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ECOTECH: LANDSCAPE AS LAB
ecologies | fieldwork | environmental systems | more-than-human relations
This section brings together a body of work that engages the environment as a distributed site of experimentation, where ecological systems, human bodies, and technological processes intersect. Projects including The Pheromone Trees and Coyote; (LAB)YRINTH; The Trouble with Jäkälä; Prospective Futures: The Aurelia Project; Blóm + Blóð; and Float I & II collectively reposition the landscape as an active, unstable laboratory in which knowledge is produced through situated, embodied interaction.
Pheromonal exchanges, lichen ecologies, bacterial remediation, ritualized sensing practices, and embodied encounters with terrain unfold in situ, shaped by the agencies of more-than-human actors whose behaviours exceed prediction or control. Experiments are often partial, speculative, or deliberately unstable: systems fail, interventions are redirected, and encounters remain indirect or unresolved. In this context, contingency, misalignment, and breakdown become generative conditions.
These works are grounded in an ecotechnofeminist artistic practice that examines how technologies participate, or fail to participate in the restructuring of relationships between human and more-than-human worlds.
Within this broader framework, Alma appears as an ecological intervention gone rogue, its outcomes exceeding the intended parameters of the work and extending beyond the bounds of this section (see Alma in the ICKY MATERIALITY section).
Ecotechnofeminism is identified here as an artistic practice, informed by and adapted from “Techno-Ecofeminism; Nonhuman Sensations in Technoplanetary Layers” by Yvonne Volkart, translated by Rebecca van Dykes, and published in The Beautiful Warriors: Technofeminist Praxis in the Twenty-First Century (ed. Cornelia Sollfrank, 2020).
