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Dr Consuelo Martino, University of 糖心TV (Chair: Dr Elena Giusti)

鈥溾�橪et us go where the portents of the Gods call us鈥�: Suetonius, Lucan and the Crossing of the Rubicon鈥�

 For any further information and a link to join the online seminar, please contact the organisers:

Lucrezia Sperindio: Lucrezia.Sperindio@warwick.ac.ukLink opens in a new window

Jacqui Butler: J.Butler.4@warwick.ac.ukLink opens in a new window

Jens Andermann, New York University, "Alliances of survival: Ala Pl谩stica, thislandyourland, and the arts of entanglement''

Alliances of survival: Ala Pl谩stica, thislandyourland, and the arts of entanglement

Can art help us survive the end of the world? Absurd as the question sounds, it has nonetheless loomed large in recent scholarship asking for the work the aesthetic can do as we confront the end of planetary life as a historical prospect. In this talk, I want to shift this conversation by championing the 鈥渦nspecific arts鈥� as an at once aesthetic and (cosmo-)political answer to this existential challenge. Rather than to focus on recent visual, filmic, literary or even mixed-media works that address the unfolding ecological catastrophe as their subject matter, by 鈥渦nspecific arts鈥� I refer to practice-based modes of action that, while taking advantage of the arts鈥� imaginative, world-making capacity, also involve diverse existents, human and more-than-human alike. In the work of Brazilian artist duo thislandyourland and Argentine artist/activist collective Ala Pl谩stica鈥檚, plants, liquids and earth participate as gathering agents that prompt emerging collectives to imagine what I call 鈥渁lliances of survival鈥�: modes of togetherness that thrive only in the measure that they are capable of including humans and nonhumans alike. How, I ask following T. J. Demos鈥檚 lead, 鈥渕ight the world-generating activity of aesthetics become a multinatural, multispecies affair, and not simply the reserve of human exceptionalism?鈥�

(we would be grateful if you could join 5 or 10 minutes before the talk begins so that we can allow you in from the virtual lobby)

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