Vol. 7 No. 1 (2025): EcoArte: Art, Territory, and Heritage in Transformation

We live in a world of constant change that pushes us forward, often forgetting the past and those who came before us. Public institutions and museums, in particular, as spaces that safeguard the memory of our collective heritage, bear a social, cultural, and ecological responsibility to preserve this memory on the basis of equality, equity, sustainability, and interculturality.

The Nomadic Chair of Research-Creation | Diversitas USP adopts a perspective grounded in research, reflection, and poetic-political action concerning the active presence of women in art, science, and education. This work is developed through artivist curatorial practices and the collaboration of artist-researchers from different parts of the world, fostering situated, horizontal artistic practices that break with hierarchies, with a special focus on the Global South.

“EcoArt: Geopoetics of the South: Art, Gender, and Biocultural Transformation in a Contemporary Latin American Context” stems from the art, ecology, and technology project EcoArte: Terra em Trânsito, carried out throughout 2024 in Brazil and Spain. It proposes to expand and deepen experiences, processes, methods, and connections among artists, researchers, artivists, environmentalists, and educators through ecopoetic creation and research processes. These processes directly engage issues that articulate body, ecology, memory, and technodiversity, bringing into dialogue different cosmoperceptions and forms of care, and highlighting the interdependence among diverse forms of human and non-human existence.