FUTUREECOLOGIES




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Fostering art, environmental humanities, and ecological imagination to contest climate coloniality!


Roberto Burle-Marx (Palácio Itamaraty, Brasilia)






This think-and-make lab desmantles human/nature dualities and cultivates alternative forms of co-existence with the Earth


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Juan Downey, América del Sur-Mapa (1979)

Contemporary Art & Extractive Cultures


Organised by: Universitat de Barcelona
Visualidad y Geoestética en la Era de la Crisis Ecosocial VIGEO


Extractivism refers to a mode of wealth accumulation based on the extraction of raw materials and more-than-human life forms for its commercialisation. As geographer David Harvey (2003) has argued, this process of accumulation relies on the dispossession of common goods through processes of privatisation, financialisation, crisis management and manipulation, and the state redistribution of income. The origin of this pattern goes back to the European colonisation of the Americas in the late 15th and early 16th centuries, and the practices of plunder and expropriation of goods, bodies, and knowledges that this entailed.

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Extraction and Postnature: Redefining Art History in the Age of Energy Brutalism

by Dr. Joaquín Barriendos

Slice 02: Christo / Jeanne-Claude  


Barcelona, May 2025






Hydro-Poetic Station, Future Ecologies (2025)

Hydro-Poetic Station
by Future Ecologies


This installation has been conceived as a hydrologic poem for the Anthropocene. Build on a homeostatic bioremediation system, the piece transforms water toxicity levels into poetic actions. By means of pumps, hoses, and filters, this organic machine keeps the water flowing continuously, oxygenating its poetic materiality and permeable corporeality.



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