Three Ecologies: Scene 2: Planetary Echologies

Join Gallery QI for this performative piece by Unidad de Conciencias Colectivas Terrestres (Terrestrial Collective Consciousness Unit), Electronic Disturbance Theater 2.0 and *particle group* from QI Principal Investigator Ricardo Dominguez.

“Scene 2: Planetary Echologies” explores climate borders, environmental degradation and “ecosophy,” a philosophy dedicated to studying links between social relations, human subjectivity and the natural world, through the medium of art. The performers find inspiration in the book “The Three Ecologies,” in which the psychoanalyst, philosopher and playwright Félix Guattari defines ecology at three different scales: planet-wide crises like the pandemic and climate change, intermediate-level relations like micro-politics and micro- and molecular scales within the body.

Drawing on border cultural theorist-artist-poet Omar Pimienta’s formulation of the “fronterizomático” Bajalta California aesthetic (an argument he develops by way of Guattari and Gilles Deleuze’s rhizomatic), performers in “Scene 2” stage pop-up border drawing and writing clinics, speculative border and science-art exhibitions in an effort to shrink the monumental distance between La Jolla and practices of borderization. The performance draws attention to six degrees of separation between the immaterial labor of bio/tech and military R&D and the material effects of environmental degradation.

Note: This event is a follow-up to the premiere of #RetroColectiva, an ongoing exhibit from Dominguez at the Gallery QI. It is not necessary to have seen the premiere to enjoy “Three Echologies.”

All Gallery QI events are free and open to the public. Food and drink will be provided.

RSVP to: galleryqi@ucsd.edu

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An important note: The Gallery QI adheres to current UC San Diego guidelines regarding COVID-19 and public safety.

• Students, staff, faculty, and UC Affiliates must show their daily symptom screener and must have green thumb to attend.
• Non-affiliate attendees are encouraged to test within 24 hours of the event.