{"id":2244,"date":"2021-05-13T02:17:16","date_gmt":"2021-05-13T02:17:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nugu.lt\/us\/?p=2244"},"modified":"2024-01-29T02:45:27","modified_gmt":"2024-01-29T02:45:27","slug":"terrestrial-university-swamps-and-the-new-imagination-zkm-2021","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nugu.lt\/?p=2244","title":{"rendered":"Terrestrial University: Swamps and the New Imagination, ZKM, 2021"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Performative book presentation \u00bbSwamps and the New imagination. On the Future of Cohabitation in Art, Architecture and Philosophy\u00ab at the Terrestrial University of ZKM – Center for Art and Media Karlsruhe, May 13, 2021.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Swamps are not only sinks for carbon but also vessels for our imagination. By providing habitats to a plethora of beings, they facilitate the biodiversity that flourish in the morass. The book\u00a0\u00bbSwamps and the\u00a0New imagination. On the Future of Cohabitation in Art, Architecture and\u00a0Philosophy\u00ab (Sternberg Press, 2021) invokes the concept of a \u00bbswamp\u00ab\u00a0as a\u00a0tool to address the vital urgency of human cohabitation with other forms of\u00a0life, placing the swamp at the crossroads of disciplines and practices.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The term\u00a0\u00bbswamp\u00ab\u00a0belongs to the family of wetlands that, together with marshes, bogs, mires, fens, mangroves, and meadows refer to the gray zones that sit between land and water. In that sense, the term can be considered a metonym attributed to a variety of transitional ecosystems and functions. Charged with cultural political symbolism, swamp is also an irritant term that delineates an uncanny territory in between the solidity of determined real and the illusions of fluctuating otherness.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A \u00bbswamp\u00ab\u00a0is more than a biological ecosystem, it is a milieu of manifold relationships, which fosters discussions about the possibility of sympoietic co-existence\u2014i.e. the human becoming shaped collectively with plants, animals, bacteria, fungi and minerals. Being a very particular modality\u2014\u00bban interface of Gaia\u00ab\u2014offering a \u00bbface\u00ab,\u00a0a certain physiognomy to a faceless networks of relations, swamp can teach us about the ways of co-existence conceived as co-creation. The contributors to this book expand on swampy notions, probe experimental art and architecture, intercalate philosophy and queer theory, and filter ideas through the lens of posthumanist ecology, informed by the histories and theories of cybernetics, sociology, and the commons.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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An introduction by editors\u00a0Nomeda & Gediminas Urbonas\u00a0with\u00a0Kristupas Sabolius\u00a0was followed by\u00a0Joan Jona’s\u00a0reading performance and visuals from\u00a0NODE Berlin Oslo. Contributors to the book\u00a0Astrida Neimanis, Jennifer Gabrys,\u00a0Vittoria Di Palma,\u00a0Mar\u00eda Puig de la Bellacasa\u00a0and\u00a0Dimitris Papadopoulos unpacked the emergent worlds discussed in their essays.\u00a0With questions from\u00a0Nikola Boji\u0107\u00a0and the audience.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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