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extrodæsia
Enoiklopédia
egy emberközpontúságot
meghaladó világhoz az ne
ryporex
Figure 6. The inside of the book Extrodaesia and the poster of the exhibition
Unstable State of Things. Source: http://xtrorealm.hu
and climate crisis (to an ecological fam, former bauxite mine, forest reserve, the
migrating dunes of the Great Plain)”. They published a bilingual (Hungarian, Eng¬
lish) book (2019), Extrodaesia. Encyclopedia for a World Superseding Anthropocentrism.
The aim of the book is to present the knowledge gathered during the earlier
projects, to provide philosophical-theoretical texts, literary and artistic works for
an all-round interpretation of the Anthropocene. It is not a customary encyclopedia
but rather an attempt to interpret basic concepts of the discourse on climate change
with theoretical definitions, poems and graphic works. The authors take Extrodaesia
to mean “a transmedial work in which various layers of knowledge enter into
dialogue with each other.””
‘Together with other artists (András Cséfalvay, Tamás Kaszás, Kata Dóra Kiss, Csilla
Nagy, Ádám Ulbert), the group xtro realm composed a project for the Off Biennial
Budapest 2021, the ACLIM! Climate Imagination Agency (https://aclim.hu/) and its
exhibition at the Atelier Pro Arts Gallery.” They described their project as follows:
“Can we grasp the ecological crisis via local phenomena? What knowledge can
an ecological network researcher, an environmental psychologist and an artist
represent together? How can this help us to comprehend our present and the
possible future? Answers to such and similar questions are the objective of
ACLIM! Climate Imagination Agency founded by the artistic group xtro realm.
The research-based works and transdisciplinary theoretical materials in the
institution elaborate on the most pressing ecological issues.
It is more and more urgent to seek local perspectives and alternative images
of the future to reinterpret our situation under the threat of the climate crisis.
Whether humankind survives is only one of the questions; the social frames in
which we will survive is also questionable. The economic and political interests
causing the exploitation of the ecosystem are not only responsible for the
ruination of our habitat, but they also constrain the faculty of social imagination
On this, see: Siiveges Rita 2020: Beyond the Postcard: an Ecocritical Inquiry on Images of Nature.
http://mezosfera.org/beyond-the-postcard:-an-ecocritical-inquiry-on-images-of-nature/
https://dunszt.sk/2020/08/08/extrodaesia-enciklopedia-eligazodni-egy-emberkozpontusagot¬
meghaladni-vagyo-vilagban/?fbclid=IwAR0oyUMMa4Hx-AWcLEOX5MPITIRWtyw76xCi¬
5mFK9kxSl4rEsxRCP5m0-U
https://archive.offbiennale.hu/2021/projects/aclim.html.
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