Ecofeminisms: Practices of Survivance Series
Macarena Gómez-Barris
- Price
- $12*
- Genre
- Talks
- Season
- Winter/Spring 2025
- DATE
- FEB 26
- TIME
- WED, 7 PM
* Discounts available for REDCAT members, students & the CalArts faculty and staff
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About
Macarena Gómez-Barris, author of The Extractive Zone: Social Ecologies and Decolonial Perspectives, inaugurates the Ecofeminisms: Practices of Survivance series, in conversation with writer and faculty of Critical Studies Janet Sarbanes and Daniela Lieja Quintanar. Presented by CalArts MA Program in Aesthetics and Politics, the series explores feminist intersections with ecopolitical issues, such as extractivism, Indigenous sovereignty, colonialism, war, and multispecies relations. Each installment engages with leading-edge feminist thought on survival and resistance in this time of climate emergency.
We have no time for patience. The oceans and solid ground are one and the same. We are taught that these are separate, but this is one plane of existence that feeds all life.
—
Macarena Gómez-Barris, Artists-in-Presidents: Transmissions to Power
about the artist
Macarena Gómez-Barris is a writer and scholar with a focus on the decolonial environmental humanities, authoritarianism and extractivism, queer Latinx epistemes, media environments, racial ecologies, cultural theory, and artistic practice.
She is author of four books, including The Extractive Zone: Social Ecologies and Decolonial Perspectives (Duke University Press, 2017), which examines five scenes of ruinous extractive capitalism, and Beyond the Pink Tide: Art and Political Undercurrents in the Américas (UC Press 2018), a text of critical hope about the role of submerged art and solidarities in troubled times. She is also author of Where Memory Dwells: Culture and State Violence in Chile (2009), and co-editor with Herman Gray of Towards a Sociology of a Trace (2010). She is series editor with Diana Taylor of Dissident Acts at Duke University Press.
Her forthcoming book is At the Sea’s Edge (Duke University Press), which considers colonial oceanic transits and the generative space between land and sea. She is on the Social Text Collective, and serves as co-Director of the Queer Aqui Project at Columbia University, as well as on the Executive Editor Board of GLQ. She received the Pratt Institute Research Recognition Award (2021–2022) and the University of California, Santa Cruz Distinguished Alumni Award (2021–2022). She is the author of dozens of essays and curatorial events. She was founder and director of Global South Center, NYC. She is currently organizing a new series called Writing Media Now hosted by the Department of Modern Culture and Media.
