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SpeculationsEnvironmental Sensualities
and EcoPublics
Thomas Shevory and Patricia Zimmermann,Codirectors,Finger Lakes Environmental Film Festival
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How
is this piece
environmental?
1.
Environmental and ecological thinking
requires reimagining and reconceptualizing
the environment.
How
is this piece
environmental?
2.
Thinking differently about the environment and sustainability
necessitates immersion within interconnected, fluid, global contexts.
It means redefining the environmental
beyond the confining materialities of land, sea and air.
How
is this piece
environmental?
3.
Thinking differently about the environment and sustainability
suggests considering transnational, intersecting, embodied, heterogeneous,
social and political practices.
How
is this piece
environmental?
4.
Thinking differently about the environment and sustainability
suggests the need to catapult
across and beyond borders, genres, formats, art forms,
nations, ethnicities, nature.
How
is this piece
environmental?
5.
Sustainable development and the environmentflow
as collaborative,
interdependent, and
active ecosystems.
How
is this piece
environmental?
6.
Nature is often privileged as a pastoral fantasy,
an edenic ideal, a romanticized projection of desire
into the uncontaminated and uncontrolled, the unassailable domain of science.
How
is this piece
environmental?
7.
Nature is often represented
as neutral and is oversimplified;
as a result, questions of power are repressed.
How
is this piece
environmental?
8.
Nature is often confined,
safe, tame,
remote, ineffable,
overpowering. It is often figured in reductionist terms.
How
is this piece
environmental?
9.
False dichotomies are established
between the human and the natural, the social and the scientific,
the argumentative and the empirical, the United States and the globe.
How
is this piece
environmental?
10.
An ecological/environmental way of thinking entails
constantly moving vectors of equality, freedom,
social justice, aesthetic innovation,
and access to health care, clean water, housing
How
is this piece
environmental?
11.Environments and ecologies
signify a complicated nexus of
the social, political,
aesthetic, technological,
economic, physical,
and natural.
How
is this piece
environmental?
12.
An ecological way of thinking
demands tracing
these complex interactions in order
to understand them—and act on them.
How
is this piece
environmental?
13.
Ecology means
understanding how
things, people, and ideas are interconnected.
How
is this piece
environmental?
14.
Ecology/environment means
considering how the senses and communities
operate within larger
social, political, aesthetic and biological matrices.
How
is this piece
environmental?
15.
The concept of ecology and the environmental
are deeply subversive because they dislodge
categories that are presumed to be stable.Ecological and environmental thinking
mines and explores the conflicts and intersections
between the human and the natural.
How
is this piece
environmental?
16.
UNESCO’s initiative on sustainable development has redefined and expanded
environmental issues to explore
the international interconnection between
war, disease, health, genocide, the land, water, air, food, education, technology, cultural
heritage and diversity.
How
is this piece
environmental?
17.
Environmental sensualities means
reconnecting to
more collective and emancipated forms for the creation
of a public commons
How
is this piece
environmental?
18.
Environmental sensualities imagines
locations differently.
They are composed with many intersecting layers.
They constantly move. They are relational, material, and collaborative.
How
is this piece
environmental?
19.
Environments constitute
in-between zones where we actively
manipulate, engage with,
and negotiate external forces.
How
is this piece
environmental?
20.
In the liminal zones between bodies
as active, sensing agents and the environment and the natural world
as complex systems in flux, openings emerge.
These pathways invent new aesthetic, social, biological, and political spaces through seeing, hearing, touching and
tasting.
How
is this piece
environmental?
21.
Rather than hierarchies, environmental sensualities
suggests networks, layers, clusters—
horizontal, continually forming
relationships.
How
is this piece
environmental?
22.
Environments are
systems comprising
incessant interactions, changes, fluidities,
movements, transversals.
How
is this piece
environmental?
23.
Environments are only sustainable
if they are
heterogeneous, multiple, complex and sensual.
How
is this piece
environmental?
24.
Disturbances and debates can relocate us
into a new kind of interstitial imaginary zone which can open up
the possibility of joining together to build
an energized and contentious public commons.
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is this piece
environmental?
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