Drifts, resistances and arts in the Anthropocene
The core of this call lies in the perception of a global process of instability that affects several areas of human and non-human social experience and action. By thinking about a dynamic of deconstruction of the Anthropocene era, we are fostering a more comprehensive understanding around processes of (re)construction of individual and collective identities. This includes aspects such as ecofeminism, multidimensional ecosystems, migrations, colonialism and decolonial thinking, climate change, extractivism, among others. Such debates involve a whole diversity of dynamics that have, in the arts, their most perennial and refounding focus of expression. Thus, we propose artistic drifts and resistances regarding the Anthropocene that result from convergence, communication and exchange in the areas of sociology, anthropology, cultural economics, cultural studies, urban studies, artistic education, humanities, architecture, art history, among others.
We propose drifts around art, its spaces and hierarchies; in the relations between art and the public sphere; in the logics of spatialization and territorialization of cultural practices; in cultural institutions and artistic practices in contemporary culture; in the connections between sociology, anthropology and contemporary art; in street art, graffiti, in the city and among youth; urban landscapes, arts and cities; in curatorships, engagements and artistic identities; art criticism; cultural and artistic diversity; in identities, diasporas and nationalities; in globalization; in technology and the (dis)enchantments of the world; in documentary film and ethnographic narratives; in objects, memories, inheritances and collections; in perspectives on the body, gender and fashion in contemporary times; in the issues of expanded poetics and resistance music; in theatre, creation, language and contestation; in festivals, events and the cosmopolitanism of contemporary culture; in underground and subversive artistic manifestations; in publications on art and social life; in the role of the arts in social inclusion; in the relationships between cultural dynamics and public space; in the externalities, positive and negative, of cultural activities; in the relationships between artistic performance, cultural policies and the development of territories. All these debates will be supported by the matrix of polyhedral relationships between art, politics and nature.
The arts as emancipatory structures can be associated with the Anthropocene, since both perspectives aim to address the multiple crises associated with harmful social arrangements that intersect civil society and the biosphere, both generated by a destructive capitalist modernity. But the Anthropocene also presents itself as an indelible unequal structure: The Anthropocene brings together the normative model of humanity, namely because it reiterates and expands the structural inequalities between sex/gender, race/colonial, dominant/dominated classes and man/species. Thus, this call also aims to deconstruct the hegemonic narrative about the Anthropocene, presenting alternative paths for citizen reconstitution through the polyhedral arts.
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Organized by: Paula Guerra
Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of Porto and Researcher at the Institute of Sociology of the same University. Adjunct Associate Professor at the Griffith Centre for Social and Cultural Research at Griffith University in Australia. She is also a researcher at CITCEM – Transdisciplinary Research Center for Culture, Space and Memory, at the Center for Studies in Geography and Spatial Planning (CEGOT) and at DINÂMIA'CET – Iscte, Center for Studies on Socioeconomic Change and Territory.
