Bending, spilling, dumping. Soil, rural resistance, and queer futurity.

弯曲、溢出、倾倒。

• 批准号: 2737323
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: University of Oxford
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Studentship
• 财政年份: 2022
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2022 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=studentship-2737323
• 关键词: Bending; spilling; dumping.; Soil; rural

This practice-led DPhil proposal will explore orientations and inclinations towards the soil, investigating urban- western relationships to subsistence, rural life, and soil politics. Following tactics developed by minoritarian social movements including peasant practices, farmers' riots and queer culture and theory, this project reorients Western urban relations to subsistence. This project departs from a place of urgency and foregrounds, through a focus on corporeality, the experiences of oppressed bodies. It also centers on subjugated histories and overlooked sites including Southern Mediterranean European farming communities that use protest as a tool for survival. These orientations are given precedence in calls for ecological change and transformations in human-soil relations. The project asks how we might reorient ourselves by learning from agricultural movements and queer phenomenology, finding alignment between queer activism and stewardship of the land. Through the development of sculptures and performances, this project will develop forms of solidarity that trespass the usual complexities of an urban-rural divide, offering hypotheses towards future forms of coexistence functioning as modes of action that resist necropolitical regimes by recruiting advocates for the soil. How can acts of resistance draw on vulnerability? This project challenges models of subjectivity that represent the ethical and active agent as erect and "upright," asking: What can we learn from inclining and bending? From bending towards each other and the land? I will research voices and material gestures that arrive from rural sites of hopelessness in the web of food production, with foods understood as political forms. This builds on previous research conducted in Southern Spain where small-holding agricultural farmers, historical peasants, and their ways of living are forced out by centralised market forces.The research proposed here also employs queer thinking and its embodiment as a way to expand on and chart a way out of dominant, privileged, hallowed ways of living. It sets out to 'reorient,' making things queer and disturbing the order of things (Ahmed 2006). Transition (Preciado 2018) and separation (Tsing 2016) are seen as ways to combat and disorientate worldviews that foreclose the possibility of a future where "the word for world is soil" (Puig de la Bellacasa 2017). Ideas drawn from Spanish rural essayist Jaime Izquierdo (2020), who argues for a useful historical entanglement of peasantry and landscape, guide the project in moving beyond current eco-urban critiques of farming and eco-bourgeois appropriations of the rural. The project emerges from an earth wound, creating alliances between soil workers who bend down to seed and harvest and queer bodies bowing towards ground and death. The forms of solidarity that arise trespass the usual complexities and divides, offering future forms of coexistence as modes of action that resist necropolitical regimes by recruiting advocates for the soil.The project will include a series of talks, fieldwork and installations, taking as a departure point certain forms of decelerated life and embodiments developed out of precedents from farming communities. Guiding precedents include works and archival images from Derek Jarman, Pepe Espaliu, and Felix Gonzalez-Torres whose embodied proximity to the earth as they incline toward death brought on by AIDS will be recruited as a mode of embodied knowledge offering insight into the gradual composting of life into terrain. Both communities-those of land stewards and those of queer artists-resist forced (and enforced) rectitude (Tsing, 2016), transforming vulnerability into fortitude and bending and inclining into resistance. Slowing-down activities such as the siesta, still common in Southern Europe, will be explored as speculative devices exercised physically and sculpturally to deactivate architectures of hyper-productivity.

这项以实践为主导的哲学博士提案将探索对土壤的方向和倾向，调查城市与西部地区与生存、农村生活和土壤政治的关系。该项目遵循少数派社会运动（包括农民实践、农民骚乱以及酷儿文化和理论）制定的策略，将西方城市关系重新定位为生存关系。该项目从紧迫性和前景出发，关注肉体和受压迫身体的经历。它还以被征服的历史和被忽视的地点为中心，包括利用抗议作为生存工具的南地中海欧洲农业社区。在呼吁生态变革和人地关系转变时，这些方向被优先考虑。该项目询问我们如何通过学习农业运动和酷儿现象学来重新定位自己，找到酷儿行动主义和土地管理之间的一致性。通过雕塑和表演的发展，该项目将发展团结的形式，超越城乡鸿沟通常的复杂性，为未来的共存形式提供假设，作为通过招募土壤倡导者来抵抗死亡政治政权的行动模式。抵抗行为如何利用脆弱性？该项目挑战了将道德和主动主体代表为直立和“直立”的主观性模型，并提出问题：我们可以从倾斜和弯曲中学到什么？向彼此和土地弯曲？我将研究来自食品生产网络中绝望的农村地区的声音和物质姿态，食品被理解为政治形式。这是建立在之前在西班牙南部进行的研究的基础上的，那里的小农、历史农民及其生活方式被集中的市场力量所取代。这里提出的研究还采用了酷儿思维及其体现，作为一种扩展和摆脱占主导地位的、特权的、神圣的生活方式的方式。它开始“重新定位”，使事情变得奇怪并扰乱事物的秩序（Ahmed 2006）。过渡（Preciado 2018）和分离（Tsing 2016）被视为对抗和迷惑世界观的方式，这些世界观排除了“世界的词是土壤”的未来的可能性（Puig de la Bellacasa 2017）。西班牙农村散文家 Jaime Izquierdo（2020）主张农民与景观之间存在有益的历史纠葛，他的想法引导该项目超越了当前生态城市对农业的批评和生态资产阶级对农村的占用。该项目源于地球的伤口，在弯腰播种和收获的土壤工人与向地面鞠躬和死亡的酷儿身体之间建立了联盟。出现的团结形式超越了通常的复杂性和分歧，提供了未来的共存形式，作为通过招募土壤倡导者来抵制死亡政治政权的行动模式。该项目将包括一系列会谈、实地考察和装置，以某些减速生活形式和从农业社区先例中发展出来的体现为出发点。指导性先例包括德里克·贾曼（Derek Jarman）、佩佩·埃斯帕利乌（Pepe Espaliu）和菲利克斯·冈萨雷斯-托雷斯（Felix Gonzalez-Torres）的作品和档案图像，他们在因艾滋病而走向死亡时所体现的与地球的接近将被招募为一种体现知识的模式，提供对生命逐渐堆肥到地形中的洞察力。土地管理者和酷儿艺术家的社区都抵制强迫（和强制）的正直（Tsing，2016），将脆弱转化为刚毅，将弯曲和倾向转化为抵抗。诸如午睡之类的放慢活动在南欧仍然很常见，将被探索为物理和雕塑上的投机手段，以停用超生产力的架构。