Description
In 2008, as the storms of the financial crash blew, Isabelle Fremeaux and Jay Jordan deserted the metropolis and their academic jobs, traveling across Europe in search of post-capitalist utopias. They wanted their art activism to no longer be uprooted.
They arrived at a place French politicians had declared lost to the republic, otherwise know as the zad (the zone to defend): a messy but extraordinary canvas of commoning, illegally occupying 4,000 acres of wetlands where an international airport was planned. In 2018, the 40-year-long struggle snatched an incredible victory, defeating the airport expansion project through a powerful cocktail that merged creation and resistance. Fremeaux and Jordan blend rich eyewitness accounts with theory, inspired by a diverse array of approaches, from neo-animism to revolutionary biology, insurrectionary writings and radical art history.Author: Isabelle Fremeaux, Jay Jordan
Publisher: Pluto Press (UK)
Published: 11/20/2021
Pages: 160
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.45lbs
Size: 8.40h x 4.30w x 0.50d
ISBN13: 9780745345871
ISBN10: 0745345875
BISAC Categories:
- Art | Subjects & Themes | Landscapes & Seascapes
- Art | Subjects & Themes | Plants & Animals
- Science | Life Sciences | Ecology
About the Author
Isabelle Fremeaux is a popular educator and action researcher. She was formerly Senior Lecturer in Media and Cultural Studies at Birkbeck College London. Along with Jay Jordan, she is a coordinator of The Laboratory of Insurrectionary Imagination.