At the Biocultural Borderland: The Unfolding of Multispecies Encounters in Latin American Bioart

Autors/ores

Paraules clau:

bioart, multispecies, biocultural borderland, Allan Jeffs, Luciana Paoletti

Resum

L’objectiu d’aquest article és analitzar dos casos de bioart des de la perspectiva post-humanista de les trobades multiespècies: per una banda, la instal·lació d’Allan Jeffs, Ex+sistencia, i, per l’altra, les fotografies de Luciana Paoletti, Retratos. Segons Mitchell (2010), el bioart articula procediments artístics i científics per a produir obres híbrides que exploren un concepte o que busquen involucrar l’espectador en procediments biotecnològics per promoure el debat sobre la problemàtica de la tecnologia. A partir d’aquest marc teòric, estudio com el bioart experimenta amb microorganismes vius que es troben en cossos humans i mitjans visuals a fi d’explorar la convivència d’éssers humans i bactèries als nostres mateixos cossos, deconstruint així les idees dominants sobre la naturalesa humana i el cos humà.

Biografia de l'autor/a

Azucena Castro, University of Stockholm

I am a PhD student at the Department of Romance Studies and Classics at the University of Stockholm. I hold a Masterʼs degree in media-culture-literature with orientation in Spanish from the University of Lund and a Bachelorʼs degree as well as a Teaching degree in English and English literature from Universidad de Córdoba, Argentina. In my ongoing doctoral dissertation, I examine the portrayal of devastated landscapes of the Anthropocene in a corpus of contemporary long poems from Latin American writers. In my research I focus on the affective responses to environmental deterioration, the assemblages between human, nonhuman, organic and nonorganic and the articulations life/matter from a post-natural perspective.

I have coauthored together with associate professor Leticia Gómez (University of Växjö) the article entitled “Cinematic Birds, Jungles and Forests: The Margins of the Human in the Environmental Crisis in Two Contemporary Movies”, which is in the peer-review process of journal specialized in ecocriticism. The article analyses two contemporary fictional films exploring the complex interactions between the human and the non-human worlds, in this case the animal world and the natural landscape, in the context of the environmental crisis in Latin America. Besides, together with Leticia Gómez and senior lecturer Anna Forné (University of Gothenburg) I have organized the panel entitled “Ecocritical Readings of Latin American Culture” for the Nordic Latin American Research Network (NOLAN) conference held in Olso on the 24th and 25th of October, 2018. Our panel addressed issues related to environmentalism, post-humanism, multispecies narratives, toxicity and pollution, among others, in a variety of Latin American artistic and literary expressions.

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2019-07-31

Com citar

Castro, A. (2019). At the Biocultural Borderland: The Unfolding of Multispecies Encounters in Latin American Bioart. 452ºF. Revista De Teoria De La Literatura I Literatura Comparada, (21), 22–34. Retrieved from https://revistes.ub.edu/index.php/452f/article/view/27716