The Swamp Potential
The Swamp Potential

ed. by Lisa Marie Sneijder ; guest ed. by Robbie Schweiger, Suzie van Staaveren ; contr. by ZAKOLE Collective, Simone Delaney, Sofía Fernández Blanco …[et al.]

Author(s)
ZAKOLE Collective, Simone Delaney, Sofía Fernández Blanco, Moss Berk, Katerina Sidorova / Yulia Carolin Kothe / Max Brück, Isabel Cavenecia, Djuna O’Neill, Andrey Shental, Goof Buijs
Editor(s)
Lisa Marie Sneijder, Robbie Schweiger, Suzie van Staaveren
Publication
Amsterdam : VU Faculteit der Letteren, 2025
Scope
118 Pages, illustrated, 23 cm.
Carrier
magazine
ISBN
9789083165790

Going beyond the swamp’s ecological potential as carbon sinks and buffer zones between land and water in times of climate crisis, this issue of Kunstlicht positions swamps as entities, spaces, and communities where complexity, interspecies interdependence, and relationality take precedence over human domination and productivity. Contributions to this issue under- score the swamp’s potential as a disruptive, polychronic space, resisting linear time and capitalist notions of progress. They explore how swamps preserve mythologies and provide material evidence that past and present, life and death are interconnected, and offer alternative ways of grieving and co-existing. Swamps, as spaces where many worlds fit, invite us to rethink our relationship with the environment, embracing uncertainty and doubt as generative forces for transformative thought.


Person as subject
Isabel Cavenecia, Katerina Sidorova
Keywords
nature
Location
Cabinet 11 - 4: Antropoceen
Remarks
Includes notes