Imagine…

 

“We are transitioning to a new era…in the uncertainty created by the fact that our old rationalities and sensibilities are obsolete while new ones have not yet been identified. Based on the experience of similar periods in the past, we should turn to the artists, who can often sniff out the coming of a new era; they produce their creations not by using the old logic but with new insights” (Esteva in Pluriversal Politics, by Escobar, 2020).

We all possess the power of the imagination of how we may steward our Earth back to the Holocene – the epoch in which our biosphere thrives. Flip files to familiarise with different artists’ and activists’ works and imagine the just and feasible path we should take…

Holocene

The Holocene is the geological  epoch – a period that began 11,650[1] years ago- that marks the geological age when the biosphere was conducive to such habitable conditions so as to enable the emergence of settled societies.

This shift from nomadic to settled livelihoods beckoned the Agricultural and Industrial Revolutions and the very institutional foundations that allowed the modern age to come of age as the scientifically “enlightened” and technologically precocious web of complexity we know today, imbalanced by extreme inequity. 

  

[1] https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-981-15-1443-2_3

Anthropocene

We stand now to witness the genesis of the Athropocene[2] , a term coined to denote the abrupt shift out of our clement home of the Holocene and into the epoch of ‘hothouse’[3]   Earth as a consequence of human activity.

Human behaviour has been at fault in its resource-grabbing excess.  What’s more,  humanity’s response by those most responsible has been fraught with pushback and denials.

[2]http://quaternary.stratigraphy.org/working-groups/anthropocene/

[3]https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.1810141115

 

Global Warming

As early as the 1930s, the Callendar Effect[4] (1938), was postulated by an amateur meteorologist that global atmospheric warming was connected to human activity (research much dismissed by the scientific community at the time), and at the dawn of the nuclear age[5] (in 1945 in the development of the atomic bomb), there has been predictions of the coming of the geological signal that would identify the Anthropocene epoch[6]; an era  so soon to be  etched in time and acknowledged as such , like the portent of a self- inflicted apocalypse that we will be called upon to avert. [4] https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2022/02/climate-change-global-warming-carbon-dioxide-fossil-fuels/ [5] https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-13335683 [6] https://www.dw.com/en/canadian-lake-shows-start-of-anthropocene-era-scientists/a-66195820

more-than-human Life

 

Re-embedding human activity into the larger web of life is more than just a legal or scientific enterprise. It also involves emotions, aesthetics, and culture, requiring new and currently undervalued modes of thinking, feeling, and creating in the world.

Get to know the MOTH  More-Than-Human Life

Cuerpo Migrante

El arte aúna otros niveles de presencia. Somos un ser natural. El arte nos reconecta con la esencia que tiene que ver con la naturaleza. Nos lleva a un otro lugar que nos libera. Y ahí viene para el sentido de lo espiritual.  

Escucha la entrevista entera acompañada por “clips” del taller “Corpo Migrante: um corpo ressonante” con la artista interdisciplinaria de artes escénicas Ana Kavalis 

Siia ekobé ita maramunhã

The livrinho uses digital art in telling the story of Brazilian community leaders. Access the book.

In this encouraging book, we hear in Portuguese, Tupi-Nheengatu, Finnish and English from individuals, young and old. The voices of the leaders of Northeastern Brazil tell us that unity, perseverance, and hope are key to building transformative presents.  Flip through the book to find their stories told by digital collage. The book is the result of the work carried out by the Boas Práticas, Good Practices for Covid19 Project.

The Animal Holocaust

Is our consumption and ways of life ethical? 

 

Get to know how art meets ethics.

Animal Rights videos — jo frederiks

Floraissance

Contemporary art has become outdated.

The art gardener cultivates art in the lives of others.

The Floraissance has begun!

Art movement

 

Forest Cat

get to know the forest cat  project in finland

https://www.metsakissa.fi/Galleria/

Retratos de mi sangre

Peru

Shipibo-Konibo: Retratos de mi sangre

Photography reveals family history and narrates the presence of coloniality…

 

Get to know mural work through 

AMAZONARTE 

 

Cholitas de Babilonia

The collective “Cholitas de Babilonia” reminds us of the Andean migrants’ presence in the big city of Sao Paulo.

How do Andean traditions contribute to moulding a city with other narratives than those focused on growth?

Na Varanda com Carolina Velasquez | Ativação dos corpos – espíritos: Costura ancestral

Arte migrante: 11 artistas e 11 obras em 2022 – Cholitas da Babilônia – Museu da Imigração

 

 

The Power of Hip Hop

“Hip Hop was on the streets. It’s so powerful because it’s so easy to access. The fact that Hip Hop came from migrant people, from African people, was amazing because it also connected us to our roots, to our past, to our history.”

Listen to the full interview by the  Costa Rican Hip Hop artist Nakury given to the Latin America is Moving Collective and carried out by Louise Morris.