Paper short abstract:

This paper aims to analyze a series of contemporary Latin American techno-aesthetic practices wich investigate new potencies of acting, imagining and thinking the current scenario and the future from a situated epistemological perspective and through a material exploration of the artistic processes.

Paper long abstract:

In the 21st century, two seemingly irreversible phenomena have become unavoidable: the progressive devastation of natural environments caused by human action and the increasing technification of all our experiences. It seems clear that thinking about both issues becomes an urgent matter, but how can we think about these issues, bringing them together? How does contemporary art address the environmental and civilizational crisis? These questions, and their answers, take on particular inflections in Latin America, where the cyclical social and political crises tragically update the plundering of natural resources, the extermination of native populations, the contamination of food, and neo-extractivism.

This paper aims to analyze contemporary Latin American techno-aesthetic practices that explore new potentialities of acting, imagining and thinking the planetary crisis from perspectives committed to the diagnosis of the "end of the world" and located in the global south. This paper will be guided by the following precise questions: How do contemporary techno-aesthetics in Latin America highlight the ethical-political logics of intervention in diverse forms of existence and in the "environment"? What alternative narrative forms emerge from these new distributions between nature and culture embodied in the technical images? This paper proposes that techno-aesthetic materials, through their logics of material and media existence, trace a political ecology capable of diagramming a non-anthropic sensibility in contemporary Latin American aesthetic practices, rewriting the codes of modern aesthetics from which poetics and politics have been thought in the art of this region.