Professor McClintock’s Participation at Lisbon Architectural Triennale

Anne McClintock, the A. Barton Hepburn Professor in the Program in Gender and Sexuality Studies and the High Meadows Environmental Institute, recently participated in the Seventh Lisbon Architecture Triennale, “How Heavy Is a City?”, for which she is an advisor. The Lisbon Triennale (Oct 2 – Dec 8) includes three exhibitions, Fluxes, Spectres and Lighter; as well as a three-day conference series; independent projects, and the book collection How Heavy is a City?, which includes McClintock’s work.

McClintock’s photo essay, Uncanny Kin and Earth System Animacies, rethinks cities as global processes interconnected with dynamic Earth systems and new forms of global kinship. Her photographs connect erupting volcanoes and melting glaciers in Iceland with rising waters in Louisiana. The essay appeared online in E-Flux Magazine, which hosted the Triennale essay series, was published in the Triennial book collection, How Heavy is a City?and is translated into Portuguese.

At the Trienniale, McClintock also gave a talk titled “Monster. A Fugue in Three Demonstrations,” which focused on the militarization and media cover-up of the BP Deepwater Horizon environmental disaster, as well as on the ecocide inflicted by the war in Gaza. McClintock’s talk was simultaneously projected via a new 3D media projection to an event in Vienna: “The Future of Demonstration Hothouse.” During the talk, she spoke with John Palmesino of Territorial Agency, curator of the Lisbon Triennale. This talk is also drawn from McClintock’s forthcoming book, Atlas of a Drowning World.