Description
FEATURING
Victoria Douka-Doukopoulou, Elizabeth A. Povinelli, Lisa van Casand, Sasha Litvintseva, Beny Wagner, Devin Hentz, Ameneh Solati, Russell Haswell, Hugo Esquinca, Angeliki Diakrousi, Yara Said
DESCRIPTION
This issue of Ecoes explores the resonating terms and phrases used to express the complex experience of living in a polluted world. The magazine dives deep into the taxonomies of monsters, the unlikely afterlife of discarded clothes in Senegal, the visual evidence of plant responses to polluting substances, the Mesopotamian Marshes as a system of control and resistance, and artistic reflections on making work in a climate of dread and anguish.
Ecoes, the new periodic magazine of Sonic Acts Press, is a portmanteau of the words ‘ecology’ and ‘echoes’. The magazine about ‘art in the age of pollution’ launches a new trajectory for the Press as its first serial publication presenting artistic research year-round and independently of the biennial Sonic Acts Festival or the intervening Sonic Acts Academy.
Ecoes centres loosely around alternatives to the anthropocentric view that sees Earth and the non-human world as an endless resource. It continues Sonic Acts’ focus on presenting compelling artistic and critical perspectives reflecting on the rapidly changing world around us. Malleable in form and size, the magazine dedicates its pages to works and practices that engage deeply with the past, future or afterlives of environmental harm, toxicity and waste.
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 AND 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