| Title: | Hydro-ecological avant-garde : toward a situated aesthetics of the Northern Adriatic |
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| Authors: | ID Pranjić, Kristina (Author) |
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| Files: |  URL - Source URL, visit https://ejournals.eu/en/journal/przeglad-kulturoznawczy/article/hydro-ecological-avant-garde-toward-a-situated-aesthetics-of-the-northern-adriatic
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| Language: | English |
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| Typology: | 1.01 - Original Scientific Article |
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| Organization: |  ZRC SAZU - The Research Centre of the Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts
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| Abstract: | This article introduces the concept of the “hydro-ecological avant-garde” as an ecofeminist and ecocritical approach to art history and visual culture studies, developed from the perspective of the Northern Adriatic. It approaches the Adriatic Sea not only as a geographical reality but also as an epistemic and methodological space, foregrounding the material agency of water, relational aesthetics, and more-than-human epistemologies. By situating avant-garde practices across the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, the study reconsiders Western and Eurocentric narratives that have marginalized East-Central European experimental avant-garde art, highlighting how ecological fragility, shifting borders, and cultural entanglements shaped experimental visual cultures. While the broader project combines archival research, art, cultural history, and digital cartography, the article contributes a conceptual and historiographical reframing, drawing on posthuman and feminist materialist theory, as well as environmental and blue humanities. Its transversal approach unfolds across three periods marked by crisis – the interwar avant-garde, the post-World War II neo-avant-garde, and contemporary eco-art – organized into three clusters: “Adriatic Mythopoetics,” “More-than-Human Engagements,” and “Resistance to Extractivism.” These clusters trace how artists mobilized water as metaphor, method, and environment to articulate ecological and feminist concerns, cultivate multispecies accountability, and resist extractive and normative visual regimes. The article positions the Adriatic as an active agent in visual history rather than a passive context, suggesting how peripheral archives and eco-situated practices generate alternative geneal ogies of the avant-garde. In doing so, it lays conceptual ground for an eco-aesthetic framework that integrates spatial and ecological dimensions into art studies, advancing a hydro-epistemological critique grounded in situated aesthetics. |
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| Keywords: | Adriatic sea, situated aesthetics, ecofeminism, ecological art history, East-Central European avant-garde, blue humanities |
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| Publication status: | Published |
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| Publication version: | Version of Record |
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| Publication date: | 16.12.2025 |
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| Year of publishing: | 2025 |
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| Number of pages: | str. 477-492 |
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| Numbering: | Nr. 4 (66) |
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| PID: | 20.500.12556/DiRROS-28363  |
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| UDC: | 7.036/.038 |
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| ISSN on article: | 2084-3860 |
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| DOI: | 10.4467/20843860PK.25.036.22964 |
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| COBISS.SI-ID: | 270849539 |
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| Copyright: | Imetniki avtorskih pravic na prispevkih so avtorji |
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| Note: | Nasl. z nasl. zaslona;
Opis vira z dne 8. 3. 2026;
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| Publication date in DiRROS: | 14.03.2026 |
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| Views: | 48 |
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| Downloads: | 25 |
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