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Shifting Scales, Salinities, Shorelines

Taru Elfving   “Entanglement with others makes life possible, but when one relationship goes awry, the repercussions ripple”[1]   Flying over the Baltic Sea, as the plane approached Copenhagen airport, I gazed at the expanse of blue below me, dotted with wind turbines, and thought for a moment that every white splash of a wave…

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Machines of Deceleration [1]

Vanina Saracino   Kiruna, the northernmost town in Sweden, was built at the end of the 19th century to begin the extractive operations of iron ore in what later became one of the largest mines in the world. More recently, the city has become widely known to be “on the move”—dozens of houses were carried…

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Screen Ecologies

T.J. Demos[1]   A surge of recent art has engaged ecology in newly complex ways, including by confronting environmental injustice and social violence in aesthetically provocative forms. Consider the visual culture materializing and abetting pipeline blockades and Indigenous sovereignty struggles, including at Standing Rock in the US, with activists defending life, water, and land. Or…

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Introduction: Ecologies – lost, found and continued

Volume 2, Fall 2019 Edited by Vanina Saracino Aimed at overcoming human exceptionalism and engaging the readers in post-anthropocentric worldviews, the SCB Journal, Ecologies – lost, found and continued broadly inquires into art’s agency in creating awareness and mobilization towards climate justice. With contributions by academics, artists, curators and activists, the journal deepens the Biennial’s…

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Editorial: Migrating Stories

Volume 1, Fall 2017 With aims of establishing a theoretical, analytical and exploratory extension of the Screen City Biennial and deepen out perspectives to the biennial’s framework of activities, the first volume of the SCB Journal departs from the theme Migrating Stories. This is a theme evoking notions of globalisation, post colonialism, diaspora and cultural…

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Settlement, Shelter and Stowaway: From Location to Logistics

Maeve Connolly   What role does site play in the telling of ‘migratory stories’, and in art practices that are characterised by extension and expansion, but also attentive to borders and ‘logistical media of coordination, capture, and control’[1]? Documentary has, particularly since 2002, emerged as a privileged form for artists (and activists) to engage with…

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Artist Conversation: Enrique Ramírez

On sails, poetry and the aesthetico-political history of Chile   Stavanger, March 2017   Daniela Arriado: Your work is related to memory, the continuity of memory and exile; both in terms of content and in a poetic way, it has a strong political dimension. Also, sound is an important element. Maybe you would introduce your…

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