Argentina: From Mainstream Bioart to Situated Bioart
LUCÍA STUBRIN
Bioart emerged in the 1990s and its artists generate a critical debate about biotechnology and life processes. This piece provides an overview of the bioart scene in Argentina.
Congo: Indigenous Ecologies Through Walking
ALICE VITTORIA
Walking occupies the everyday life of the Bayaka. It is a prerequisite for their well-being and one of the main sources of both cultural continuity and innovation. Forest walking is also an initiation into Bayaka relational ecology
Brazil: Those Who Bathe Within the Anthropocene
MARIA PAULA PRATES
Mbyá-Guarani Indigenous women’s children are ever more likely to be born in hospitals and thus without the support of ambojau va’e (‘those who bathe’). What does this mean for the women’s reproductive and sexual health?
Chile: Pewenche Ecology
ROBERT PETITPAS
Delving into the Pewenche ecology of the pewen tree, this piece reflects on the problems and injustices of a colonial way of inhabiting the world and its related conservation approaches.
Venezuela: Early Solar Materialism
GIANFRANCO SELGAS
The period between 1890 to 1980 marked Venezuela’s insertion into the vortex of oil extraction. But the political and cultural discourses built around oil rendered invisible other cultures nurtured around the extraction of nature.