And if I devoted my life to one of its feathers?: Aesthetic Responses to Extraction, Accumulation, and...

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Miguel A. Lopez What, How & For Whom/WHW

And if I devoted my life to one of its feathers?

Aesthetic Responses to Extraction, Accumulation, and Dispossession

Miguel A. Lopez, What, How & For Whom/WHW, Christophe Slagmuylder

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Sternberg Press
24 April 2023

Theory of art; Art & design styles: c 1900 to c 1960

"An exploration of the realities of environmental and social catastrophe through art practices.

An exploration of the realities of environmental and social catastrophe through art practices.

""And if I devoted my life to one of its feathers?"" wrote the Chilean poet, artist, and feminist activist Cecilia Vicuna in the early 1970s. Vicuna countered anthropocentric and hetero-patriarchal urges with healing and appreciation, reviving the aesthetic and spiritual bonds between human and more-than-human entities and worlds. Revolving around this vision of interconnectivity, this book, which accompanies an exhibition of the same name at Kunsthalle Wien, seeks to create a collective dialogue around unequal distribution of power, sovereignty, and social and ecological justice.

The exhibited works and written contributions reflect on the rationale of exploitation, the fast-paced mining of raw materials, and environmental destruction as a colonial legacy. They deconstruct Western anthropocentric models and enduring colonial and racist discourses, trace the stories of indigenous struggles for collective survival, and celebrate encounters defined by solidarity in their resistance to capitalist extraction, misogyny, imperialist violence, and dispossession.

This publication includes a folded A2 poster- SPIT! (Sodomites, Perverts, Inverts Together! / Carlos Maria Romero, Carlos Motta & John Arthur Peetz), We The Enemy (poster), 2017. Courtesy the artists."

Foreword by: What How & For Whom/WHW, Christophe Slagmuylder
Edited by: Miguel A. Lopez
Imprint: Sternberg Press
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 241mm, Width: 170mm, Spine: 20mm
Weight: 726g
ISBN: 9783956796371
ISBN 10: 3956796373
Pages: 256
Publication Date: 24 April 2023
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Miguel A. L pez is a writer and curator. He worked as chief curator, and later co-director at TEOR/etica (Costa Rica) from 2015 to 2020. In his practice, he focuses on the role of art in politics and public life, collaborative dynamics, and queer and feminist rewritings of history.