Sensing Earth – Cultural Quests Across a Heated Globe
- The Murmuring of the Artistic Multitude
- Spaces for Criticism
- Interrupting the City
- Imaginative Bodies
- The Practice of Dramaturgy
- Mobile Autonomy
- In-between Dance Cultures
- No Culture, No Europe
- Arts Education Beyond Art
- Aesthetic Justice
- Alternative Mainstream
- The Ethics of Art
- Institutional Attitudes
- Teaching Art in the Neoliberal Realm
- Community Art
- Moving Together
- Repressief Liberalisme
- The Art of Civil Action - Political Space and Cultural Dissent
- Commonism - A New Aesthetics of the Real
- The Future of the New
- Contemporary Artist Residencies: Reclaiming Time and Space
- When Fact is Fiction – Documentary Art in the Post-Truth Era
- Design Dedication
- Nearness - Art And Education After Covid-19
- Nabijheid - Kunst en onderwijs na Covid-19
- The Aesthetics of Ambiguity
- Kwetsbaarheid
- Fragility
- Sensing Earth - Cultural Quests Across a Heated Globe
Sensing Earth states that our environmental issues are in the first place a matter of culture and aesthetics. Technology and science are not enough to solve these problems.
Our globe is facing an escalation of ecological problems, with no quick solutions in sight. We seem to be caught in a spiral of health issues, burnout, sensory overload, depression, and somatic deprivation. Artists faced with these crises are looking for ways to articulate the ongoing emergencies and explore possible ways out. However, the arts and culture are caught in a double bind. Artists and cultural initiatives need circulation to let ideas intersect and create meaningful connections. However, this globalized system also contributes to the planet’s ecological decline: by countless journeys from one biennale, international residency, touring exhibition and networking event to the next. After the Covid-19 pandemic ‘business as usual’ seems to prevail.
Sensing Earth includes essays, interviews, poetry, manifestos, choreographic prompts, speculative fiction, and case studies operating at the intersection of art and activism, culture and nature. All texts explore what sensorial foundations are necessary to address systemic failures, and what routes to take for keeping us moving on this planet, physically, emotionally and intellectually.
Editors: Philipp Dietachmair, Pascal Gielen, Georgia Nicolau
Contributors: Grégory Castéra, Center for Arts, Design and Social Research (Dalída Maria Benfield, Christopher Bratton, Luigi Coppola, Pelin Tan), Philipp Dietachmair, Futurefarmers, Pascal Gielen, Marina Guzzo, INLAND (Fernando García-Dory), Meander, Georgia Nicolau, Luciane Ramos Silva, Noel B. Salazar, Joy Mariama Smith, Naine Terena de Jesus, Dea Vidović, André Wilkens, Ana Žuvela
Philipp Dietachmair is Head of Programmes at European Cultural Foundation; Pascal Gielen is Professor of Sociology at the University of Antwerp (BE); Georgia Nicolau is researcher and co-founder/director of non-profit civil-society organization Instituto Procomum in Santos (BR).
ISBN 978-94-93246-24-9