{"product_id":"and-if-i-devoted-my-life-to-one-of-its-feathers-aesthetic-responses-to-extraction-accumulation-and-dispossession-paperback","title":"And If I Devoted My Life to One of Its Feathers?: Aesthetic Responses to Extraction, Accumulation, and Dispossession - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eMiguel A. Lopez\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor), \u003cb\u003eWhat How \u0026amp; for Whom\/Whw\u003c\/b\u003e (Foreword by), \u003cb\u003eChristophe Slagmuylder\u003c\/b\u003e (Foreword by)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAn exploration of the realities of environmental and social catastrophe through art practices.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"And if I devoted my life to one of its feathers?\" wrote the Chilean poet, artist, and feminist activist Cecilia Vicuña in the early 1970s. Vicuña countered anthropocentric and hetero-patriarchal urges with healing and appreciation, reviving the aesthetic and spiritual bonds between human and more-than-human entities and worlds. Revolving around this vision of interconnectivity, this book, which accompanies an exhibition of the same name at Kunsthalle Wien, seeks to create a collective dialogue around unequal distribution of power, sovereignty, and social and ecological justice. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe exhibited works and written contributions reflect on the rationale of exploitation, the fast-paced mining of raw materials, and environmental destruction as a colonial legacy. They deconstruct Western anthropocentric models and enduring colonial and racist discourses, trace the stories of indigenous struggles for collective survival, and celebrate encounters defined by solidarity in their resistance to capitalist extraction, misogyny, imperialist violence, and dispossession. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThis publication includes a folded A2 poster: SPIT! (Sodomites, Perverts, Inverts Together! \/ Carlos Maria Romero, Carlos Motta \u0026amp; John Arthur Peetz), We The Enemy (poster), 2017. Courtesy the artists.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eMiguel A. López is a writer and curator. He worked as chief curator, and later co-director at TEOR\/ética (Costa Rica) from 2015 to 2020. In his practice, he focuses on the role of art in politics and public life, collaborative dynamics, and queer and feminist rewritings of history.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 256\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.79 x 9.37 x 6.69 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e April 25, 2023\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51766186606880,"sku":"9783956796371","price":20.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/8b3e47b55b7f86e48affebcfa9799e06.webp?v=1780287254","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/and-if-i-devoted-my-life-to-one-of-its-feathers-aesthetic-responses-to-extraction-accumulation-and-dispossession-paperback","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}