Project description
Fostering ecological responsibility through performance arts
Environmental degradation represents a form of ‘slow violence’ that heavily burdens marginalised populations, such as those in southern Italy’s industrial regions. Women in these regions face the intersecting burdens of toxic embodiment and health issues, along with the responsibilities of childbearing and caretaking. Consequently, women and mothers often initiate local campaigns to protect their environments and physical well-being. Supported by the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions programme, the ECOFEM project will explore how gendered ecological violence and toxic embodiment are experienced and challenged near Mount Vesuvius, where toxic contamination and volcanic risk coexist. Bringing together ecofeminist and conceptual frameworks, it aims to examine how performance art can create alternative narratives to support environmental accountability.
Objective
Ecological crises and the existential threat of climate change have now become undeniable, reaching us from around the world through vivid images: oil spills, waste pits, floods, ravishing forest fires. Yet the effects of environmental violence are often experienced imperceptibly in everyday life, over long periods of time. For this reason, the impact of pollution and environmental risk is now commonly referred to as a form of “slow violence.” This ecological violence disproportionately affects marginalized communities, particularly those in southern Italy, which as Europe’s internal margin bears the burden of industrial and state-led waste economies. Within these communities, women and feminized subjects endure a double layer of slow violence, as their bodies bear both the intersectional burdens of disease and the patriarchal responsibility for social reproduction. As a result, women and mothers are frequently at the forefront of community-led struggles to protect their bodies and environment. A fundamental question persists, however: how can we make visible the elusive nature of toxic pollution, as well as the gendered dimension of these very movements of resistance—forms of slow toxicity that remain equally unseen in everyday life? And how can performance arts and theater serve as embodied methods to express and make visible the experience of these intersecting, often invisible, forms of harm and resistance? ECOFEM tackles these questions through the innovative methodologies of ethnographic research-creation in the toxic landscape of Terzigno, near Naples, bringing together ecofeminist frameworks, multimodal ethnography, and collaborative arts (theater and embodied performance).
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HORIZON.1.2 - Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA)
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30123 Venezia
Italy
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