Art & environment / ecology

Artists, designers and researchers investigate the "becoming object" of the Earth, in the face of the techno-scientific vision and geo-engineering projects that tend to turn our planet into a design object.

Artists, designers and researchers investigate the "becoming object" of the Earth, in the face of the techno-scientific vision and geo-engineering projects that tend to turn our planet into a design object.

Exhibition catalogue of filmmaker, visual artist, and writer Pedro Neves Marques's solo project "Vampires in Space" at the Portuguese Pavilion, 59th International Art Exhibition – La Biennale di Venezia 2022.

A musical work born of residencies for two musicians and a dancer in three natural parks in France, tuned to these three geographies as open-air studios, in dialogue with the mineral, plant and animal environment.

An exploration of the various paths of ecodesign, from material environments to our imaginations, from concern for uses to new narratives.

Matching expansive ambience with environmental sound, Chihei Hatakeyama's new album continues Field Records' exploration of Japan and the Netherland's shared approach to water management.

Artists, designers and researchers investigate the "becoming object" of the Earth, in the face of the techno-scientific vision and geo-engineering projects that tend to turn our planet into a design object (also available in English).

This publication invites us on a journey to decipher the hidden predatory logic within the mechanisms of gold mining exploitation and the resulting socio-ecological devastation in the Guayana and Venezuela's Amazon regions.

A journey through the work of Daniel Steegmann Mangrané over 25 years (artist's book).

Seven tangible prototypes that respond to our current planetary moment, enabling new ways of envisioning and inhabiting the world (a scientific and artistic collaboration turned to a catalyst for experimentation, shaping sustainable, and collective futures that combine science, technology, and the arts in a transdisciplinary and collaborative approach).

New monograph.

This artist's book explores the diverse reference system of forms and materials, plants, animals and other subjects out of which Claudia Comte develops her biomorphic sculptures.

New monograph, focused on the last years of work of the duo around the animal, landscape and ecological issues that cross it.

Monograph surveying more than ten years of the Canadian visual and performance artist's career, whose engaged practice addresses social and environmental issues, with two essays by Chantal Pontbriand and Ayelet D. Aldouby.

Inter #141 invites to approach degrowth as a paradigm of a possible way out of the planetary crisis, and to imagine new ways of living in the world.

A novel of anticipation anchored in queer ecologies, a frenetic odyssey interwoven with songs and short poems, mixing the genres of feminist science fiction, young adult literature, space-opera and marvelous fable.

What architectural possibilities can emerge when we reimagine arid landscapes as spaces of abundance? (a collective book conceived as a travelogue that challenges preconceptions around aridity: the official publication of UAE's National Pavilion at Venise Biennale of Architecture).

A long-term project by the Italian artist and agroecologist on rethinking the relationship with the earth, both from the point of view of humans and plants.

New media theorist Wendy Hui Kyong Chun exposes her original conception of programming and code, alerts us to the racialization bias, homophily and eugenic tendencies that govern our interactions on platforms, and analyzes the need to call upon the humanities and social sciences in the development of algorithmic models for predicting the evolutions and impacts of climate change.

By taking a conversation between Etel Adnan and Simone Fattal as a point of departure and inspiration, this publication intends to collect interdisciplinary reflections around/about the Mediterraneans through art, oceanic thinking, science, and activism.

A collection of poetic, political and ecological stories to be told aloud, in which the natural elements (the melting ice, the volcanic eruption, the hole in the clouds, or the flood) are the heroes, approaching ecology through its sensitive manifestations.

An illustrated almanac on arts, science, and society, dedicated to the wise men and the fools.

A collective and transdisciplinary publication to address the question of the forms of the living in its scientific, philosophical, artistic and aesthetic dimension, engaging a systematic reflection on our relation to the living and to its forms, and on their theoretical and practical significance with regard to the current world.

A photographer-cum-explorer presents his stunning (both sublime and alarming) landscape images from around the world.

What comes after end-of-world narratives: visions of just futurity and multispecies flourishing.

Previously unreleased music by Otto Sidharta, pioneer of Indonesian electronic music, inspired by Indonesia's multifarious styles of traditional music.

An exploration of the realities of environmental and social catastrophe through art practices.

A collection of reflections by pioneering scientists, artists, and thinkers about the ocean environment, fusing art, science, and education, offering a diverse and interdisciplinary perspective on those threatened ecosystems and the crucial role they play in our adaption to climate change.

138 records of artist’s books, catalogues, posters, invitation cards and ephemera (with an essay by Jan Meissner).

The most accessible introduction to the life and work of James Lovelock (1919-2022), and a guide to address today's "polycrisis."

A transdisciplinary investigation and a choreographic performance, between Umeå and Oslo, about ecological grief, cultural panic, and a feeling of collapse.

The current ecological crisis brings about a new relational landscape: an unprecedented collapse of distances creates interspecies promiscuities and a crisis of the human scale. In Inclusions, Nicolas Bourriaud proposes that artists are the anthropologists of this new era.

The use of art and architecture to develop practical solutions to economic and ecological crises.

A new and expanded edition of the reference flora, the result of 20 years of studies and floristic surveys on a multitude of urban wastelands, allowing, through 600 photographs and 800 original drawings, to recognize and name some 300 silent plants that we come across every day: a methodical herbarium of the wastelands which constitutes a true guide to biodiversity, beautiful and playful, accessible and rigorous..

Faced with the ecological peril, what can design and archarchitecture itecture do but encourage and accompany modes and ways of living that maintain a renewed relationship with nature? Based on realizations and projects, Matali Crasset and David Bihanic share the writing of this book, seeking together, between testimony and analysis, to characterize a design of matrices.

Nicolas Bourriaud invites artists from all around the world to question the contemporaneity of the romantic concept of the sublime, at the age of the anthropocene.

Nicolas Bourriaud invites artists from all around the world to question the contemporaneity of the romantic concept of the sublime, at the age of the anthropocene.

Published in conjunction with the exhibition Uncombed, Unforeseen, Unconstrained, a Collateral Event of the 59th International Art Exhibition | La Biennale di Venezia, 2022, this book documents the deeply thoughtful responses of eleven international contemporary visual artists to the state of the world in the early twenty-first century.

The hypothesis of a genuine cultural logic of environmentalization, at the intersection of art, media and cultural studies as well as economic theory.

The hypothesis of a renewal of the world's habitability, questioning the links between ecofeminism and artistic practices, but also another relationship, more collaborative than separative, to the living world.

The first study devoted to the American ecological art movement.

The first in a series of publications emerging from the transoceanic platform Kal, Kal Rituals proposes queer and trans feminist ecologies, embodiments and mythmaking.

This manual provides the current state of knowledge on the functioning of nature in an urban environment: its ecology.