Pandora's Box - Archive Books

It’s all in relations, connections…

the possible infrastructures

and the paths of agency

the energy transmitted or bounced off

waves diffracted

particles on the bottom of all elements

conversations as currents on

the planetary and the nano level

Pandora’s Box explores the form of conversation as a method of aesthetic solidarity and empowerment. As an online platform it collects and archives talks, stories, discourses and struggles to re-value and constantly reboot practices of solidarity. The conversations and texts published in this first Volume are starting and connecting points creating a web of support, exchange and dispersion being a catalyser for planetary solidarity and imaginary and real material nanocommunities.

Pandora’s Box

Edited by Susanne M. Winterling and Antonia Lotz

Contributions by: Bodhisattva Chattopadhyay, Biljana Ciric, Laleta Davis-Mattis, Övül Ö. Durmuşoğlu, Eddie Esmail, Silvia Federici, Denise Ferreira da Silva, Unni M. Fjellheim, Chris Kraus, Suzana Milevska, Pakama Ngceni, Iris Orizar, Elizabeth A. Povinelli, Anupam Roy

Design by V-A STUDIO

Printed by Bianca & Volta, Milan

English
ISBN: 978-3-948212-65-0
216 pages
13 x 20 cm

Euros 18,00

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