Fossil Time: oil, art and the body in the cosmopolitics of the Anthropocene

Authors

  • Mari Fraga (Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro – UFRJ, Rio de Janeiro/RJ, Brasil) Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro – UFRJ, Rio de Janeiro/RJ

Keywords:

Body, Contemporary Art, Fossil Fuels, Anthropocene, Climate Change

Abstract

An artistic and theoretical investigation on fossil fuels, industrial agencies in nature and their reflections on social structures and power systems. With the goal of inspecting the operation of the arts in the cosmopolitical battles of the present especially in the new geological epoch called Anthropocene – the article analyses performance and sculpture as practices that could materialize crossings of temporalities and dimensions, reflecting on the encounter between the scales of the human and the planet. Bruno Latour’s Actor-network theory is a departing point for conceptual speculations, developed with the freedom and experimentation that moves artistic research.

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Author Biography

Mari Fraga (Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro – UFRJ, Rio de Janeiro/RJ, Brasil), Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro – UFRJ, Rio de Janeiro/RJ

Mari Fraga é artista, pesquisadora e professora. Doutora em Artes pelo Instituto de Artes da Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro (UERJ), com período na Konstfack University of Arts, Crafts and Design, Suécia (bolsa Capes PDSE). Atualmente é professora na Escola de Belas Artes da Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ), e é editora da revista Carbono, que propõe diálogos entre arte e ciência (www.revistacarbono.com). Produção artística no website: www.cargocollective/marifraga

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Published

2022-10-04

How to Cite

Fraga (Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro – UFRJ, Rio de Janeiro/RJ, Brasil), M. (2022). Fossil Time: oil, art and the body in the cosmopolitics of the Anthropocene. Brazilian Journal on Presence Studies, 8(1), 31–62. Retrieved from https://seer.ufrgs.br/index.php/presenca/article/view/72285

Issue

Vol. 8 No. 1 (2018): Jan./Mar. 2018

Section

Politics en Scène

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