Center for Creative Ecologies

Next up: The Annual UCLA Art History Graduate Student Symposium, 2024, the description of which could not be more timely:

"In the spring of 2024, student protests in support of Palestine on college campuses across North America were met with violent suppression. Sanctioned by university administrators and carried out by militarized police forces, these actions laid bare key contradictions within the academy, engendering a sense of crisis across campuses domestically and internationally. While crisis persists as a state of abstraction, artistic and scholarly responses render it material. With this in mind, we ask: What is an art history of crisis?; What does art history offer us in crisis?; How does art respond to crisis?; Can art engender crisis?; What role has crisis played in shaping the study and creation of art?; And what are our roles as scholars?"

Many thanks to UCLA grads for organizing this!

My keynote, “A Hole the Size of Poetry: On the Crisis of Speech and Meaning in the Arts Today,” will address the current context of university and museum censorship and the crisis of academic freedom and speech in relation to genocide in Gaza.

Hope to see you in LA!

An important contribution

The Destruction of Palestine Is the Destruction of the Earth This essay is a lightly edited version of a lecture given at the American University of Beirut, The Center for Arts and Humanities and Critical Humanities for the Liberal Arts on 4 April. We use the image above, White Phosphorous #2, with permission from the artist, Rafat Asad. Rafat is a Palestinia...

My most recent piece on the aesthetics of counterinsurgency and abolition ecology, in e-flux journal:

“If, as Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò warns, ‘climate apartheid’ is on the rise, then Cop City Atlanta offers an ominous flashpoint. For not only is Cop City an exemplary story of the violent repression of community activism at the nexus of abolition, decolonization, and environmentalism; it also spotlights the forces of counterinsurgency that are operating to prevent any political transformation beyond the status quo. If the environmentalist movement is losing in the struggle to stop world-ending climate change, then continuing to focus on practices of ecological repair is increasingly myopic, even escapist, *without* taking into account the forces blocking any meaningful change.”

https://www.e-flux.com/journal/143/590415/counterinsurgent-cop-city-abolition-ecology-and-the-aesthetics-of-counterreform/

Please join us for "Nuclear Nows: Contemporary Art, Radiation, and Militarized Ecologies," Part 2, organized by Zoe Weldon-Yochin and T. J. Demos, of the Center for Creative Ecologies, UC Santa Cruz

Tue, Mar 12,12-2pm PST

Zoom, Free, Pre-Register

An online double-seminar organized by Ph.D. Candidate Zoe Weldon-Yochim and History of Art and Visual Culture Professor T. J. Demos, “Nuclear Nows: Contemporary Art, Radiation, and Militarized Ecologies” brings together leading interdisciplinary researchers, artists, and activists focused on radiation and militarized ecologies in relation to art, visual culture, and socio-environmental troubles. The two panels comprising the event invite productively entangled ways of thinking about the enduring presence of atomic violence from perspectives of and beyond the arts, reaching out to the many material, social, technological, and political networks that sustain the ongoing toxic features of the nuclear age. Each panel invites overlapping and varied ways of thinking about the enduring presence of atomic violence from the perspective of the arts, and will investigate both the networks and representations crucial to sustaining the ongoing toxic features of the nuclear age, and the political and aesthetic practices necessary to resist them.

For more info: https://arts.ucsc.edu/news_events/seminar-nuclear-nows-contemporary-art-radiation-and-militarized-ecologies

Register here: https://ucsc.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_eBS3gCQbR12F9DZHVeUsaQ #/registration

* Image credit: Courtesy of Susan Schuppli, Still from "Trace Evidence" (2016).

Please join us for "Nuclear Nows: Contemporary Art, Radiation, and Militarized Ecologies," organized by Zoe Weldon-Yochin and T. J. Demos, of the Center for Creative Ecologies, UC Santa Cruz

Tue, Mar 5, 2-4pm PST
Tue, Mar 12,12-2pm PST

Zoom, Free, Pre-Register

An online double-seminar organized by Ph.D. Candidate Zoe Weldon-Yochim and History of Art and Visual Culture Professor T. J. Demos, “Nuclear Nows: Contemporary Art, Radiation, and Militarized Ecologies” brings together leading interdisciplinary researchers, artists, and activists focused on radiation and militarized ecologies in relation to art, visual culture, and socio-environmental troubles. The two panels comprising the event invite productively entangled ways of thinking about the enduring presence of atomic violence from perspectives of and beyond the arts, reaching out to the many material, social, technological, and political networks that sustain the ongoing toxic features of the nuclear age. Each panel invites overlapping and varied ways of thinking about the enduring presence of atomic violence from the perspective of the arts, and will investigate both the networks and representations crucial to sustaining the ongoing toxic features of the nuclear age, and the political and aesthetic practices necessary to resist them.

For more info and registration: https://arts.ucsc.edu/news_events/seminar-nuclear-nows-contemporary-art-radiation-and-militarized-ecologies

Envisioning Indigenous Futures: Contemporary Art, Decolonization, Climate Justice

With Cannupa Hanska Luger and T. J. Demos

Tue, May 3, 2022, 4-5:30pm PST

Foregrounding the power of art to imagine futures of liberation, this timely event will address the recent turn toward science fiction as a mode of emancipatory collective thinking, including in Indigenous creative practices. Deeply connected to the politics of decolonization, land back, and climate justice, art offers a methodology of future dreaming, one that can carry us through and beyond the social and environmental crises of the present.

Spring 2022 CCE Newsletter - https://mailchi.mp/63972b5436e2/spring-2022-cce-newsletter On our recent activities—from Climate Emergency > Emergence, Climate Reparations, Ecologies of Repair, Beyond the End of the World, Just Futures, and more...

Congratulations to all who helped put this book together! Adding my own many thanks and immense gratitude to my fellow editors Emily Eliza Scott and Subhankar Banerjee who were instrumental in making this happen--so long (years) in the making! And also to all the amazing and generous contributors, who have made it the major accomplishment it is! It was a real pleasure and a super rewarding experience to work on this with everyone!

Lesley Green and Virginia MacKenny, Paulo Tavares, Rodrigo Nunes and Alyne Costa, Lucy Lippard, Jessica Mulvogue, Nabil Ahmed and Ester Cann, Macarena Gomez-Barris, Alessandro Zagato and Natalia Arcos (GIAP), Sara Mameni, Sintia Issa, Connie Zheng, Amber Hickey, Isabelle Carbonel, Sarah Kanous, Bo Zheng with Beth Stephens and Annie Sprinkle, Julie Sze, Salma Monani, Renata Burchfield, Danika Medak-Saltzman and William Lempert, Lisa Bloom, Heather Davis, Jennifer Gabrys, Amy Balkin, Caroline Jones, Suzanne Boettger, Birgit Schneider, Julie Decker, Nomusa Makhubu, Elaine Gan, Rose B. Simpson in Conversation with Jessica Horton, Ashley Dawson, Maya Fowkes and Reuben Fowkes, Ron Broglio, Alan C. Braddock and Anita Krajnc, Ravi Agarwal, Inez Blanca van der Scheer, John Jordan, Carol Farbotko and Taukiei Kitara, Emma Mahony, Beka Economopoulos and Jason Jones, Finis Dunaway, and MelanieYazzie and Nick Estes!

Also, thanks to Not An Alternative / The Natural History Museum for letting us use their image for the cover, which we unanimously selected and supported!

Here's the extended caption: Not An Alternative / The Natural History Museum, Photo from “Mining the HMNS: An Investigation by The Natural History Museum” exhibition at Project Row Houses, Houston, 2016. The exhibition interrogated the symbiotic relationship between the Houston Museum of Natural Sciences and its corporate sponsors, reinterpreting the museum’s displays and highlighting the voices and stories that are excluded: those of the low-income Latinx communities living alongside Houston’s petrochemical complex. Community members were provided with toy dinosaurs equipped with air quality sensors (featured is Yudith Azareth Nieto, activist and resident of Manchester, Texas), not only referencing the geological history of petroleum documented in the HMNS (formed from organic matter dating to the Jurassic and Cretaceous periods of the Mesozoic Era), but also symbolically calling for the extinction of the present-day fossil fuel industry as a central perpetrator of climate violence and environmental injustice. Situated at the confluence of scientific research, environmental justice, and critical museum practice, the exhibition aimed to model the museum of the future–one that promotes a collective response to the challenges of the Anthropocene. (Photo: Not An Alternative / The Natural History Museum).

https://www.routledge.com/.../Demos.../p/book/9780367221102

Upcoming! Nick Estes and Melanie K.Yazzie, of The Red Nation
Thursday, January 21st 2021, 4:30pm – 6:30pm (PST)
Virtual (via ZOOM), UC Santa Cruz

Nick Estes (Lower Brule Sioux) and Melanie Yazzie (Diné) of The Red Nation, respond to the prompt: What lies beyond dystopian catastrophism, and how can we cultivate radical futures of social justice and ecological flourishing?

Welcomed by Chairman Valentin Lopez (Amah Mutsun). Moderated by Mayanthi Fernando and T. J. Demos

Nick Estes is Kul Wicasa from the Lower Brule Sioux Tribe. He is an Assistant Professor of American Studies at the University of New Mexico, the author of Our History Is the Future: Standing Rock Versus the Dakota Access Pipeline, and the Long Tradition of Resistance (Verso, 2019), and the host of The Red Nation Podcast.

Melanie K. Yazzie, PhD, is Assistant Professor of Native American Studies and American Studies at the University of New Mexico. She specializes in Navajo/American Indian history, political ecology, Indigenous feminisms, q***r Indigenous studies, and theories of policing and the state. She also organizes with The Red Nation, a grassroots Native-run organization committed to the liberation of Indigenous people from colonialism and capitalism.

Valentin Lopez has been the Chairman of the Amah Mutsun Tribal Band since 2003, one of three historic tribes that are recognized as Ohlone. Valentin is Mutsun, Awaswas, Chumash and Yokuts. The Amah Mutsun are comprised of the documented descendants of Missions San Juan Bautista and Santa Cruz. Valentin Lopez is a Native American Advisor to the University of California, Office of the President on issues related to repatriation.

Beyond the End of the World comprises a year-long research and exhibition project and public lecture series, directed by T. J. Demos of the Center for Creative Ecologies, bringing leading international thinkers and cultural practitioners to UC Santa Cruz. Funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation John E. Sawyer Seminar on the Comparative Study of Culture. For more information visit BEYOND.UCSC.EDU

Nick Estes + Melanie K. Yazzie – Beyond the End of the World Nick Estes + Melanie K. Yazzie December 7, 2020December 9, 2020 cadsitmoUncategorized Nick Estes and Melanie K. Yazzie, of The Red Nation Thursday, January 21st 2021, 4:30pm – 6:30pm (PST) Virtual (via ZOOM), UC Santa Cruz   Nick Estes (Lower Brule Sioux) and Melanie Yazzie (Diné) of The Red Nat...

Tomorrow, Friday Nov 20, 10am-12 PST on zoom: Please join us for a panel discussion and Q&A with the Center for Creative Ecologies artist and curatorial team Isabelle Carbonell, Hannah Meszaros Martin, and T.J. Demos. The team will be discussing their latest exhibition at Manifesta 13 Marseille the European Nomadic Biennial, and the work of contributing artists Isabelle Carbonell and Hannah Meszaros Martin.

War ecologies call forth not just mutuality but collapse, survival within violence. Conflict involves corporate extraction and militarised assaults on environments and environmentalists, while multispecies life and coexistence fall under grave threat. In its curatorial presentation, the Center for Creative Ecologies offers two artistic case studies asking what kind of pluriverse is possible in the face of different kinds of socioecological violence? The first study addresses the criminalisation of nonhuman life in Putumayo, southern Colombia by Hannah Meszaros Martin; the other considers sci-fi surrealism and extinction in Mar Menor, a saltwater lagoon in southeastern Spain, by Isabelle Carbonell. These comprise part of the Center’s ongoing research project Beyond the End of the World, which seeks out spaces of hope emerging from geographies of despair. War ecologies identify not only neoliberal enterprises using climate breakdown to introduce authoritarian politics, but also struggles – human and more-than-human – for ways to transcend the forces of socio-economic inequality and politico-environmental calamity.

Register here: https://ucsc.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJEld-2uqT0rHdGQ4HSa3VpgPepdtTbRW-Uw

https://beyond.sites.ucsc.edu/manifesta-13-artist-talk/

Welcome! You are invited to join a meeting: Manifesta 13 Artist Talk. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the meeting. Please join us for a panel discussion and Q&A with the Center for Creative Ecologies artist and curatorial team.

Center for Creative Ecologies: Welcome to our Fall 2020 Newsletter!- https://mailchi.mp/20f567acb74f/fall-2020-newsletter-3072541 With updates on our contribution to the Manifesta 13 Biennial in Marseille France (featuring the art work of Hannah Meszaros Martin and Isabelle Carbonell) and an upcoming public discussion this Friday Nov 20; reports on a recent CCE presentation of Black Quantum Futurism and Moor Mother; our ongoing Beyond the End of the World research and exhibition project; a new publication; upcoming events and more!

Manifesta 13 Marseille opened this past weekend featuring an exhibition, The Park at the Musée D'Histoire Naturelle with .ucsc fellows Isabelle Carbonell and Hannah Meszaros Martin. Up next is a three part film screening series and Q&A session organized by . For more information follow and check out the website www.manifesta13.org for the program of events.

Photo still from film A MIRROR OF THE COSMOS made with and Duane Peterson.

This week we will be highlighting the Super Futures Haunt Qollective (SFHQ) , an art and research-based collaboration between three avatars: SFAOW (Specularity: Fugitive-Alterity Or Whatever), Agent O, and Lady HOW (Haunting Or Whatever).
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SFHQ shares a theoretical and visceral relationship to haunting as a decolonial and inevitable response to the violence of colonialism. SFHQ performatively presents its members as “future ghosts” — stylized, costumed bodies that tend to appear and disappear in culturally loaded places.
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In the audio piece “Visitation: From Chiloquin to Seattle Via the Specularity 2118″ (2018), the SFHQ imagines a conversation between Kikisoblu, the daughter of Chief Seattle, and F***y Ball, a Modoc ancestor of collective member Lady HOW (Haunting or Whatever). You can experience the installation online (link in bio). Photos by and .ucsc

Exhibition opening TOMORROW titled: Beyond the World’s End. Come explore how art can help us think creatively about combating climate change and social injustices. There will be a walkthrough with the curator (T.J. Demos) at 12:00pm from the lobby. 📸 Allora and Calzadilla

Please join us on Wednesday March 4th 2020 at Landmark’s Del Mar Theater for the first night (Part I) of the Radical Futurisms Screening Series. Featuring films by Black Audio Film Collective, Kahlil Joseph, Black Quantum Futurism, Danis Goulet, and Woodbine Collective. The event is free and open to the public, please use the link in bio to reserve your tickets.

Please join us this week for the next keynote in the Beyond the End of the World Lecture Series: Amitav Gosh, “Unmuting the Brutes” on Thursday February 27th 2020. Amitav Gosh will speak at the UC Santa Cruz Music Recital Hall. There will be a book signing after the talk hosted by

Please register for the event online. For more information and to register please visit our website: beyond.ucsc.edu

We write from Beyond the End of the World, our ongoing Mellon Sawyer Seminar at UC Santa Cruz, which comprises a year-long research and exhibition project directed by T. J. Demos of the Center for Creative Ecologies. It includes a public lecture series bringing leading thinkers, visionary writers, and cultural practitioners to campus—most recently, Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor—to discuss what lies beyond dystopian catastrophism, and how we can cultivate radical futures of social justice and ecological flourishing. Coming up at UCSC we have: Amitav Ghosh, award-winning fiction writer and author of The Great Derangement: Climate Change and the Unthinkable (February 27, 2020); Nick Estes (Lower Brule Sioux), co-founder of Red Nation and author of Our History Is the Future: Standing Rock Versus the Dakota Access Pipeline, and the Long Tradition of Indigenous Resistance (April 15, 2020); Melanie Yazzie (Bilagáana/Diné), Red Nation member and co-editor of Decolonization: Indigeneity, Education and Society (April 15, 2020); and artist-activists Amin Husain and Nitasha Dhillon of MTL / Decolonize This Place, an action-oriented movement centering Indigenous struggle, Black liberation, free Palestine, global wage workers and de-gentrification (April 29, 2020).

Center for Creative Ecologies: Winter 2020 Newsletter

The .ucsc Winter/Spring newsletter is out! You can subscribe to our newsletter online @ creativeecologies.ucsc.edu to find out about our recent and upcoming events, publications and exhibitions.

With generous funding from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, the University of Oregon’s Center for Environmental Futures announces its first annual “Writing the Environmental Humanities for Public Audiences” workshop.

The workshop will take place August 5-August 9, 2019 (with arrival and departure on August 4 and 10), at Silver Falls Resort and Conference Center, located within Silver Falls State Park, in Silverton, Oregon. It is located roughly 80 miles north of Eugene and 70 miles south of Portland. Many call Silver Falls, known for its waterfalls, the Crown Jewel of Oregon’s state parks. Accommodations at the conference center will be in shared cabins, and meals will include vegetarian and vegan options, if desired.

The workshop is limited to 12 participants, with at least 8 from the University of Oregon, and up to 4 from beyond the UO community. Faculty and graduate students in the Environmental Humanities and allied fields (for example ecological approaches to literature, gender, religion, politics, philosophy, and/or race; animal studies; indigenous studies, environmental justice, ethics and sustainability; environmental history, art/architectural history and criticism, historical/cultural geography; anthropology, or sociology) are eligible to apply. Both aspiring and accomplished non-fiction writers who want to learn a more literary narrative style to engage a wider public audience are encouraged to apply.

The workshop, lodging, meals, and transportation are free of cost to UO faculty and graduate students. Those selected from outside the UO community will receive up to $500 to reimburse travel costs, with no charge for the workshop, lodging, and meals.

The workshop will be led by Karen Piper, an award winning professor of literature and geography at the University of Missouri, Columbus. Piper is the author of The Price of Thirst: Water Scarcity and the Coming Chaos, which won the Next Generation Indie Book Award in current events, and A Girl’s Guide to Missiles: Growing Up in America’s Secret Desert, among other books. She has also received a Sierra nature writing award.

Applicants should send a CV, a letter explaining why you would benefit from this workshop and a description of the essay or book chapter you intend to work on during the workshop, and a writing sample to Alison Mildrexler, [email protected], by May 15, 2019. Successful applicants will be notified by June 15 and must send a draft of the essay they intend to workshop by June 30.

With generous funding from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, the University of Oregon’s Center for Environmental Futures announces its first annual “Writing the Environmental Humanities for Public Audiences” workshop.

The workshop will take place August 5-August 9, 2019 (with arrival and departure on August 4 and 10), at Silver Falls Resort and Conference Center, located within Silver Falls State Park, in Silverton, Oregon. It is located roughly 80 miles north of Eugene and 70 miles south of Portland. Many call Silver Falls, known for its waterfalls, the Crown Jewel of Oregon’s state parks. Accommodations at the conference center will be in shared cabins, and meals will include vegetarian and vegan options, if desired.
The workshop is limited to 12 participants, with at least 8 from the University of Oregon, and up to 4 from beyond the UO community. Faculty and graduate students in the Environmental Humanities and allied fields (for example ecological approaches to literature, gender, religion, politics, philosophy, and/or race; animal studies; indigenous studies, environmental justice, ethics and sustainability; environmental history, art/architectural history and criticism, historical/cultural geography; anthropology, or sociology) are eligible to apply. Both aspiring and accomplished non-fiction writers who want to learn a more literary narrative style to engage a wider public audience are encouraged to apply.

The workshop, lodging, meals, and transportation are free of cost to UO faculty and graduate students. Those selected from outside the UO community will receive up to $500 to reimburse travel costs, with no charge for the workshop, lodging, and meals.

The workshop will be led by Karen Piper, an award winning professor of literature and geography at the University of Missouri, Columbus. Piper is the author of The Price of Thirst: Water Scarcity and the Coming Chaos, which won the Next Generation Indie Book Award in current events, and A Girl’s Guide to Missiles: Growing Up in America’s Secret Desert, among other books. She has also received a Sierra nature writing award.

Applicants should send a CV, a letter explaining why you would benefit from this workshop and a description of the essay or book chapter you intend to work on during the workshop, and a writing sample to Alison Mildrexler, [email protected], by May 15, 2019. Successful applicants will be notified by June 15 and must send a draft of the essay they intend to workshop by June 30.

Spring 2019 Newsletter! - https://mailchi.mp/b8ce550a8733/spring-2019-newsletter
What critical resources are offered in anti-capitalist political praxis, Indigenous decolonial movements, radical traditions of the oppressed, and post-anthropocentric philosophies? Where can we glimpse potential futures and new worlds grounded in social justice and ecological flourishing, and how can these be cultivated through creative aesthetic practices? Check out the recent and forthcoming activities of the Center for Creative Ecologies...

On the way, the next collective CASA GIAP's residence in Chiapas!!!! very soon more information....

Thanks to Eliza Steinbock for posting--what an amazing formulation!

OPEN CALL FOR ‘ECOFUTURES’
DEADLINE: SUNDAY 20 JANUARY 2019

Arts Feminism Q***r (CUNTemporary) is now accepting proposals for Deep Trash: Eco Trash and Q***r-feminist Ecocriticism in Live Art & Visual Cultures, which will be part of the larger programme ‘EcoFutures’, taking place in (London, UK) in April 2019.

The programme will explore urgent topics ranging from ecological disasters and their impact on climate refugees; plastic/toxic waste and the contamination of aquatic and human bodies; the relationship between increasing air toxicity and human and animal diseases; high-speed capitalist consumption and the ungovernable production of trash and techno-waste; from neo-colonialist soil exploitations to indigenous land reclamations and green economies; the rise of temperature and sea levels and their direct effects on the environment, with a focus on the Global South / Majority World.

Artists, activists and theorists are invited to engage with these topics through feminist, q***r and decolonial approaches to provide alternatives that draw from situated knowledges, eco-sustainable modes of living, non-exploitative human and animal relations within ecosystems, as well as speculative scenarios of imagined futures, nature-based spirituality, earth magick, feminine powers and ecosexuality.

We are calling for:

a) Performances, videos, installations, prints and other 2D/3D and time-based media artworks for the multi-disciplinary exhibition and performance club night ‘Deep Trash: Eco Trash’ on Friday 19 April 2019 at Bethnal Green Working Men’s Club.
b) Theoretical output and (performative) lectures to be presented during the 1-day conference ‘Q***r-feminist Ecocriticism in Live Art & Visual Cultures’ on Saturday 13 April 2019. This will be hosted by the Department of Drama at Queen Mary University and will include contributions by guest speakers Gaia Giuliani (University of Coimbra, Portugal), Shela Sheikh (Goldsmiths University, UK) and João Florencio (Exeter University, UK); screenings of works by Adelita Husni-Bey and Wangechi Mutu; with more special guests from Europe and the US to be announced soon.
c) Written contributions (articles, write-ups, interviews, short essays, cross-genre, creative writing…) for an editorial piece to be published online at www.cuntemporary.org/editorial

Your proposal may include, respond to, be affected by, but not restricted to:

- Indigenous and native two-spirited/trans responses to land expropriations and natural destructions.
- Connections between toxic masculinity and ecotoxicology
- Creating sustainable micro-economies against capitalist exploitation/new forms of labour from a gendered perspective.
- Hysteria and Nature: historical representations and contemporary subversions of the association between untamable femininity and environmental disasters.
- Climate change and the impact on the Majority World and the ecosystems: from the rise of water levels to the Sixth Mass extinction of species.
- Projections of monstrosity and alienation: how climate refugees face increasing racism and xenophobia.
- Environmental disasters, alien/monster attacks and post-apocalyptic events wiping out the white, able-bodied, nuclear heteronormative family (and associated values).
- Afrofuturist connections to botanic healing and eco-spirituality.
- Plastic pollution in water and the ecosystems: eco-destructions and creation of new forms of water bodies’ resistance in speculative fiction scenarios.
- Politics of DIY and bio-hacking experimentation: cyborg organisms and non-human to human hybridisation.
- Trash and techno-waste as resources for post-porn activism.
- Transspecies relationality and hybridity: from animal to geological and water alliances.
- How animal sexualities resist normative ideas of sexuality and gender and the perception of ‘natural/deviant’ in human discourses.
- Ecology without nature or ‘dark ecology’: symptoms of ecological catastrophes and dystopic visions of ‘non-human’ worlds and societies.
- Feminist critiques of (m)Anthropocene theories.
- Ecosexuality as a form of resistance to heteronormative relationality and anthropocentrism.
- Critiques and reflections on meat consumption and q***r-vegan standpoints.
- Meat, flesh and cannibalism: radical approaches to human and non-human body politics.
- Anarchic and anti-speciesist utopias.
- Transexuality and q***r genealogies in plant and animal domains.
- Affective Xenopolitics: anti-systemic struggles for the emergence of new alliances in bio- and ecological territories beyond the rhetoric of (nationalist and other) belonging.
- Eco-rituals ranging from neo-paganism, wicca, green witches, radical faeries, pansexual communities and menstrual magick.
- Shamanism and the practice of curanderas: the power of healing with herbs and channeling supernatural dimensions.
- The impact of colonialism, globalisation and capitalist-industrial development on the ecological demise of the colonised territories and periphery countries.

For more Information & How to Apply please follow the link below: https://cuntemporary.org/open-call-for-ecofutures/

Join the Open Call on Facebook and watch trailers of our previous events on Youtube.

Editorial Arts organisation working with individuals and groups that explore feminist and q***r art practices and theories.