170 x 240mm, 320 pages, Colour printing, Perfect bound, Softcover, 2024

Inspired by how rivers bend and curve, connecting entire ecosystems, Meandering: Art, Ecology, and Metaphysics unfolds the cultural, historical, spiritual, and ecological trajectories of waterways, reflecting the vitality of water, from source to sea. A diverse group of artists and writers set out to trace river systems from the sierras and forests of southern Spain, to the heartlands of the Americas and the undersurface of the Mediterranean, proposing new routes for collaborative research and knowledge-production.

In newly commissioned texts and a selection of influential essays—including a transhistorical dialogue between the twelfth-century mystic, Ibn ‘Arabī  and the renowned essayist, Sylvia Wynter—as well as lyrics, scent, recipes, critical-contemplative writing, and guided meditations, Meandering combines rich visual documentation with insights from the fields of art, visual culture, environmental humanities, ecotheosophy, mysticism, critical theory, and decolonial studies. This volume offers a practical and poetic toolset for a dynamic reconciliation between action and imagination to address the pressing social and environmental challenges of our time.

This publication is part of an art and ecology research program of the same name curated by Sofia Lemos at TBA21–Academy. By exploring social and environmental justice through the lens of community-oriented practice, it presents a case for the role of artistic research and public programs in revealing our interbeing, and shapes new convergences between interdisciplinary and interfaith studies.

Foreword by Markus Reymann

Contributions by Jesús Alcaide, Gracia LóPez Anguita, Sally Fenaux Barleycorn, Lourdes Cabrera, Edgar Calel, Federico Campagna, Carolina Caycedo, Carmen Pérez Cuello, Elizabeth Gallón Droste, Övül Ö. Durmuşoğlu, Victoria García Gómez, Brooke Holmes, Juan LopéZ IntzíN, Lafawndah, Sofia Lemos, Isabel Lewis, Gabrielle Mangeri, Michael Marder, Ana MaríA MilláN, Eduardo Navarro, Lorenzo Sandoval, Chaveli Sifre, Emilija ŠKarnulytė, Rosa Tharrats, Caique Tizzi, Francisco Godoy Vega, Medina Tenour Whiteman, Silvia Wynter.

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