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Record Nr.

UNINA9910512204103321

Autore

Page Joanna

Titolo

Decolonizing Science in Latin American Art / / Joanna Page

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London : , : UCL Press, , 2021

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xii, 274 pages)

Disciplina

709.8

Soggetti

Art, Latin American

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

Intro  -- Half Title  -- Series Information  -- Title Page  -- Copyright Page  -- Dedication Page  -- Contents  -- List of figures  -- Acknowledgements  -- Introduction  -- 1 A planetary art beyond the human:  -- I. Inhuman agency  -- II. Seismic encounters and the acoustic sublime  -- 2 The atmosphere as a planetary commons:  -- I. Breathing a common air  -- II. From the Anthropocene to the Aerocene  -- 3 Art and environmental change: beyond apocalypse:  -- I. Art and geodesign for climate change  -- II. Environmental futures beyond precarity: symbiosis and resilience  -- 4 Science in an ecology of knowledges: I. Indigenous cosmologies and cognitive justice  -- II. Transgenic maize: between the milpa and the monoculture  -- 5 Interspecies communication and performance:  -- I. Plantbots and the logic of vegetal life  -- II. The language of cetaceans  -- III. Microbe music  -- 6 Revising systems art: biological time and the ethics of care:  -- I. Slow robotics and the art of bioremediation  -- II. Curation and care  -- 7 Sensory worlds and the pluriverse:  -- I. Spider/webs: from connection to coevolution  -- II. Myrmecology and multispecies communities  -- Conclusion  -- Bibliography  -- Index.

Sommario/riassunto

Decolonizing Science in Latin American Art explores art-science projects by Latin American artists, ranging from big-budget collaborations with NASA and MIT to homegrown experiments in artists' kitchens.