We Are ''Nature'' Defending Itself - Entangling Art, Activism and Autonomous Zones

In 2008, as the storms of the financial crash blew, Isabelle Fremeaux and Jay Jordan deserted the metropolis and their academic jobs, traveling across Europe in search of post-capitalist utopias. They wanted their art activism to no longer be uprooted.They arrived at a place French politicians had declared lost to the republic, otherwise know as the zad (the zone to defend): a messy but extraordinary canvas of commoning, illegally occupying 4,000 acres of wetlands where an international airport was planned. In 2018, the 40-year-long struggle snatched an incredible victory, defeating the airport expansion project through a powerful cocktail that merged creation and resistance.Fremeaux and Jordan blend rich eyewitness accounts with theory, inspired by a diverse array of approaches, from neo-animism to revolutionary biology, insurrectionary writings and radical art history.Published in collaboration with the Journal of Aesthetics & Protest.

Sommario

Preface by Marc Herbst

Tempests

Part I: Seeding

Scream -Disobedient Desires-Following

Swallows-Extinction Machine-Rebel Bocage

Part II: Germinating

Departure Lounge-Desertion-Mud and ACAB-Insurrectionary Inhabiting-Building in the Ruins-A Discipline of Attention-Love and Forgetting

Part III: Rooting

Offensive Defense-Everyday Magic-Compos(t)ing Together-Medieval Futurisms-Victory and Revenge-Gambles and Barricades of Paper

Part IV: Flourishing

No Commoning without Commoners-Synergies and Regards-No Commoners without Rituals-Life is Feeling-200 Years of Art and the World Is Getting Worse-An Art of Life

FUCK 'IT'!

Gratitudes

Notes

Info autore

Isabelle Fremeaux is a popular educator and action researcher. She was formerly Senior Lecturer in Media and Cultural Studies at Birkbeck College London. Along with Jay Jordan, she is a coordinator of The Laboratory of Insurrectionary Imagination.

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Isabelle Fremeaux, Isabelle Jordan Fremeaux, Jay Jordan, John Jordan, Jordan Jay
• Editore: Pluto
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Tascabile
• Pubblicazione: 30.11.2021
• EAN: 9780745345871
• ISBN: 978-0-7453-4587-1
• Pagine: 160
• Dimensioni: 110 mm x 215 mm x 10 mm
• Serie: Vagabonds
• Categorie: Libri scolastici > Didattica > Formazione professionale; Scienze umane, arte, musica > Arte > Tematiche generali, enciclopedie; POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Process / Political Advocacy, SCIENCE / Life Sciences / Ecology, ART / History / General, Philosophy, ART / Art & Politics, History of art / art & design styles, Political activism, Applied ecology, History of Art, Art treatments & subjects, Public Art, Political activism / Political engagement, Nature in the arts