CONTEXTUALISATION- Lecture 2
Bodies of water - 18.10

- Body in relation to the art
 -contemporary art + environmental thought
 -rethinking æsthetics- æsthetics as experience, weather, atmosphere. WEATHER AS EXPERIENCE
- pressing ecological questions_ re-imagine embodiment from the perspectives of bodily fluids and water: 
        -challenges our definitions
        -our bodies our relational to our surroundings
        therefore inseperable from pressing ecological questions
-posthuman feminist phenomenology= bodies are part of natural world and not separated from/privileged above nature
-anthropocentrism= humans are above/privileging themselves above nature and everything else, anthropocene also does this. 
- WE HAVE NEVER BEEN ONLY HUMAN - Bruno Latour (LINK TO WHAT I WAS THINKING OF, THAT WE NEED TO LEARN/RE-LEARN PAST CRAFTS AND TIME TO DO THINGS) 
- new revival of body and relational art to art in the 60s - land art ? 
- Body + embodiment is central to Merleau-Ponty’s account of perception
- Phenomenology = philosophy of experience. structure of (æsthetic) experience: imagination, situatedness, relation to other people (BUT THIS IS ONLY FROM HUMAN BODIES PERSPECTIVE)
- Ecology (Christina Sharpe) = the branch of biology that deals with the relations of organisms to one another + to their physical surroundings, the political movement that seeks to protect the environment, espeically from pollution. 
- rhyzomatics of Gilles Deleuze - agency + subjectivity evolves in relation to one another. We are not static beings we are always in relation to another. 
- anti-essentialism + feminist theory 
- ecriture feminine
- biology essentialism - we’re born with the gender we’re assigned (assigned by whom, by our sex?)
- nature-cultures (Haraway)
- where does earth belong to/who owns earth’s natural resources?
- the water crisis as a social crisis (how do you define social)
- in my writing, use the definition to suit my point. 
- Astrida Neimanis: water is not simply something ‘out there’, but also a commodity, backdrop, resource, etc... all related, never separate from our reality. 
- more curious about our politics of location: where is my body? when is it? why is it? thanks to what and whom? 
- nature-culture= bodies are always biological and cultural (Haraway) 
- paying attention to terms: local/global, now/then, mine/theirs, etc... 
- How do we re-think relations b/w humans and animals, earth and humans, non-humans and humans, etc... THROUGH STORIES
-Carolina Caycedo - Be damned . the work is installed with the people into the gallery
    - ‘Connecting’ artist- conversations with people, shaman, etc... about the river, privatization of the river, links to non-human relations to rivers, etc... (All encompassing-ness of everything related to the river in relation to the topic- privatization of river (link to guardian of the forest? what’s the ‘topic’ here))


see full transcript of notes here.


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