Slide show and references to accompany the talk ‘Eco feminist Art and Science Fiction’ for London Drawing Group. Feminist Lecture series. Oct 24th 2022.
List of slides.
1.London Drawing Group intro slide
2.Front cover of the Protect and Survive leaflet distributed to UK households. First published in 1980.
3 Protect and Survive page detail.
4.Protect and Survive page detail.
5.Protect and Survive page detail.
6. Still from THREADS a made for TV film by the BBC. 1984.
7.Still from THREADS a made for TV film by the BBC. 1984.
8. Sarah Conner in Terminator 2 - 1991
9. Sarah Conner in Terminator 2 - 1991
10.Yusof, Katherine. A Billion Black Anthropocenes or None. UP Press 2018.
11. Florida Floods - https://www.ndtv.com/world-news/viral-photo-shows-storm-proof-windows-that-did-not-shatter-during-hurricane-ian-3405566
12. SpaceX founder Elon Musk during a T-Mobile and SpaceX joint event on August 25, 2022 in Boca Chica Beach, Texas.Image credit Micheal Gonzales.
13. Mary Shelly, Frankenstein. original Cover.
14. Ursula K Le Guin published The Left Hand of Darkness which is considered to be a breakthrough for female writers in the genre- it included androgynous lead characters .1969
15. Joanna Russ, The Female Man 1975.
16.Dawn, the first novel in Octavia E Butler’s Xenogenesis trilogy (1987 – 1989).
17. Examples of Science Fiction sub genres, list.
18. Le Féminisme ou la Mort (1974)Françoise d'Eaubonne
19. Justyna Wybranowska describes the genre as ''make (ing)analysis of landscape and female embodiment, queer ecology and ecoterrorism''.
20. Shadow on the Hearth Judith Merill (1950).
21. Angela Carter's Heroes and Villains (1969).
22. Quote from: Vatoch, Douglas. Ecofeminist Science Fiction International Perspectives on Gender, Ecology, and Literature. Routledge 2021.
23. Cover of Becoming Undone Darwinian Reflections on Life, Politics, and Art Elizabeth Grosz 2011.
24. Image of a ‘Go bag’ or ‘Bug out bay’ Sourced from https///www.ballisticmag.com/vehicle-bug-out-bag/ (20.10.22).
25. THE CARRIER BAG THEORY OF FICTION By Ursula K. Le Guin https://ignota.org/products/the-carrier-bag-theory-of-fiction
26. From https://otherfutures.nl/uploads/documents/le-guin-the-carrier-bag-theory-of-fiction.pdf
27. Victoria Sin Image from https://www.whitechapelgallery.org/events/rising-infinite-sky/
28. Victoria Sin Image from https://www.nowness.asia/story/bce-sophia-al-maria-victoria-sin
29. Christian McKoy Image from https://www.instagram.com/p/B_-Z9VWjFdX/?igshid=trj15sqiway8 (accessed 10.10.22)
30. Christian McKoy Image from https://flaunt.com/content/a-qampa-with-christian-mckoy (accessed 11.10.22)
31.Screen shot from the Beyond gender Manifesto https://beyondgender.space/manifesto/ (accessed 9.10.22)
32. Screen shot from Beyond gender Manifesto https://beyondgender.space/manifesto/ (accessed 9.10.22)
33. Image from https://www.blackquantumfuturism.com (accessed 9.10.22)
34. Image of one of Ramellzee’s Time Stopper devices from https://www.artsy.net/artwork/rammellzee-time-stopper-1-1 More about Ramellzee https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2018/05/28/the-spectacular-personal-mythology-of-rammellzee
35. Image from Black Quantum Futurist —Temporal Disruptors performance Jun 13, 2019 https://schloss-post.com/temporal-disruptors/
36. Image from Black Quantum Futurist —Temporal Disruptors performance Jun 13, 2019 https://schloss-post.com/temporal-disruptors/
37. Image from Black Quantum Futurist —Temporal Disruptors performance Jun 13, 2019 https://schloss-post.com/temporal-disruptors/
38. Image from Black Quantum Futurist —Temporal Disruptors performance Jun 13, 2019 https://schloss-post.com/temporal-disruptors/
39. Cover image from Kindred, Octavia Butler 1979.
40. Still from The Eternal return Michelle Williams Gamaker 2018 http://www.michellewilliamsgamaker.com/the-eternal-return-2019.html Watch Michelle Williams Gamaker in Conversation with Jade Montserrt for AirSpace Gallery https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G_cVu5zN5KM&t=24s
41. Image from https://jademontserrat.com/2016/12/05/shadowing-josephine-revue/
42. Book available at https://shop.whitechapelgallery.org/products/documents-of-contemporary-art-science-fiction
43. Alondra Nelson The Social Life of DNA Race, Reparations, and Reconciliation After the Genome. Beacon Press 2018.
44. ''Afrofuturism is very much about finding safe spaces for black life'' she says Elizabeth C. Hamilton Afrofuturism and the Technologies of Survival//2017 African Arts (2017) 50 (4): 18–23.
45. Slide from https://laboriacuboniks.net/manifesto/xenofeminism-a-politics-for-alienation/
46. Slide from https://laboriacuboniks.net/manifesto/xenofeminism-a-politics-for-alienation/
47. Slide from https://laboriacuboniks.net/manifesto/xenofeminism-a-politics-for-alienation/ and watch film on this page http://arkbooks.dk/what-is-xenofeminism/
48. Ann Lislegaard ‘Oracles, Owls … Some Animals Never Sleep’ 2012—13, 3D animation still
49. Ann Lislegaard “Crystal World (after J. G. Ballard)” Image from https://ilikethisart.net/?p=18919 (accessed 10.10.22)
50. Film Still from Stalker Andrei Tarkovsky 1979. MOS Films.
51. Film Still from Stalker Andrei Tarkovsky 1979. MOS Films.
52. Roadside Picnic by Boris and Arkady Strugatsky,1971.
53. Film Still from Stalker Andrei Tarkovsky 1979. MOS Films.
54. Film Still from Stalker Andrei Tarkovsky 1979. MOS Films.
55. Film Still from Stalker Andrei Tarkovsky 1979. MOS Films.
56. Gudrun Filipska TERRIL WALK http://www.gudrunfilipska.com/work#/terrilwalk/
57. Gudrun Filipska TERRIL WALK http://www.gudrunfilipska.com/work#/terrilwalk/
58. Gudrun Filipska TERRIL WALK http://www.gudrunfilipska.com/work#/terrilwalk/
59. Rebecca Solnit, Savage Dreams https://www.ucpress.edu/book/9780520282285/savage-dreams
60. Image of Nevada Nuclear test from the Atomic Heritage Foundation.
61. Still from the film If I eat you, will we both still be OK? (Plant) http://www.rhonaeveclews.com
62. Still from the film If I eat you, will we both still be OK? (Plant) http://www.rhonaeveclews.com
63. Still from the film If I eat you, will we both still be OK? (Plant) Installation documentation footage http://www.rhonaeveclews.com
64. ME AT THE LITTLE MERMAID INTERVENTION, Rhona Eve Clews http://www.rhonaeveclews.com
65. ME AT THE LITTLE MERMAID INTERVENTION, Rhona Eve Clews http://www.rhonaeveclews.com
66. Heatwave 2020 Rhona Eve Clews http://www.rhonaeveclews.com
67. Heatwave 2020 Rhona Eve Clews http://www.rhonaeveclews.com
68. Film Still from Stalker Andrei Tarkovsky 1979. MOS Films.
69. Film Still from Stalker Andrei Tarkovsky 1979. MOS Films.
70. Image from Barbara Lounder’s Corona Walker project see more at https://www.livingmaps.org/barbara-lounder and https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/14688417.2022.2114520
71. Image from Barbara Lounder’s Corona Walker project see more at https://www.livingmaps.org/barbara-lounder and https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/14688417.2022.2114520
72. Image from Barbara Lounder’s Corona Walker project see more at https://www.livingmaps.org/barbara-lounder and https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/14688417.2022.2114520
73. Image from Barbara Lounder’s Corona Walker project see more at https://www.livingmaps.org/barbara-lounder and https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/14688417.2022.2114520
74. Image from Barbara Lounder’s Corona Walker project see more at https://www.livingmaps.org/barbara-lounder and https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/14688417.2022.2114520
75. Image from Barbara Lounder’s Corona Walker project see more at https://www.livingmaps.org/barbara-lounder and https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/14688417.2022.2114520
76. Film Still from Stalker Andrei Tarkovsky 1979. MOS Films. Stalker holding a bolt.
77. Stanisław Lem (1971) ‘Solaris’. First UK edition published by Faber and Faber.and first Russian edition.
78. Solaris, Andrei Tarkovsky Mosfilms 1972.
79. Solaris, Andrei Tarkovsky Mosfilms 1972.
80. Solaris, Andrei Tarkovsky Mosfilms 1972.
81. Solaris, Andrei Tarkovsky Mosfilms 1972.
82. Solaris, Andrei Tarkovsky Mosfilms 1972.
83. Solaris, Andrei Tarkovsky Mosfilms 1972.
84. Stalker film poster.
85. Screen shot from S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Shadow of Chernobyl. GSC Game World, Ukraine. More at https://store.steampowered.com/app/4500/STALKER_Shadow_of_Chernobyl/
86. Screen shot from S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Shadow of Chernobyl. GSC Game World, Ukraine.
87. Screen shot from S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Shadow of Chernobyl. GSC Game World
88. Screen shot from S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Shadow of Chernobyl. GSC Game World, Ukraine.
89. Photograph from Pierpaolo Mittica https://www.pierpaolomittica.com/projects/chernobyl-stories/
90. https://www.amazon.co.uk/Palgrave-Handbook-Dark-Tourism-Studies/dp/113747565X
91. Image from https://www.wingingtheworld.com/dark-tourism-destinations/
92. Diana Thater, Science Fiction https://www.davidzwirner.com/exhibitions/2015/science-fiction
93. Diana Thater , Science Fiction https://sjmusart.org/exhibition/beta-space-diana-thater
94. Diana Thater, Gorilla, Gorilla, Gorilla https://www.aspenartmuseum.org/exhibitions/68-diana-thater-gorillagorillagorilla
95. Diana Thater, Delphine, 2000 https://www.hauserwirth.com/hauser-wirth-exhibitions/2957-diana-thater-delphine/
96. Diana Thater, Chernobyl 2011 https://www.hauserwirth.com/hauser-wirth-exhibitions/3667-diana-thater-chernobyl/
97. Diana Thater, Chernobyl 2011 https://www.hauserwirth.com/hauser-wirth-exhibitions/3667-diana-thater-chernobyl/
98. Diana Thater, Chernobyl 2011 https://www.hauserwirth.com/hauser-wirth-exhibitions/3667-diana-thater-chernobyl/
99. Film Still from Stalker Andrei Tarkovsky 1979. MOS Films.
100. Film Still from Stalker Andrei Tarkovsky 1979. MOS Films.
101. Film Still from Stalker Andrei Tarkovsky 1979. MOS Films.
102. Pierpaolo Mittica https://www.lensculture.com/projects/596084-stalkers-of-chernobyl
103. Film Still from Stalker Andrei Tarkovsky 1979. MOS Films.
104. Film Still from Stalker Andrei Tarkovsky 1979. MOS Films.
105. Pierpaolo Mittica https://www.lensculture.com/projects/596084-stalkers-of-chernobyl
106. Film Still from Stalker Andrei Tarkovsky 1979. MOS Films.
107. Film Still from Stalker Andrei Tarkovsky 1979. MOS Films.
108. Photograph from Pierpaolo Mittica https://www.pierpaolomittica.com/projects/chernobyl-stories/
109. Photograph from Pierpaolo Mittica https://www.pierpaolomittica.com/projects/chernobyl-stories/
110. Photograph from Pierpaolo Mittica https://www.pierpaolomittica.com/projects/chernobyl-stories/
111. Diana Thater, Chernobyl 2011 https://www.hauserwirth.com/hauser-wirth-exhibitions/3667-diana-thater-chernobyl/
112. Solaris, Andrei Tarkovsky Mosfilms 1972.
113. Film Still from Stalker Andrei Tarkovsky 1979. MOS Films.
114. Swedish artist Hilda Hellström made bowls using radioactive soil collected from evacuation zone of Fukushima. 2012.
115. Black Square XVII (2015) Taryn Simon.
116. Trevor Paglen, Trinity Cube 2017 https://www.pacegallery.com/hiding-in-plain-sight-trevor-paglen/
117. Unknown Fields Division 2014 https://collection.maas.museum/object/548402
118. Again - Black Square XVII (2015) Taryn Simon.
119. Alice Miceli 2006 to 2010 “Projeto Chernobyl”
120. Alice Miceli 2006 to 2010 “Projeto Chernobyl”
121. Quote from Alice Miceli https://www.artnews.com/art-in-america/interviews/alice-miceli-chernobyl-radiographs-americas-society-56497/
122. Alice Miceli 2006 to 2010 “Projeto Chernobyl”
123. Alice Miceli 2006 to 2010 “Projeto Chernobyl”
124. Alice Miceli 2006 to 2010 “Projeto Chernobyl”
125. Film Still from Stalker Andrei Tarkovsky 1979. MOS Films.
126. Film Still from Stalker Andrei Tarkovsky 1979. MOS Films.
127. Screen grab from https://www.euractiv.com/section/global-europe/news/unprotected-russian-soldiers-disturbed-radioactive-dust-in-chernobyl-forest-workers-say/
128. https://www.ukradon.org/information/ukmaps
129. Alice Miceli 2006 to 2010 “Projeto Chernobyl”
130. Plant Cam image from Aviva Aviva Rahmani https://www.avivarahmani.com more here https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5fc05be8c89e1c4b8fbb930a/t/61875dc254984e08d9a242e3/1636261317305/2015Rahmani10252910phd-3+%282%29-compressed+%281%29.pdf
131.Image from https://mediaenviron.org/article/25256-the-blued-trees-symphony-as-transdisciplinary-mediation-for-environmental-policy
132.Image from https://mediaenviron.org/article/25256-the-blued-trees-symphony-as-transdisciplinary-mediation-for-environmental-policy
133. Still from the film If I eat you, will we both still be OK? (Plant) Installation documentation footage http://www.rhonaeveclews.com
144. Forest fires rage while men play golf. https://www.bbc.com/culture/article/20170908-the-golfers-who-putted-while-a-forest-burned
Thanks to all the artists - and of course all copyright remains with the artist.
Other references that I either refer to in the talk or that fed into my research:
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Cruikshank, Julie. Do Glaciers Listen?Local Knowledge, Colonial Encounters, and Social Imagination. UBC Press 2006.
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Yusof, Katherine. A Billion Black Anthropocenes or None. UP Press 2018.