Editor in Chief: Mirna Belina
Collaborators: Victoria Douka-Doukopoulou, Margarita Osipian, Stefan Wharton
Copy Editor: Andrea Rožić
Design: Rafaela Dražić
94 pp., 170 g, 16.5 x 23.5 cm, English, December 2021
ISSN: 2772-5685

The second instalment of Ecoes delves into the complexities of living, experiencing, and creating art in a polluted world. Anthropologist Elizabeth Povinelli highlights a key challenge: our language for understanding ecological processes often limits our ability to address crises like toxicity, extractive capitalism, and climate change. Offering a fresh perspective, Sasha Litvintseva and Beny Wagner trace the roots of early modern European science, uncovering how monstrous taxonomies served as prisms for understanding and interpreting the natural world. Expanding the focus beyond the human, David Henz examines the afterlife of discarded clothing in Senegal, while Lisa van Casand studies plant responses to pollutants. Throughout this issue, artistic reflections on creating amid a climate of dread and despair resonate. Unfolding across its pages is a recurring visual essay by Victoria Douka-Doukopoulou – an alternative, sensorial cartography.

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.

Contents

Formally Represented Phenomena – Victoria Douka-Doukopoulou

Elizabeth A. Povinelli: Oozy, Sticky, Crackling Words – Interview by Victoria Douka-Doukopoulou

Fluorescent Signals – Lisa van Casand

All Thoughts Fly: Monster, Taxonomy, Film – Sasha Litvintseva, Beny Wagner

Zombie Clothes – Devin Hentz

The Mesopotamian Marshes: Devices of Control Aad Ecologies of Resistance – Ameneh Solati

★ Russell Haswell, Hugo Esquinca: The Uncontrollable Beast– Interview by Robin Mackay

★ Angeliki Diakrousi: Found In Transmissions – Interview by Sonic Acts

★ Yara Said: Sound As a Carrier Bag of Memories and Traumas – Interview by Sonic Acts