Project description
Ethnographical analysis of waste’s socio-environmental life
Industrial development from Western civilization has adversely affected Indigenous people (IP), leading to pollution and waste impacting their lives. Both indigenous and non-Indigenous artists are taking a stand against pollution’s effects on marine ecosystems through their art. The ERC-funded OSPAPIK project will conduct a comparative study on the interplay between marine, space, and debris, and how IPs' artistic expressions and knowledge can strengthen resistance to polluting activities. Through in-depth research, OSPAPIK will explore how IP knowledge, skills, and memories contribute to this resistance. By analysing waste’s socio-environmental impact and focusing on the ocean, space, and local cosmogonies, it will shed light on their material connections to waste and debris, incorporated into their artistic motifs and patterns.
Objective
What is the role of contemporary Indigenous artists, and non-Indigenous artists engaging with Indigenous people knowledges, in making ocean and space pollution visible? How are Indigenous knowledges, know-how, histories, and memories mobilised to address current environmental crises?
Strongly grounded in anthropology and the arts, OSPAPIK is both pluri- and interdisciplinary. It offers innovative approaches to pollution, Indigenous knowledges, and the arts through its systematic focus on materiality and on the relationship that people have with waste. It intends to develop novel, critical, and ethnographically-informed analyses of the socio-environmental life of waste by investigating how creative and artistic expressions allow the artists themselves, scientists, expedition project organisers, and audiences to better understand how marine ecosystems and (outer) space are impacted by pollution. It will also interrogate whether the study of arts provides means to better understand the different professional sectors and actors involved in depolluting.
The whole project is designed to rigorously analyse conjointly 1/ the motifs and patterns used by Indigenous artists and non-Indigenous artists collaborating with Indigenous people and 2/ the ways these artists use ocean and outer space waste and debris as artistic material.
It focuses on the ocean and space, where pollution can be invisible to the eyes, and which are spaces that are often deemed sacred according to Indigenous cosmogonies, but have been perceived, according to dominant Western modern conceptions, as uninhabited.
The project aims to study comparatively affective, professional, sensorial, and historical relationships to marine, nuclear, and space debris and waste, through an analysis of Indigenous artistic practices and non-Indigenous practices engaging with Indigenous knowledges.
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Project’s keywords as indicated by the project coordinator. Not to be confused with the EuroSciVoc taxonomy (Fields of science)
- Indigenous Arts and Literatures
- Contemporary Art
- Indigenous Knowledges
- ocean pollution
- space debris
- light pollution
- nuclear waste
- plastics
- Persistant Organic pollutants
- Pacific islands
- Oceania
- Australia
- French Guiana
- European spaceport
- collaboration
- museum
- environmental protection
- transmission
- stories
- creativity
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HORIZON.1.1 - European Research Council (ERC)
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