Joya: arte + ecología has invited contributions to the Joya: website in the form of esoteric essays. We all agreed to keep alive and hearten a conversation with past and potential resident artists. We looked for an iconoclastic chinwag, a discursive nosedive into art and ecological thinking and to perk up the tête-à-tête amongst convergent thinkers in an era of profound change.

We asked that contributions should be around the themes of aesthetics, ecology, pedagogy, water rising, activism, language, the Anthropocene, the 6th mass extinction, the built environment, painting, food, a change in the weather, autonomy, travel and doing the right thing. Or anything you like.

We would love it if you would like to contribute, full credits (obviously) plus links to wherever you like. No word limit beyond a minimum of 500.

El Relato #2 / Taïs Bean

"These texts are an ensemble of written and visual archives from a near future, a world in which human technology mark a clear divide between trans-humanists and trans-speciests.

Mind Upload Technology extends human life and promotes immortality as the ultimate achievement of our species. Its fervent supporters also consider that any other life forms is a ‘resource’ whose sole purpose is to benefit humans.

Meanwhile, The Human Institute for Trans-Species Studies has created a device enabling two way communication with any form of life, in the hope to establish a collaborative relationship with the rest of the living world

In this context, ’The Radical Animists’ are a group of activists ( made of plants, fungi, minerals, mammals, insects…) fighting for the dignity and respect of all Life in All its Forms, and raising awareness on the importance of death.

Today you can go through one of their review ‘The Radical Animists’, as well as archive documents from the Human Institute for Trans-Species Studies."

Taïs Bean