{"id":34985,"date":"2023-03-07T20:57:16","date_gmt":"2023-03-07T19:57:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/desarrollo.montera34.com\/?p=34985"},"modified":"2023-03-07T21:11:11","modified_gmt":"2023-03-07T20:11:11","slug":"permanent-seminar-images-of-art-and-political-ecology-iii-session-an-oil-well-named-macondo-the-gulf-of-mexico-and-the-infrastructural-turn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/desarrollo.montera34.com\/en\/conferences\/permanent-seminar-images-of-art-and-political-ecology-iii-session-an-oil-well-named-macondo-the-gulf-of-mexico-and-the-infrastructural-turn\/","title":{"rendered":"Permanent seminar “Images (of art) and political ecology” – III Session \u201cAn oil well named Macondo: the Gulf of Mexico and the Infrastructural Turn\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\u201cAn oil well named Macondo: the Gulf of Mexico and the Infrastructural Turn\u201d<\/span>
\nIII Session of the permanent seminar “Images (of art) and political ecology”, with Mar\u00eda Zazzarino<\/strong>.<\/span><\/p>\n

In April 2010, a British Petroleum well blew up in the Gulf of Mexico. Situated at more than 1,5000 kilometers under the sea, the<\/span>
\nwell spilled over 30,000 liters of crude oil into the Caribbean Sea, causing what is considered to be the worst oil catastrophe to<\/span>
\ndate. A minor but nevertheless telling detail of this catastrophe was BP\u2019s decision to name the oil well Maconodo. Accidental or<\/span>
\nnot, the name nevertheless resonates with the long history of extractive practices in the Americas. From the framework of the<\/span>
\nimaginaries of extraction, the Macondo spill portions the Deepwater Horizon disaster not as a \u201cblowout,\u201d as the press dubbed it,<\/span>
\nbut as the spectacularized version of the long history of dispossession and slow violence that fossil capital exerts in the region.<\/span><\/p>\n

Taking the Deepwater Horizon disaster as a point of departure, this seminar concerns the long history of fossil capitalism in<\/span>
\nsouthern Louisiana and it pays attention to petroleum\u2019s visual culture and its contestations. It centers the visual production that<\/span>
\nemerged with the Deepwater Horizon spill in order to examine the infrastructural turn both in media studies and in artistic<\/span>
\nproduction. On the one hand, the infrastructural turn in artistic production interrogates the conceptualization of infrastructure as a<\/span>
\nneutral technical object. On the other, it proposes recuperative geo-logics that center black and indigenous experiences to imagine<\/span>
\npossible futures. Works considered in the seminar include Brenda Longfellow\u2019s interactive documentary Offshore<\/em><\/a>, Kate Orff’<\/a>s<\/span>
\nand Imani Jacqueline Brown<\/a>‘s infrastructural works, and collages by visual artist and activist Monique Michelle Verdin<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n

The reading texts for the session can be found at these links: 1<\/a> and 2<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n

Those wishing to attend the seminar, which will take place at the Centro de Ciencias Humanas y Sociales (CSIC, c\/ Albasanz, 26,<\/span>
\nMadrid, room to be determined) on 22 March 2023 at 10am, should let us know via this<\/a> contact form.<\/span><\/p>\n

Maria Zazzarino<\/strong> is a PhD student and instructor in Comparative Literature at University of California – Santa Barbara. Her<\/span>
\nresearch focuses on petroleum cultures in the wider Caribbean region.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\u201cAn oil well named Macondo: the Gulf of Mexico and the Infrastructural Turn\u201d III Session of the permanent seminar “Images (of art) and political ecology”, with Mar\u00eda Zazzarino. In April 2010, a British Petroleum well blew up in the Gulf of Mexico. Situated at more than 1,5000 kilometers under the sea, the well spilled over […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":34978,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"general":[],"actividad":[82],"class_list":["post-34985","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","actividad-seminars"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/desarrollo.montera34.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34985","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/desarrollo.montera34.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/desarrollo.montera34.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desarrollo.montera34.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desarrollo.montera34.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34985"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/desarrollo.montera34.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34985\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34988,"href":"https:\/\/desarrollo.montera34.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34985\/revisions\/34988"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desarrollo.montera34.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/34978"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/desarrollo.montera34.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34985"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desarrollo.montera34.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34985"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desarrollo.montera34.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34985"},{"taxonomy":"general","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desarrollo.montera34.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/general?post=34985"},{"taxonomy":"actividad","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desarrollo.montera34.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/actividad?post=34985"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}