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

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.

摘要：本研究围绕化石燃料、自然界中的工业行动体，以及二者对社会结构与权力体系的投射与反思，展开艺术与理论层面的探究。本研究旨在审视艺术在当下宇宙政治博弈中的运作逻辑，尤其聚焦于被称为人类世（Anthropocene）的全新地质时代。本文将表演艺术与雕塑创作视作能够使时间性与维度的跨界得以具象呈现的实践，以此反思人类尺度与行星尺度的相遇与交融。本研究以布鲁诺·拉图尔（Bruno Latour）的行动者网络理论（Actor-Network Theory）作为概念思辨的出发点，依托推动艺术研究的自由探索与实验精神展开相关论述。