Ecofeminisms: Practices of Survivance Series
Salar Mameni
- Price
- $12*
- Genre
- Talks
- Season
- Winter/Spring 2025
- DATE
- MAR 19
- TIME
- WED, 7 PM
* Discounts available for REDCAT members, students & the CalArts faculty and staff
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About
Salar Mameni, author of Terracene: A Crude Aesthetics, addresses the role of militarism in the ecological crises we currently face. Presented by CalArts MA Program in Aesthetics and Politics, this speaker series explores feminist intersections with ecopolitical issues such as extractivism, Indigenous sovereignty, colonialism, war, and multispecies relations. Each installment presents leading-edge feminist thought on survival and resistance in this time of climate emergency.
I believe that the very shift of attention to the earth’s many potentialities can also allow for conceptualizing futures out of toxic wastelands.
—
Salar Mameni, UC Berkeley Social Science Matrix
about the artist
Salar Mameni is the author of Terracene: A Crude Aesthetics (Duke, 2023) and Assistant Professor at the University of California, Berkeley. He is an art historian with expertise in artistic practices in the contemporary Arab/Muslim world with a focus on ecological thought. Mameni’s writings have appeared in the journals Catalyst, Ramus, Signs, Qui Parle, Women and Performance, Al-Raida, and Resilience, among others. He has also written for catalogs of exhibitions in Pakistan, Dubai, Sharjah, and Istanbul.
