MOVING [IMAGES] POST-EXTRACTIVISM

EcoViolence is proud to announce MOVING [IMAGES] POST-EXTRACTIVISM, a year-long programme organised by Salomé Lopes Coelho, together with the Network for Environemental Humanities.

How can moving images reveal and refuse the ecologies of extractive violence? How can cinema enact post‑extractive world configurations?

This year-long programme focuses on moving images to think with and against contemporary regimes of extraction, seeking ways of living and organising that move beyond the continual devastation of territories and communities for the sake of so-called resources and development.

The programme unfolds through:

Lab | Post-Extractive Assemblies

Initiated by Salomé Lopes Coelho and Ana Robles Pérez (Royal Academy of Art, The Hague)

Monthly sessions aiming to create a collaborative space at the intersection of practices of theory and artistic practices. Participants are invited to bring “ongoing projects”—including archival fragments, short videos, photographs, texts, or concepts—centered on ecologies of violence, extractivism, and post-extractivist thought.

  • Mar 11 | Apr 23 | May 15 | Jun 18 | Jul 2 – 17:30 to 19:30
  • Utrecht University Library City Centre, Room E0.32. July session in Room E0.21

Film Series | Projecting Post-Extractivism

A series of films that trace extractivism as a colonial visual and political regime, from early industrial and corporate archives to contemporary mining and petro-capitalist violence, foregrounding Indigenous and community struggles and cinema as both an instrument of domination and a site of resistance.

  • Apr-June (details coming soon)

Workshop | Post‑Extractivist Propositions: Moving Images and Ecologies of Violence

Participants are invited to share essays, academic papers, and works such as visual essays, collaborative map‑breakings, speculative timelines, counter‑archives, or theoretical‑creative documents that gesture towards post‑extractivist futures.

  • October 8-9 (CFP coming soon)

Full programme and updates: www.movingimagespostextractivism.cargo.site

Led by Salomé Lopes Coelho

Part of Ecologies of Violence and the Network for Environmental Humanities, Utrecht University.

Graphic design: Ana Robles Pérez