The Socialist Anthropocene in the Visual Arts

Sava项目致力于从根本上改变目前关于人类世的争论，通过建立社会主义人类世作为一个新的概念框架，确立社会主义人类世在新地质时代的形成中的构成作用，从而解决现有报告中的主要漏洞。这是第一个大型跨学科研究项目，将社会主义人类世作为一个新的研究领域，在涉及挑战和偏离以西方为中心的人类世论述的批评语料库中。研究围绕五个主题展开，通过这五个主题对社会主义人类世的独特性、认识论、关系和潜力进行分析，即：非激进主义的社会主义实践、社会主义制度的基础设施、农村的改造、社会主义下的物种和社会主义人类世的文化。该项目的开创性方法是通过视觉艺术引领的跨学科研究重建社会主义人类世的历史，这需要分析历史艺术品和参与当代艺术实践，这些艺术实践作为整合多个学科的见解的催化剂，并作为提出雄心勃勃和广泛问题的批判性因素，挑战假设和产生新的跨学科范式，以阐明社会主义人类世的特殊性和确定其潜力。Sava还纳入了环境史、科学史和人类人类学以外的领域的见解，这些领域对人类世的批判性重新评估产生了高度的影响，同时借鉴了对历史社会主义的全球研究，以超越地区主义，并将社会主义人类世作为一个具有全球意义的概念。

The SAVA project sets out to radically transform current debates on the Anthropocene, addressing the major lacuna in existing accounts by establishing the Socialist Anthropocene as a novel conceptual framework that asserts the constitutive role of the twentieth century environmental histories of socialism in the formation of the new geological age. It is the first large-scale interdisciplinary research project that institutes the Socialist Anthropocene as a new field of study within the critical corpus concerned with challenging and decentring the West-centric discourses of the Anthropocene. The research is organised around five thematic streams through which the distinctiveness, epistemologies, relationalities and potentialities of the Socialist Anthropocene will be analysed, namely: the socialist praxis of extractivism, infrastructures of the socialist system, transformation of the countryside, species under socialism and cultures of the Socialist Anthropocene. The groundbreaking approach of the project is to reconstruct the histories of the Socialist Anthropocene through visual arts led interdisciplinary research, which entails analysing historical artworks and engaging with contemporary art practices that act as a catalyst to integrate the insights of multiple disciplines and as a critical agent to pose ambitious and expansive questions, challenging assumptions and engendering new cross-disciplinary paradigms to illuminate the specificities and identify the potentialities of the Socialist Anthropocene. SAVA also incorporates the insights of environmental history, the history of science and beyond-human anthropology, fields that are highly generative of critical reassessments of the Anthropocene, while drawing on global studies of historical socialisms to go beyond regionalism and formulate the Socialist Anthropocene as a globally relevant concept.