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Join us for a discussion of "We Are 'Nature' Defending Itself: Entangling Art, Action, and Autonomous Zones." This book club meeting is a part of Spill Paint Not Oil's week of programming culminating in interactive art shows for A Poem for Entangled Living at Watershed Arts and Ecology on March 28th-29th. We invite you to join us and this event and other events that week as we explore ways to engage collectively with the opposing forces shaping our world at the intersection of grief, art, and abolition.

About "We Are 'Nature' Defending Itself":

In 2008, as the storms of the financial crash blew, Isabelle Fremeaux and Jay Jordan deserted the metropolis and their academic jobs, traveling across Europe in search of post-capitalist utopias. They wanted their art activism to no longer be uprooted.

They arrived at a place French politicians had declared lost to the republic, otherwise know as the zad (the zone to defend): a messy but extraordinary canvas of commoning, illegally occupying 4,000 acres of wetlands where an international airport was planned. In 2018, the 40-year-long struggle snatched an incredible victory, defeating the airport expansion project through a powerful cocktail that merged creation and resistance.

Fremeaux and Jordan blend rich eyewitness accounts with theory, inspired by a diverse array of approaches, from neo-animism to revolutionary biology, insurrectionary writings and radical art history.