Reading workshop “Ecopolitics / Ecopoetics”

On 28 April at 6 pm, as part of its informal education programme, the Evening School, the Latvian Centre for Contemporary Art invites you to the reading workshop “Ecopolitics / Ecopoetics”.

The workshop will take place online. Link to the meeting: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/88671611969?pwd=NFVsY2pBamhHc0szakFKeWNoOFRBUT09. Meeting ID: 886 7161 1969
Password: 953989
To participate, please download Zoom app (https://zoom.us)


The current global pandemic means that we are facing not only a medical, social and economic emergency but also an environmental and ecological crisis. Human’s impact on the Earth’s ecosystem has created dramatic climate change and cataclysms, as well as other challenges that call us to seek alternative models of contemporary reality. These models would be based on new perspectives, ethics and forms of responsibility, and would form new relationships, not only between people but also between living and non-living things, between nature and culture and between society and the environment. These new perspectives are being analysed by scientists, philosophers, artists and many others, but the most inspiring search lies in an intersectional approach that brings together diverse fields, and prioritises transnational and anticapitalist solidarity, where local and global thinking and acting are simultaneous.

Texts to be discussed:

•    Astrida Neimanis, “Hydrofeminism: Or, On Becoming a Body of Water”. In Undutiful Daughters: Mobilizing Future Concepts, Bodies and Subjectivities in Feminist Thought and Practice. Eds. Henriette Gunkel, Chrysanthi Nigianni and Fanny Söderbäck. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2012, pp. 85–99.

•    Nataša Petrešin-Bachelez, “For Slow institutions”. E-flux Journal #85, October 2017.
https://www.e-flux.com/journal/85/155520/for-slow-institutions/

To receive the texts, please email to: ieva.ast@gmail.com.

The Latvian Center for Contemporary Art within its programme, the Evening School continues reading workshops or non-academic and informal discussions about seminal texts, devoted to current issues of contemporary art and culture as well as exploration of the recent past. The programme is curated by Ieva Astahovska. The project is supported by the State Culture Capital Foundation.