This chapter explores how arts-based pedagogies can provide an education for thinking with death in an age of multispecies extinction events. Working with the notion of “dying with,” which emphasizes the relational nature of death and its role as a premise for response, it draws on Daisy Hildyard’s concept of the “second body” to address human-related effects on distant peoples and places—effects that often unfold across spaces and times beyond human perception. Conceptually, it is argued that the conjunction between the second body and dying-with can account for macroscale devastations embedded in our everyday embodied lives. Pinar Yoldas’ artwork Hollow Ocean is mobilized as a pedagogical tool to animate this concept and is analyzed for its capacity to evoke an affective and sensory encounter with death and extinction. In inviting audiences to consider their interconnection within a complex space of species death and ecosystem depletion, Hollow Ocean offers a present encounter with a future oceanic condition, making a distinct call for action and education to confront our contemporary ecological crisis. Concluding remarks show how multimodal and immersive artworks might foster educational conversations about death, and new ways for engaging pedagogically with it, and imagining it beyond a single-species vision of life.

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Dying-With

  • Juliette Clara Bertoldo

摘要

This chapter explores how arts-based pedagogies can provide an education for thinking with death in an age of multispecies extinction events. Working with the notion of “dying with,” which emphasizes the relational nature of death and its role as a premise for response, it draws on Daisy Hildyard’s concept of the “second body” to address human-related effects on distant peoples and places—effects that often unfold across spaces and times beyond human perception. Conceptually, it is argued that the conjunction between the second body and dying-with can account for macroscale devastations embedded in our everyday embodied lives. Pinar Yoldas’ artwork Hollow Ocean is mobilized as a pedagogical tool to animate this concept and is analyzed for its capacity to evoke an affective and sensory encounter with death and extinction. In inviting audiences to consider their interconnection within a complex space of species death and ecosystem depletion, Hollow Ocean offers a present encounter with a future oceanic condition, making a distinct call for action and education to confront our contemporary ecological crisis. Concluding remarks show how multimodal and immersive artworks might foster educational conversations about death, and new ways for engaging pedagogically with it, and imagining it beyond a single-species vision of life.