sensing interdependency, experiencing embeddedness, extending the frame while zooming in

This text is a dialogic conjunction of working practices developed in and around specific quarries, with Karin Reisinger tracing the material and life-worlds of iron ore in Malmberget and Petra Lilja the limestone in Limhamn, both in Sweden. We walk and think with humans and non-humans such as rocks, stones and minerals through our respective practices and pedagogies of design and architecture. Our practices take place in and around quarries, extractive sites of mining. We come in after the machines, when it is time to think about how to move forwards, to deal with the losses, to repair and care and to find strategies of surviving and coming together in educational situations. Dealing with the large-scale spatial changes, we are deeply aware that we are participating in massive earthly and material movements. With this paper we also share connections between theory and practice, based on a feminist–materialist framework. These connections lead us to the various applied practices of sensing interdependency, experiencing embeddedness and extending the frame while zooming in and to its epistemological reverberations.

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Petra Lilja

Karin Reisinger

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Publication date: September 2021

Publication date (Print): September 2021

Pages: 77-83

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[0001]Konstfack University

Stockholm, Sweden

[0002]Academy of Fine Arts Vienna

Vienna, Austria

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DOI: 10.14236/ewic/POM2021.10

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Conference name: Proceedings of Politics of the Machines - Rogue Research 2021

Conference acronym: POM 2021

Conference number: 3

Conference location: Berlin, Germany

Conference date: September 14-17, 2021

Conference sponsor: Electronic Workshops in Computing (eWiC)

Conference theme: debate and devise concepts and practices that seek to critically question and unravel novel modes of science

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[1] S. Alaimo (2018) Trans-corporeality. In R. Braidotti, & M. Hlavajova, M. (eds), Posthuman glossary. Bloomsbury Academic, London.

[2] J. Boehnert (2018) Design, ecology, politics, towards the Ecocene. Bloomsbury Academic, London and New York.

[3] R. Braidotti (1994) Nomadic subjects: Embodiment and sexual difference in contemporary feminist theory. Columbia University Press, New York.

[4] J. Butler (2005) Giving an account of oneself. Fordham University Press, New York.

[5] M. DeLanda (1997) A thousand years of nonlinear history. Zone Books, New York.

[6] S. Frost (2011) The implications of the new materialisms for feminist epistemology. In H. E. Grasswick (ed), Feminist epistemology and philosophy of science: Power in knowledge. Springer, Dordrecht.

[7] D. J. Haraway (1988) Situated knowledges: The science question in feminism and the privilege of partial perspective. Feminist Studies, 14, 575-599.

[8] D. J. Haraway (2016) Staying with the trouble: Making kin in the Chthulucene. Duke University Press, Durham and London.

[9] W. Harcourt & I. L. Nelson (2015) Practising feminist political ecologies: Moving beyond the “Green Economy”. Zed Books, London.

[10] W. V. P. Jacobson-Galán, A. Polin, R. J. Foley, G. Dimitriadis, C. D. Kilpatrick, R. MarguttiI, D. A. Coulter, S. W. Jha, D. O. Jones, R. P. Kirshner, Y. Pan, A. L. Piro, A. Rest & C. Rojas-Bravo (2020) Ca hnk: The calcium-rich transient supernova 2016hnk from a helium shell detonation of a sub-Chandrasekhar White Dwarf. The Astrophysical Journal, 896, 165–190.

[11] P. Lilja (2021) Tracing matters of scale by walking with minerals. NORDES, 9, forthcoming.

[12] L. Margulis & D. Sagan (2000) What is life? University of California Press, Berkeley.

[13] S. Mollett 2017. Gender’s critical edge: Feminist political ecology, postcolonial intersectionality, and the coupling of race and gender. In S. MacGregor (ed), Routledge Handbook of Gender and Environment. Routledge, Abingdon and New York.

[14] A. Neimanis, C. Chen & J. MacLeod (2013) Thinking with water. McGill-Queen’s University Press, Montreal.

[15] M.-B. Öhman (2020) Gut la dån? Vem är du? Kukas sie olet? – Who are you? In D. Golling & C. Minguez Carrasco (eds), Kiruna Forever. ArkDes, Stockholm.

[16] E. A. Povinelli (2017) Geontologies: The concept and its territories. e-flux Journal 81. http://www.e-flux.com/journal/81/123372/geontologies-the-concept-and-its-territories/ (21-08-30).

[17] K. Reisinger (2020) Reflections about a disappearing mining town in the archive: Staying with its non-permanency. In C. Pech & M. Anderson (eds), Symposium on architectural history at ArkDes. ArkDes, Stockholm.

[18] K. Reisinger (2021) Radically alive, a disappearing mining town at Europe’s margins. In A. Radman & S. Kousoulas (eds), Architectures of life and death: Eco-aesthetics of the built environment. Rowman & Littlefield, Lanham and Boulder.

[19] J. Rendell (2016) Giving account of oneself: Architecturally. Journal of Visual Culture, 15(3), 334-348.

[20] D. Rocheleau, B. Thomas-Slayter & E. Wangari (eds) (1996) Feminist Political Ecology: Global issues and local experiences. Routledge, London and New York.

[21] K. Sehlin MacNeil (2017) Extractive violence on indigenous country: Sami and Aboriginal views on conflicts and power relations with extractive industries. Umeå University, Umeå.

[22] S. Springgay & S. E. Truman (2018) Walking methodologies in a more-than-human world: Walkinglab. Routledge, London and New York.

[23] S. E. Truman (2019) Feminist new materialisms. In P. A. Atkinson, S. Delamont, M. A. Hardy & M. Williams (eds), SAGE Research methods foundations. SAGE Publications Ltd, London.

[24] A. Tsing (2015) The mushroom at the end of the world: On the possibility of life in capitalist ruins. Princeton University Press, Princeton.

[25] T. Van Dooren, E. Kirksey & U. Münster (2016) Multispecies studies, cultivating arts of attentiveness. Environmental Humanities, 8(1), 1–23.

[26] K. Yusoff (2018) A billion black Anthropocenes or none. University of Minnesota Press, Minneapolis.

[27] J. Zalasiewicz, M. Williams, C. N. Waters, A. D. Barnosky & P. Haff (2014) The technofossil record of humans. The Anthropocene Review, 1, 34–43.

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