Datum/Zeit
Date(s) - 05/03/2025
14:00 - 16:00
Veranstaltungsort
inherit. heritage in transformation. [1]
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Kategorien
- Gesprächsrunde [3]
- Projektpräsentation [4]
The Fabric of Ecologies: Rethinking Inheritance Through Materiality, Aesthetics and Sensory Networks
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Paper presentations and sound performance
The notion of ecology has unfolded from multiple perspectives over the past two centuries. In recent decades, its public use—shaped by the urgency of the climate crisis—has compelled a reformulation of the concepts it encompasses. Once rooted in a pastoral understanding of the economy of nature, ecology has evolved into scientific frameworks that link it to living systems and the technical infrastructures of anthropic origin. Within this broader context, this meeting aims to explore heritage-aesthetic-material questions that highlight how ecology continues to hold critical relevance for both philosophy, critical heritage studies and public debate. Reconsidering the problem of ecologies from a materialist and aesthetic perspective requires revisiting the ways in which human and non-human sensory networks intertwine with and within the world forging a multiplicity of forms of inheritance.
Among the new non-human material agents rehabilitated through the Anthropocenic discussion, we focus on two dimensions that enable a critical examination of the imaginary frameworks shaping these debates. First, the issue of greenery and plants, which functions as an index of a particular notion of ecology while also engaging with the challenges and promises of sustainability. Second, our relationship with the atmosphere and the sky, which invites a renewed consideration of the planet, reviving yet simultaneously questioning the imaginaries of space conquest—a central motif in capitalist science fiction. By engaging with these dimensions, we aim to illuminate how ecologies and their associated imaginaries remain vital grounds for critical inquiry and creative engagement.
Presenters:
Noelia Billi holds Bachelor and Doctorate degrees in Philosophy from the University of Buenos Aires, where she teaches Philosophical Anthropology for the Philosophy Department. She serves as an Associate Researcher at CONICET. Her primary area of focus is posthuman materialism, within which she is dedicated to the examination of critical ecologies and the vegetal logics of existence.
Guadalupe Lucero holds a PhD and a Professorship in Philosophy (University of Buenos Aires) and a Master’s degree in Aesthetics and Contemporary Art Theory (Autonomous University of Barcelona). She teaches Aesthetics at the University of Buenos Aires and the National University of the Arts and is an Associate Researcher at CONICET. She works on aesthetics issues of postman materialism, non-human agencies and sound art.
Agustín Genoud: Performer, musician and academic in the fields of contemporary voice and posthumanism.Agustín builds systems and design processes that expand and transform vocal production. Agustín produces expanded voice techniques that modulate and interfere with the sounds humanly assigned to the vocal tract through machinic and animalistic gestures. Agustín facilitates collective spaces such as workshops and practices on processes of dehumanization of the voice and vocal and sound deterritorialization.