Joya: OREA
an ongoing resistant ecological archive / a database for participating artists
OREA: is a continuous database designed for artists participating in Joya: AiR's residency program. It serves as a platform for them to explore interconnected local and global networks in the realms of ecology and cultural production.
Orea is a multilayered word that means beautiful in Greek, breeze in Latin while recalling the Spanish verb “orear” which translates in “to air” or “to get some fresh air”.
The primary objective of this archive is to furnish tools and inspiration encompassing academic research, fieldwork, rewilding initiatives, as well as intersectional and ecofeminist perspectives, spanning from institutional to underground realms. The foundational principle of sharing knowledge as a form of resistance is central to this evolving archive, fostering connections among like-minded individuals and contributing to the continual growth of the JOYA community.
Aspirations for the future include expanding the OREA archive to encompass a broader range of diverse perspectives and contributions. Additionally, there is a commitment to enhancing collaboration and engagement within the JOYA community, fostering a dynamic space for ongoing dialogue and knowledge-sharing. The goal is to continually evolve and enrich the archive, making it a dynamic resource that reflects the ever-changing landscape of ecological and cultural discourse.
This database has been compiled by associate curator Chiara Petrola (November 2023) For those interested in contributing to the archive, proposals for additions are welcomed, and you can reach out to pitrolachiara(at)gmail.com. The archive will undergo periodic curation and updates to ensure its relevance and depth.
ARCHITECTURE / RESEARCH
Radical Research & Re-storying Agency (Amsterdam, NL)
RRA is an architectural-research agency grounded in the decolonial methodologies of re-contextualizing space and revealing the multiple stories that create the world.
Forensic Architecture (London, UK)
https://forensic-architecture.org/
Forensic Architecture investigate human and environmental rights violation employing techniques in spatial and architectural analysis.
INTERNATIONAL NETWORKS /RESIDENCIES / COLLECTIVES
Art tech nature culture
ATNC is a global community of practice for creative experimenters engaged in ecological worlds across disciplines. learn more & get involved here.
Ainin Artists in Nature International Network
Ainin explores place as a concept which incorporates the environment and the people who engage with it.
European Rewilding Network
https://rewildingeurope.com/european-rewilding-network/
The objective of European Rewilding Network (ERN) is to bring initiatives closer together, empowering each network member with the information and tools to be more successful in their rewilding endeavours.
Rewilding Cultures
https://rewildingcultures.net/
The Rewilding Cultures (RC) project is centered around exploring innovative approaches to production, inclusivity, and environmental considerations at the intersection of the arts, science, and technology.
Genmeda (Italy/Greece)
Genmeda is a network of mediterranean plant conservation centres.
Restor
Restor is a global network of actors that collaborate to promote restoration. Restor brings these actors together to enable the exchange of data, funds and local knowledge. You confined Joya AiR on the Restor platform here…
Ife Collective (Vicenza, IT)
https://www.instagram.com/ife.collective/?hl=en
Curatorial collective investigating the rural and local agricultural practices through an artistic lens.
Neutopica (Milan/Nomadic — Italy)
Neutopica promotes localized and temporary utopias, creating experimental and collaborative formats of transdisciplinary art residencies in disused places and marginal areas.
Robida
https://robidacollective.com/about
Robida’s main mission is to rethink the possibilities of cultural work in the post-rural areas, which were once kept alive by agricultural production but were left behind by their inhabitants in the process of modern urbanisation.
Sympoietic Society
https://www.instagram.com/sympoieticsociety/
A pan-European group of artists, designers, curators, and researchers working on posthuman ecologies.
The sustainable institution
https://www.sustainable-institution.com/
The sustainable institution is an international symposium series, interdisciplinary artist residency and digital toolkit.
Invisibledrum
Invisibledrum is an international and transdisciplinary research platform investigating animism and spiritual technologies within the field of arts and social-ecological systems.
GTA
https://globaltapestryofalternatives.org/
Global Tapestry of Alternatives seeks to build bridges between networks of Alternatives around the globe and promotes the creation of new processes of confluence.
Weaving Realities
http://www.weavingrealities.com/index.html
Weaving Realities intends to interweave alternative ways of relating to the world other than exploitation, appropriation or consumption, by using art as a platform.
The Institute of Queer Ecology
The Institute of Queer Ecology (IQECO) is an ever-evolving collaborative organism that seeks to bring peripheral solutions to environmental degradation to the forefront of public consciousness.
Fossil Free Culture (NL)
Fossil Free Culture is establishing a platform committed to imagine, practice, and build post-extractive cultures.
BlueCity Lab (Rotterdam, NL)
https://www.bluecity.nl/blue-city-lab
Blue City Lab is where entrepreneurs can start researching and validating a product or process that will contribute to the transition to the circular economy.
SPAIN NETWORKS
The Institute for Postnatural Studies (Madrid, Spain)
https://www.instituteforpostnaturalstudies.org/
The Institute for Postnatural Studies is a center for artistic experimentation from which to explore and problematize postnature as a framework for contemporary creation.
FESTIVALS
Creatures Festival (Sevilla, Spain)
https://creatures-eu.org/festival/
CreaTures explores the power of creative practices to move the world towards sustainable futures.
Sonic Acts
An interdisciplinary arts organisation based in Amsterdam.
Collective Wasteland Festival
https://www.collectivewasteland.nl/
Transdisciplinary Festival on Waste Ecologies
•Fiber Festival
FIBER weaves together the process and practice of audiovisual artists and electronic musicians to broaden perspectives on a rapidly-evolving world. Through a whirling programme of artistic interventions, sonic performances and pivotal talks, we provide a crucial space for interaction and knowledge exchange. Fiber’s LABs in particular are crucial transdisciplinary meeting places exploring urgent ecological matters.
MAPS
More-than-Human Dérive
https://more-than-human-derive.net/map.html
More-than-Human Dérive interweaves more-than-human stories and perspectives to imagine our shared feral futures.
Nature Map Earth
Nature Map Earth developed an integrated global map of biodiversity, carbon storage, and clean water supply to support countries to integrate nature and climate in decision making and promote nature-based solutions.
BOOKS
The Rural (Whitechapel: Documents of Contemporary Art)
https://www.amazon.com/Rural-Whitechapel-Documents-Contemporary-Art/dp/0262537168
An investigation through texts, interviews, and documentation of the complex relationship between the urban, the rural, and contemporary cultural production.
Chtulhu Books (Madrid, Spain)
Cthulhu Books is an editorial platform by Institute for Postnatural Studies. It brings together reflections and worlds that derive from distinct perspectives, emerging new ways of talking about nature and suggesting malleable relationships between words and what they describe.
Open Humanities Press (London, UK)
http://www.openhumanitiespress.org/
OHP is an international community of scholars, editors and readers with a focus on critical and cultural theory that takes advantage of the global reach and relative inexpense of internet publishing to make peer-reviewed scholarly materials freely available. They have extensive publications on ecology and environmental humanities.
SELECTED BOOKS IN JOYA’S PHYSICAL LIBRARY
Flourish by Sarah Ichioka, Michael Pawlyn
A book on design paradigms for our planetary emergency.
The Renewable Energy Handbook by William Kemp
https://www.amazon.com/Renewable-Energy-Handbook-Comprehensive-Independent/dp/1505383617
A guide to rural energy independence, off-grid and sustainable living.
Being Ecological by Timothy Morton
A book about ecology without information dumping, guilt inducing, or preaching to the choir.
Sewage solutions by Nick Grant, Mark Moodie, Chris Weedon
A book that answers the call of nature.
A handbook of gravity-flow water systems by Thomas D. Jordan Jnr.
https://archive.org/details/fa_Handbook_of_Gravity-Flow_Water_Systems
A book that collects all the knowledge, theory and practices necessary for the surveying, designing and construction of gravity-flow drinking water systems for rural communities.
Water for every farm by P.A. Yeomans
This book talks about Keyline: an ordered set of principles, techniques and systems. When fully utilised Keyline Designs produces strategies and tactics to develop the natural or existing landscape through regeneration and enhancement.
Almeria: Arquitectura Tradicional
https://www.marcialpons.es/libros/arquitectura-tradicional/9788481084115/
A book on traditional architecture in Almeria.
El Viento y El Agua en la Construcción de un Paisaje Cultural by Juan Manuel Becerra García
A book on the Natural Park of Cabo de Gata-Níjar y de la Comarca de los Vélez (Almería)
Permaculture by David Holmgren
A book on principles and pathways beyond sustainability by the co-originator of the permaculture concept.
Off the Grid by Lori Ryker
A book on modern homes and alternative energy.
Arquitectura y Tecnologia popular en Almeria by Antonio Gil Albarracin
https://www.marcialpons.es/libros/arquitectura-y-tecnologia-popular-en-almeria/9788488538710/
A book on popular technology and architecture in Almeria.
Cortijos, Haciendas y Lagares
This publication contains the results of the study-inventory carried out on agricultural architecture in the province of Almería. It begins with an introduction of the geographical, historical and architectural context of the area, continues with a selection of the most interesting buildings, and concludes with a record of all those visited.
MAGAZINES
Atmos
Atmos is an exploration of climate and culture, a nonprofit biannual magazine and digital platform curated by a global ecosystem of artists, activists, and writers devoted to ecological and social justice through creative storytelling.
Revive (France)
https://www.instagram.com/revuerevive/?hl=fr
Revive is a printed magazine for alternative, collective, and ecological ways of life initatied by Yaka. Yaka is an association that has been documenting alternative ways of living & of development around the world.
Emergence Magazine
https://emergencemagazine.org/
Emergence Magazine explores the threads connecting ecology, culture, and spirituality.
Ecoes
https://shop.sonicacts.com/product/ecoes-bundle-all-in-stock-issues/
An independent magazine about art in the age of pollution.
SPAIN: ON REWILDING & ECOLOGY
Rewilding Spain
https://rewilding-spain.com/en/rewilding-spain/
Rewinding Spain was born with the main purpose of promoting the recovery of nature and wildlife in Spain, as well as the conservation of wild landscapes based on natural processes and for the benefit of society. To achieve this goal, a Board of Trustees with experience in the Spanish context has been set up, and a work program adapted to the situation of conservation and the rural environment in Spain is being developed.
Rewilding Europe
https://rewildingeurope.com/landscapes/iberian-highlands/
For each rewilding landscape Rewilding Europe developed an inspiring vision that shows their ambition for the next ten years. Together with their local partners they work to make this vision a reality. Among others, in Spain they’re active on restoring the scavengers and the Iberian Lynx.
Centre for Forestry Research and Experimentation (CIEF) Valencia
http://www.genmeda.net/members/current_members/cief_valencia
The Centre for Forestry Research and Experimentation (CIEF) of the Valencian Region was created in 2005 by the Regional Government to boost research, development and innovation (R&D&I) initiatives and projects on forest and wild flora conservation.
National Center for Environmental Education
https://www.miteco.gob.es/content/dam/miteco/es/ceneam/quienes-somos/ceneam_english_tcm30-165579.pdf
The National Environmental Education Centre (CENEAM) is part of the Autonomous Entity regulating National Parks, part of the Ministry of the Environment and Rural and Marine Affairs. The centre’s mission is to increase awareness among citizens of their responsibility towards the environment, using environmental education to do so.
SER – Society for Ecological Restoration
https://ser-rrc.org/project/spain-ecological-restoration-of-monreal-springs-teruel/
Spain: Ecological Restoration of Monreal Springs (Teruel)
The Ecological Restoration of Monreal Springs (Teruel, NE Spain) project by SER was developed in order to recover wetland habitats and ecological functioning of this groundwater discharge system formed by a rosary of 50 springs and recover its connectivity with the Jiloca River as the water from these springs is the major source of water for the Jiloca River.
PAPERS / PROJECTS
Vulture repopulation in Spain
https://4vultures.org/blog/rewilding-spain-is-bringing-cinereous-vultures-back/
Feral Atlas
Feral Atlas invites you to explore the ecological worlds created when nonhuman entities become tangled up with human infrastructure projects
Flora y vegetación de la comarca de los Vélez (Almería)
Rewilding in Spain: Where is it Possible and Why is it Interesting? An Analysis From the Point of View of a Protected Area Manager
Rewilding or Landscape Conservation in Andalucía
https://www.medieval.eu/rewilding-or-landscape-conservation-in-andalusia/
In Andalucía, the dehesa landscape dominates. Situated in the interface between the rural and the natural, the question is whether the protection of the dehesas serves to protect the cultural heritage or the biodiversity
Abandonment and management in Spanish dehesa systems: Effects on soil features and plant species richness and composition.
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0378112708007603
An overview of the main water conflicts in Spain: Proposals for problem-solving
The Government of Spain approves the Third Cycle Hydrological Plans to modernise the management of water resources until 2027
https://www.lamoncloa.gob.es/lang/en/gobierno/councilministers/Paginas/2023/20230124_council.aspx
Fundacion Global Nature - Strategies for Ecological Restoration in Spain
https://fundacionglobalnature.org/portfolio/strategies-for-ecological-restoration-in-spain/?lang=en
Webinar on the current state of ecological restoration in Spain (2021)
Prioritizing areas for ecological restoration: A participatory approach based on cost-effectiveness
https://besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/1365-2664.14395
Fundación Biodiversidad
https://ieeb.fundacion-biodiversidad.es/content/guia-practica-de-restauracion-ecologica
Fundación Biodiversidad created a Practical Guide for Ecological Restoration.
Improving brown bear habitat in Spain through forest restoration actions
LOCAL RELIGION AND ECOLOGY
Praying for rain, resilience, and social stability in Murcia (southeast Spain)
https://ecologyandsociety.org/vol27/iss2/art9/
FEMINISMS AND ECOLOGY
The invisible thread: women as tradition keepers and change agents in Spanish pastoral social-ecological systems
https://ecologyandsociety.org/vol27/iss2/art4/
Black Feminist Ecological Thought: A Manifesto by Dr. Chelsea Mikael Frazier
https://atmos.earth/black-feminist-ecological-thought-essay/
Proposals for an ecofeminist model of development by Dina Garzon
https://revistaidees.cat/en/proposals-for-an-ecofeminist-model-of-development/
Spanish Ecofeminism
Françoise d’Eaubonne and the Imperfect Foundation of Ecofeminist Thought
WATER
Water in the Anthropocene conference (Bonn, 2013)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LvWPO_ZfIMM
A three-minute data visualisation communicating the scale at which humanity is now altering the global water cycle.
SAV - Servicio de Conservación de Ambientes Acuáticos Albufera
https://biodiversity.uma.es/wp-content/uploads/restoration_sites_web_opt.pdf
Incomplete overview of mediterranean ecosystem restoration sites.
Entre Rios (Mexico)
Entre Rios is a confluence of projects that explores continuities between bodies of water, human bodies and territories, recognizing rivers as active subjects that produce aesthetic forms, transform landscapes and shape memory.
River Commons (NL)
Riverhood and River Commons are both 5-year research projects that focus on enlivening rivers, river co-governance initiatives, and new water justice movements.
Spazio Hydro (IT)
https://www.instagram.com/spaziohydro/
HYDRO is a cultural center that promotes visual and performing arts, social research and civic cohesion. Cultivated as a community hub, it is the place where associations and individual citizens can express themselves, confront each other and find the right conditions to develop activities and projects, helping to improve the territory they inhabit.
Aquatic Encounters
https://www.instagram.com/aquaticencounters/
Aquatic Encounters: Art and Hydrofeminisms is a research project by Anastasia (A) Khodyreva and Elina Suoyrjö.
ECOLOGY PODCASTS
Serpentine Podcast
https://open.spotify.com/show/6VHRlx52JHw4poZKh5hPIY?si=3916e4453f68466b
Serpentine Podcast explores art and ideas for a changing world.
Undead Matter
https://open.spotify.com/show/2Lo5SYBLOuCzAWJDi448oe?si=1eeff9b2b0924f75
Entangled voices of geological ancestry, deep time and ever-turning matter
Ferment Radio
https://open.spotify.com/show/5MGJmYDRfAqDpwtqcfQEyy?si=26b1dbef0d014fe1
Ferment Radio features cutting-edge conversation on living interconnectivities: from visible to invisible, and from societal to cellular. Together with artists, activists, researchers, scientists, bakers, chefs, hackers, and people of the most diverse cultures and backgrounds, we look at things through a microbial eye to give legacy to unheard voices and peripheral perspectives.
Emergence Magazine Podcast
https://open.spotify.com/show/5YpLJHG91UvDVvq8xnajuT?si=fddb331c09004c65
Exploring the threads connecting ecology, culture and spirituality.
Arts and Ecology
https://open.spotify.com/show/0EK522dPp4YIfOukdwalI3?si=28e79115f196421f
A podcast about the vital role art and culture play in creating a regenerative future.
The Feminist Political Ecology Podcast
https://open.spotify.com/show/4PTneNvXbGlyT1XqppImKZ?si=7119f73dfe944661
The Feminist Political Ecology Podcast, presented by WEGO-ITN.org, is for those who believe in doing environmentalism, justice and feminism in a different way. Every episode they invite researchers, activists and professors in their network to discuss the most urgent and inspiring topics around feminist political ecology.