Editor in Chief: Mirna Belina
Editors: Victoria Douka-Doukopoulou, Margarita Osipian
Copy Editor: Andrea Rožić
Design: Rafaela Dražić
153 pp., 300 g, 16.5 x 23.5 cm, English, December 2022
ISSN: 2772-5685

With a ‘feature well on oil’ that dives deep into the ‘petrocapitalist noxiousness’ of our time, Ecoes #4 tells the complex personal stories of artists and researchers, inspiring and transforming different perspectives of reality. The fourth edition interweaves works from Sonic Acts OVEREXPOSED residents with interviews from FieldARTS 2022 participants and other creators and thinkers from our Underexposed mentorship scheme, all considering the composite ways toxicity can be buried, leaked, and unearthed across scales of daily life and deep time. From personal experiences of cancer treatment, caregiving and its aftereffects, to building relations with mounds, piles and heaps all around us; from the long-lasting impact of the 2002 MV Prestige oil spill off the coast of Spain, to ecological colonialism covering destroyed Palestinian villages with Aleppo pine; from misused restoration of the seminal oil pool sculpture by Noriyuki Haraguchi, to poetry by Russian queer feminist poet Galina Rymbu that ‘historicises the chokehold on oil, gas, and grain supply, now crystallised in the invasion of Ukraine’. This issue of Ecoes offers a powerful immersion into art during times of pain, toxicity, illness and crude capitalism.

About Ecoes Magazine

Ecoes unpacks alternatives to the anthropocentric perspective that approaches the nonhuman as a resource. A portmanteau of ‘ecology’ and ‘echoes’, this periodic magazine about ‘art in the age of pollution’ showcases compelling artistic and critical perspectives that engage with the past, future or afterlives of environmental harm, toxicity, extraction, and waste.

Contents

Introduction – Mirna Belina

Oil’s Depth Of Field(S) – Jeff Diamanti

Oil, Gas, Dust: From The Sahara To Europe – Samia Henni

★ Tidal Memory: Six Fragments Of An Oil Spill – Miriam Matthiessen

‘crude Oil Shaping Forms Of Writing’: Galia Rymbu’s Life In Space – Fred Carter

Body, Matter And Mind – Shirin Sabahi

★ Marit Mihlepp: If There Is Nowhere To Hold On To, Root Into Yourself And Grow From There – Interview By Victoria Douka-Doukopoulou

Tracing The Invisible: Slow Violence, Fükeiron, And The Right To Return – Inas Halabi

Sentences About Rivers And Cancers – Lucky Dragons, Luke Fischbeck

Cancer Is A Weather System – Lucky Dragons, Sarah Rara

★ Anguille Vannamel: Fertile Waters – Interview By Sonic Acts

★ Erik Peters: Collaborative Worldbuilding – Interview By Sonic Acts