Ecoes #1
Editor in Chief: Mirna Belina
Copy Editor: Jason Coburn
Design: Rafaela Dražić
135 pp., 300 g, 16.5 x 23.5 cm, English, April 2021
ISSN: 2772-5685
The first issue of Ecoes brings together artists that focus on mining, microplastics, the origins of the blues from an Indigenous perspective that sees humans as entangled with the environment, Cold War toxic legacies and depleted uranium, invasive species and deadly clouds in one of the epicentres of extractivist operations in the Russian Arctic. Among the contributors, Sissel Tonn shares her thoughts on immunology, sentinel species, scales, and inequality in an interview about her audio walk Plastic Hypersea commissioned by Sonic Acts. The six residency recipients of OVEREXPOSED deliberate on various spatial and temporal scales of pollution, while the pieces in Night Air respond to myths that hold foul air from decaying organic matter as causing illness.
About Ecoes Magazine
Ecoes is a magazine about sound art, technology, and ecology, published by Sonic Acts. A portmanteau of ‘ecology’ and ‘echoes’, it is rooted in environmental concerns and investigates how auditory practices shape our understanding of contemporary worlds — human and nonhuman. Through critical essays, artistic contributions, and interviews, each issue amplifies alternative ways of sensing, interpreting, and intervening in a rapidly changing planet.
Content
Introduction – Mirna Belina
Unearth – Anika Schwarzlose, Brian D. Mckenna
Sissel Marie Tonn: Sensitivity To Pollution – Interview by Stefan Wharton
Melt: Melting Time — Margarita Osipian
Maryam Monalisa Gharavi: But It Was There For The Taking – Margarita Osipian
Devin Hentz: Situating Fashion – Victoria Douka-Doukopoulou, Pim Sem Benjamin
Angela Chan: Communal Climate Knowledges – Victoria Douka-Doukopoulou
Ameneh Solati: Challenging Architecture – Mirna Belina
Arjuna Neuman: Residence Time – Mirna Belina
For Lula, Mississippi – Arjuna Neuman
Sarah Kanouse: Spotting Radioactive Hot Spots – Interview by Kyveli Mavrokordopoulou
Shifting Kind – Carson Fisk-Vittori
Worlding Weird Worlds – Rosa Whiteley