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FEATURING
Dani Admiss, Antonia Alampi, Angeliki Balayannis, Louis Braddock Clarke, Zuzanna Zgierska, Yolanda Ariadne Collins, Sophie Dyer, Sasha Engelmann, John Grzinich, Andreas Kühne, Mary Maggic, Kyveli Mavrokordopoulou, Agnès Villette, MELT (Ren Loren Britton & Isabel Paehr), Aura Satz, Noam Youngrak Son, Andrea Galano Toro, pantea
DESCRIPTION
The third instalment of Ecoes considers the upcoming edition of Sonic Acts Festival 2022. Images and texts combine to reveal the elemental forces, synthetic or natural, that create tension in the world around us. Legacies of toxic infrastructures and hazardous waste, ways of reclaiming and refiguring definitions of ‘normal’ and ‘natural’, multi-scalar and multi-sited journeys of microbes, eels, glaciers, and unstable polder grounds that house nuclear infrastructures are visited throughout the pages of this voluminous issue. Contemporary theoretical discourse and speculative fiction on weather as a tool to destabilise knowledge traditions, interviews with artists whose practices invite us to look and listen anew, and one inlay, a map to move within non-normative time – all gather to create a rigorous, diverse, and visually striking edition.
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
- LEAVING TRACES
Mirna Belina - LEGACIES
Angeliki Balayannis - THE BODY IS NOT A SOVEREIGN OBJECT: FIGHTING THE HABIT OF LOOKING AWAY
Dani Admiss - ALL WASHED OVER BY HORMONES OF LOVING GRACE
Mary Maggic - WEATHERING WEATHER: ATMOSPHERIC GEOGRAPHIES OF THE GUIANA SHIELD
Yolanda Ariadne Collins - TOXIC BONDS
Antonia Alampi - NUCLEAR POLDERS IN LIMBO: THE RAGGED LANDSCAPE OF GRAVELINES
Kyveli Mavrokordopoulou, Agnès Villette - WHEN I IMAGE THE EARTH, I IMAGINE ANOTHER
open weather (Sasha Engelmann, Sophie Dyer) - AURA SATZ: SPEAKING TO EMERGENCIES
Interview by Victoria Douka-Doukopoulou - JOHN GRZINICH: AEOLIAN HARPS AND FILTERING CERTAIN MODES OF PERCEPTION
Interview by Maud Seuntjens - OUT OF FOCUS: DOWN THE CRIMSON CLIFFS, PAST THE FJORD OF THE DEAD, OVER THE SIGNAL MOUNTAIN
Louis Braddock Clarke, Zuzanna Zgierska - DE ALLÁ PA ACÁ
Andrea Galano Toro - NEVER ODD OR EVEN – A WOBBLY MAP FOR TIME TRAVEL
MELT (Ren Loren Britton & Isabel Paehr) - THE STICKY MIND(S)
●, pantea and others