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How might art forms and practices contribute to multispecies coalition-building for a livable future? The environmental sociologist John Bellamy Foster has expanded Karl Marx’s concept of metabolic rift to describe capitalism’s fundamental disruption of ecological processes, creating fractures between human labor and non or more-than human life. This rift throws human and more-than-human life out of balance, resulting in collapses of ecosystems, climates, and societies.
This discussion explores some ways in which metabolic rift manifests across life- sustaining processes, and how it i’s expanded and intensified by industrial agriculture and big data (including precision livestock farming and factory-farm automation to manage animal bodies as data).
As part of the exhibition Holding Water, join artist Mary Mattingly, environmental humanities scholar Ashley Dawson (Ph.D. Program in English), and Berlin-based artist Terike Haapoja for a conversation about ways we might approach repairing this rift through art.
