The Vera List Center is pleased to present NO WORK, NO SHOP: Socio-Environmental Imagination and Pedagogies of Action, the first in a series of public programs by VLC Boris Lurie Fellow Etcétera, on April 22 and 23, 2021.
In celebration of Earth Day, this lab brings together leading environmental thinkers, artists, collectives, and activists who counter prevalent models of transnational, resource extractivist industries. Instead, they offer Buen Vivir, or "Good Living,” as an alternative approach to these developmental ideologies, rejecting the dynamics of extractivism in favor of ecological and communal principles.
Over the course of two days, the lab presents itself as an exchange of socio-environmental knowledge, strategies, and actions, developed in response to neo-extractivist models—a combination of neo-colonial, global exploitation of natural resources, the export of raw materials, and the devastating impact on both communities and the environment.
These laboratories are part of Etcétera’s fellowship project, NEO-EXTRA-ACTIVISM - Protocols for Buen Vivir, which analyzes the current neocolonial character of extractivism, including through what the collective refers to as “cognitive extractivism”: the extraction of knowledge and social imagination. The notion of “Good Living” is at the core of their practice and proposition for creating art, culture, and knowledge through non-extractivist approaches that are informed by Indigenous and other communal perceptions of life.
With its distinct sense of humor, and in true “errorist spirit,” Buenos Aires-based Etcétera organizes NO WORK, NO SHOP using performative elements, sounds, video interviews, animations, and other interventions, conjuring an environment where ideas and processes of resisting and imagining beyond the neo-extractivist model can be heard, seen, and felt. Subsequent iterations of Etcétera’s fellowship project will continue with performances, actions, video, correspondences, and laboratories deployed in different territories and temporalities through Spring 2022. The resulting collection of materials, stories, thoughts, images, and actions will help to raise new protocols for Buen Vivir.
The program features simultaneous English and Spanish interpretation.
Please register for each day on the individual page:
NO WORK, NO SHOP: Socio Environmental Imagination and Pedagogies of Action is presented by the Vera List Center for Art and Politics at The New School, the first chapter of a two-year project by Argentinian collective and VLC Boris Lurie Fellow Etcétera. It is part of the VLC’s two-year focus theme As for Protocols and generously supported, in part, by the Boris Lurie Art Foundation.
Presented by the Vera List Center for Art and Politics at the Schools of Public Engagement.