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 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

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