Ecological approaches to art requires linking relationally, considering local practices in terms of their implications elsewhere, and vice versa; and taking into account the interconnections between beings, places, and materials. By drawing on theoretical texts and organizing visits and guest lectures, the seminar explores the work of artists who, through the processes, representations, and relationships they create and engage with, shape unique relationships with the world: sensory regimes, distinct economies, specific materials, and modes of production, presentation, and transmission.
L’écologie des pratiques, pratiques écologiques
La réflexion transnationale sur les pratiques écologiques exige d'articuler le local et le global, de relier les actions d'ici à leurs implications ailleurs et vice-versa. Cela exige de prendre en compte les interconnexions des êtres, des lieux et des matériaux dans leurs multiples intradépendances. Le séminaire s'appuie sur des textes théoriques et des œuvres d'art choisies pour discuter des procédures artistiques qui façonnent des relations particulières au monde : en utilisant des matériaux et des modes de fabrication, de présentation et de transmission spécifiques, en mettant en place une éthique relationnelle et des modes d'attention, les artistes établissent des régimes sensibles, s'engagent dans des relations responsables, et transforment la matière, les lieux et les modes d'existence. Plusieurs sessions seront consacrées à la méthodologie de l'écriture. Des intervenantes et des visites d'expositions ponctueront le semestre.
- Enseignant éditeur: Arndt Lotte
Master 1 Seminary, GHCA, Histoire de l’art
Paris 1 Panthéon Sorbonne 2025 (semestre 5)
Lecturer: Lotte Arndt : lotte.arndt@univ-Paris1.fr
Room : Demargne, groundfloor, INHA
Fridays, 17-18.45 pm
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1. 25 Sep 2026
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Introduction and presentations Materialist, implicated and transformative practices Morning (optional): 9-11 h – Renaming a gallery? Autumn School, DU, salle Vasari. Evening (optional) : Le Bal des Ogresses, Institut des Cultures d’Islam, commissariat : Sonia Recasens, Vernissage. https://www.institut-cultures-islam.org/expositions/le-bal-des-ogresses/
Donna Haraway, “Situated Knowledges: The Science Question in Feminism and the Privilege of Partial Perspective”, Feminist Studies, Vol. 14, No. 3 (Autumn, 1988), pp. 575-599, http://www.jstor.org/stable/3178066
Eve Tuck, & K. Wayne Yang (2014). “R-Words: Refusing Research”. In D. Paris, & M. T. Winn (Eds.), Humanizing Research: Decolonizing Qualitative Inquiry with Youth and Communities (pp. 223-248). SAGE Publications, Inc. https://doi.org/10.4135/9781544329611.n12 |
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2. 2 Oct. Art in the petrole age |
Susanne Witzgall, “Means of Power and Toxic Protagonist: Petroleum as Subject and Material in Contemporary Art”, in: Andreas Beitin, Alexander Klose, Benjamin Steininger (eds.), Oil. Beauty and Horror in the Petrol Age, Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther und Franz Koenig, 2022, pp. 108-140.
Crude, Jameel Art Center, 2019, https://jameelartscentre.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/Crude-English-Catalogue.pdf Artists: Romuald Hazoumé Monira Al-Qadiri Ursula Biemann
Other mentioned artists: Taryn Simon Maha Mustafa Michael Hirschbichler Noriyuki Haraguchi, Horizonal & Vertical Bureau d’études George Osodi….
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3. 9 Oct Exposures: Art in the Atomic Age 1 - |
Siobhan Angus, Camera Geologica. An elemental history of photography, Durham: Duke University Press, 2024. (Chapter: Uranium and photography beyond vision, p. 164-196).
Sandra Lahire. Overexposed, like an X-Ray, Exhibition Booklet https://www.betonsalon.net/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/bs-sandra-lahire-livret-de-salle-cg-eng-1.pdf
(additional: Jussi Parikka, New Materialism as Media Theory: Medianatures and Dirty Matter, Communication and Critical/Cultural Studies, Vol. 9, No. 1, March 2012, pp. 95-100.)
Artists: Susanne Kriemann Susan Schuppli Sandra Lahire (the four anti-nuclear films: Uranium Hex, Plutonium Blond, Serpent River, Terminals) Ana Vaz (Atomic Garden ; Hanabi, 2026) Exhibition: Picturing the Invisible, with Takashi Arai, Rebecca Bathory, Thom Davies, Masamichi Kagaya, Satoshi Mori, Yoi Kawakubo, Giles Price and Lieko Shiga, organized by: Dr. Makoto Takahashi https://picturing-the-invisible.art/ https://thebulletin.org/2023/03/picturing-the-invisible-legacies-of-fukushima-in-art/
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4. 16 Oct Interventions: Art in the Atomic Age 2 |
N.A.J. Taylor: “The Antipodean Stance of Pam Debenham’s 1980s Screenprints”, in: Toxic Immanence: Decolonizing Nuclear Legacies and Futures, edited by Livia Monnet, Montreal: McGill-Queen's University Press, 2022, pp. 309-331.
Samia Henni, Performing Colonial Toxicity, Framer Framed, Amsterdam, 2024, https://framerframed.nl/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/www_EN_Performing-Colonial-Toxicity.pdf
Alison Fields, “Food Cultivation as Artistic Activism after Nuclear Disaster”, in: Elyssa Faison and Alison Fields (eds), Resisting the Nuclear : art and activism across the Pacific, University of Washington Press, 2024, pp. 281-299.
Samia Henni Pam Debenham Ei and Tomoo Arakawa Will Wilson
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5. 23 Oct Witnessing rare earth extraction in Myanmar |
GUEST : AUNG Kam-Seng (Li li k.s.a.) tbc |
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Holidays |
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6. 6 Nov Reclaiming Land - Feeding, Planting, Transmitting
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Shela Sheikh: ‘Planting Seeds/The Fires of War’: The Geopolitics of Seed Saving in Jumana Manna’s ‘Wild Relatives’ Third Text, Volume 32, 2018Issue 2–3: ‘The Wretched Earth: Botanical Conflicts and Artistic Interventions’, guest editors Ros Gray and Shela Sheikh, 200–229. Jumana Manna (Wild Relatives, Foragers…) Vivien Sansoun Marwa Arsanios (Who is afraid of ideology ?)
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7. 13 Nov Guest Speaker |
Lilian Haberer (KHM Cologne, University of Media Arts, Cologne) |
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8. 20 Nov Visualizing the Anthropocene – Indigenous critique and practice
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Zoe Todd: “Indigenizing the Anthropocene », in Davis/Turpin: Art in the Anthropocene. Encounters Among Aesthetics, Politics, Environments and Epistemologies 2015, https://openhumanitiespress.org/books/download/Davis-Turpin_2015_Art-in-the-Anthropocene.pdf (pp 241 - 254).
Susy J. Zepeda, “Queer Xicana Indígena cultural production: Remembering through oral and visual storytelling”, in : Decolonization: Indigeneity, Education & Society, Vol. 3, No. 1, 2014, pp. 119-141. https://jps.library.utoronto.ca/index.php/des/article/view/20644/17322
Artists: Rebecca Belmore Kent Monkman Julie Gough
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9. 27 Nov Ecofeminist practices in Abya Yala |
Textes : Macarena Gomis Barris, The Extractive Zone, Duke University Press, 2017. Chapter 4 : A Fish-Eye Episteme: Seeing Below a River’s Colonisation, pp. 91-110.
Embodying Queer, Feminist and Indigenous Resistance in Bolivia
Sofia Acosta Varea, Kairos, 19, June 2020,
Artists : Mujeres Creando (Danitza Luna), Movimiento Maricas Bolivia, Calle: Bienal del Performance + Alejandra Del Carpio, and Germinal, Sofia Acosta Varea, Carolina Caycedo, Daniela Ortiz |
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10. 4 Dec Master Methodology
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Interviews Archives Work analysis Theory |
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11. 11 Dec
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NO CLASS |
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12. 18 Dec Closing Session
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Grading
Active participation
Preparation with a group of students of one session
