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Emilio Ambasz Fables
AIDS Art Action
Constructing the Environmental Imaginary
The American Garden in Nineteenth-Century Canton
Letters to My Friends: Indigenous Land as Monument
Being an academic, I am often more interested in ideas than in the visceral. The idea of what creates a visceral reaction, the how, the why, the what, and then what transpires, preoccupies my busy mind. My therapist prescribed returning to my body, in any way that I can. So, a monument really has to be something to grab my attention.
Three Case Studies in Ecological Protest
Stubborn Materialism: Stoppages, Blocks, and Piles
Making Time: Mildred Thompson’s Magnetic Fields
Heritage Algorithms and Other Letters to the Future
Liv Bugge: The Consequence of Touching Oil
“What is the consequence of touching oil—of coming to know it in an embodied sense? What gets destabilized when oil slips out of the category of the inhuman, even momentarily? To make an image with the body requires revaluation of the discursive function of touch. I propose that Bugge’s document of people touching oil and becoming aware of its aliveness, its animateness, awakens those people to the violent relationship humans have not only with oil, but also with the world beings that humans broadly consider inanimate.”