What role could philosophy play to the challenges posed by climate change, resource depletion and the diverse political and cultural crises our societies face in the 21st Century? How to identify the toxic effects of the logic of advance capitalism and neoliberal globalization in a cognitive, social and structural level? What kind of narratives, cartographies and figurations account for the fractures and contradictions of our times? How to reinvent subjectivity when trying to make it compatible with mutating universes of value? How can art, cultural becomings and institutional practice be thought in terms of environmental sustainability in the postnatural and posthuman, technologically-mediated era of the Anthropocene?

The II Symposium Mutating ecologies in contemporary art seeks to deepen on the value and the effectiveness of the philosophical tradition of vital materialism as a non-dualist model of political ecology that enables ways to imagine alternative forms of relation and political action. We will work departing from the elements that define its ethical-political project: the situated knowledge, the historicity of the body, and the question of the affects. This model of thought nourish current artistic imagination, modulating compounds made of forces and materials imbuing proposals that provide new ways of understanding, interrogating and transforming our relation with the planet and all living entities. They do so by visual, discursive and sensual strategies, experimenting with disciplinary confinements and generating new posthuman ethics and new posthuman politics.

The Symposium will be articulated around the opening talk of Dr. Anne Sauvagnargues (Université Paris Ouest-Nanterre La Defénse), which will be followed by communications previously selected through a call for papers. Anne Sauvagnargues is Professor of Philosophy in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Paris Ouest Nanterre La Défense. A specialist in aesthetics and the philosophy of Gilles Deleuze, she co-directs the collection 'Lignes d’art' with Fabienne Brugère for Presses Universitaires de France. She is the author of numerous works, including Deleuze and Art (Bloomsbury 2013), Artmachines: Deleuze, Guattari, Simondon (Edinburgh University Press 2016), and Deleuze. L’empirisme transcendental (Presses universitaires de France 2008, forthcoming with Edinburgh University Press).

PROGRAM

8:30 - 9
Registration

9 - 9:30
Welcome: Anna Maria Guasch (Universitat de Barcelona)
Introduction: Christian Alonso (Universitat de Barcelona)

9:30 – 10:30
Keynote talk:
Ecology of Images, Anne Sauvagnargues
(Université Paris Ouest-Nanterre La Defénse)

Panel 1
11:30 - 13:30

Modulating Matters: Simondon, Deleuze and Guattari, Daniela Voss (Deakin University, Melbourne)

Time Spirals in the Anthropocene: an artistic approach to environmental data visualization, Quelic Berga / Javier Melenchón / Pau Alsina
(Universitat Oberta de Catalunya)

Often people ask how birds are affected by the air.
Hanna Husberg (Academy of Fine Arts Vienna)

Uter Project. Carles Garcia O'Dowd

PANEL 2
15 – 16:30

Anomalous touch. On sym_poiesis and responsibility.
Laura Benítez (EINA, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona)

Our plastic condition. Conscious resiliencies of the inside.
Beatriz Regueira (Universitat de Barcelona)

Oryza Collection. Hybrid fields of knowledge between art and agriculture.
Chiara Sgaramella (Universitat Politècnica de València)

Grafting. Notes on human and non-human neighbourhoods in the rural environment. Alfredo Puente (Fundación Cerezales Antonino y Cinia)

PANEL 3
17 – 18:30

Solarism | Animism IIIIII IIIIIII IIIIII IIII Lynch Tagaq
Radek Przedpełski (Trinity College, Dublin)

Affective Nature or when desire matters.
Begonya Saez Tajafuerce (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona)

Community Learning Lab (Laboratori d’Aprenentatge Comunitari) Claudia Villazón & Lukas Masewicz

Drones and Drums. Resistance, the final frontier.
Ignacio Acosta (University of Brighton)

PANEL 4
18:30 – 20

Cartographing heterogenesis with Guattari,
Jean-Sébastien Laberge (Université d'Ottawa)

Borders in the Beyond: have you ever seen yourself from the other side of the wall? Sergi Selvas

Conversation Between Species,
Caterina Almirall / Quim Packard

Panel respondent: Julia Ramírez Blanco

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Limited seats. Attendance is free of charge but registration is required via:
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSeElnMxnV7TiFFjhTZhspwi44pqHmWLSzpKh25-PyNcf3sR0A/viewform?usp=sf_link
Production: Research Group AGI (Art, Globalization, Inteculturality), Universitat de Barcelona
Coordinator and moderator: Christian Alonso, Universitat de Barcelona
Special guest speaker: Dr. Anne Sauvagnagues (Université Paris Ouest-Nanterre La Defénse)
Language: English. Simultaneous translation service will be not provided
In partnership with: MACBA Museu d'Art Contemporani de Barcelona