Symbolic funerals for non-human species that died during the 2019 fires. This was a collective action with a biodegradable intervention, resulting from a workshop led by Mendez. Booklets and video.
As part of the first artistic and cultural cycle of the Urban Anthropocene, I organized a call for applications for the creation of a collective artwork from four work meetings. The year 2019 was marked by fire emergencies in response to the concept of Plantacionoceno. The objective of this burning was to generate an exploitable territory for the agriculture and livestock industry.
With Laura Borsellino, Laura Palavecino, Romina Orazi, Nahuel Martínez, Bruno del Giudice, Lucila Mazzacaro, Julie Le Gall, Juan Carlos Urrutia, Miguel Martínez, Alejandra Potocko, Carolina Herman, Gabriela Messutti, Candela Sotos and Daniel Duhault, we conceived a funeral tribute in honor of the incinerated victims in the Amazon, Australia, Argentina, the United States, Belgian Congo, Indonesia, and countless other places. By avoiding an anthropocentric axis, we tried to create for and with the non-human inhabitants of the Carlos Thays Botanical Garden. I present here some of the results, even though I know that the experience is not reproducible.
Video documentation of the workshop and exchanges. Created by Candela Sotos and Bruno del Giudicce.
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This work was collective and ephemeral. We could not have realised it without the collaboration of the non-human inhabitants and visitors of the Botanical Garden, Gabriela Benito (curator of the garden), the French Institute of Argentina, and the Urban School of Lyon.