackmore
Alliances of Survival: Ala Pl̀stica, thislandyourland, and the arts of entanglement / Jens Andermann
Creatures of the future: listening to the song of the bichas / Camila Marambio
Coatl time: learning to live in an era of mass extinction / Helena Chávez Mac Gregor ; Part IV: Interdisciplinary essays. Cosmological deixis and Amerindian perspectivism / Eduardo Viveiros de Castro
Sumak Kawsay as a political project / Simbaña, Floresmilo
The falling sky: words of a Yanomami Shaman / Davi Kopenawa and Bruce Albert
Nonhuman rights / Paula Tavares
Environmental and ecological forms of justice / Eduardo Gudynas
Autonomous design and the politics of relationality and the communal / Arturo Escobar
The thinking forest: tendrils of sylvan thinking / Eduardo Kohn and Daniel Steegmann Managrané
Indigenous systems of government: the organization of the reproduction of life / Gladys Tzul Tzul
The metropolis: the infrastructure of the anthropocene / Gastón Gordillo
Of dreams and the earth / Ailton Krenak
Networks of ecoterritorial feminisms in Latin America / Maristella Svampa
Contributors
Index
Patricia Phelps de Cisneros Institute for the Study of Art from Latin America
Trustees of the Musem of Modern Art.