Moving Images and Ecologies of Extractive Violence: A Hybrid EBL Seminar

It is our great pleasure to invite you all to join us for The Eco- and Bioart Lab Hybrid Seminar “Moving Images and Ecologies of Extractive Violence” with speaker Dr Salomé Lopes Coelho (Utrecht University, NL) and respondent Dr mirko nikolić (Södertörn University, SE).

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Abstract:

Lithium permeates human and planetary energies, from regulating moods to powering the batteries of a so-called green future, embodying stories of promise while remaining anchored in continuous extractive violences that deplete human and more-than-human worlds. This presentation focuses on the affordances of moving image practices across the ecologies of this extractive violence, with an attention to lithium, through film curatorial work, image-making and analysis -from experimental documentaries and investigative cinema to science communication films. I ask how moving images articulate the material, temporal, and affective rhythms of lithium extraction, and how they trace connections to other histories of violence, including colonialism and imperialism. I also consider how they intervene in these ecologies of violence, enacting temporalities, relations, and forms of life that contest extraction while opening aesthetic and political terrains for imagining post-extractivist worlds.

The seminar forms part of the CRITICAL ECOLOGIES event series, organised as part of the ECO-GRIEF research project, funded by FORMAS: A Swedish Research Council for Sustainable Development.

Image included in the poster: I Mourn for Mountains, 2023, Paula König.