New project in collaboration with WHITEBOX@GREENBOX

ISLA is proud to present Expanded Narratives on Art and Ecology, a new ISLA in collaboration with WhiteBox@GreenBox, unveiling a symbolic space that addresses issues like food sovereignty, rewilding, ecofeminisms, hydrofeminisms and restorative aesthetics. With a post- anthropocentric attitude, it researches, experiments, and builds knowledge around the Democracy of the Air, Earth, and Water.

GreenBox@WBX is an ongoing program focused on urban sustainability in the inner city, where WhiteBox serves the community by engaging its citizenry, particularly youth and working-class minorities. Based on equity, inclusion, and environmental justice, this new collaboration with ISLA presents a long-term bond with this innovative nonprofit initiative from Spain, seeding a local New York Platform to establish global networks to face the besieging ecosocial crisis both internationally and locally, including the urban communities in the beleaguered enclave of the Lower East Side of Manhattan.

However, ISLA is also a physical environment (located in Robledo de Chavela, Madrid, Spain) and a realm of reflection and praxis, which operates as a think-action-tank for the development and production of ideas around art and ecology. GreenBox, joins the ISLA project archipelago to begin a long-term-bridge relationship ISLA and rethink the fundamental role of the visual arts to create, speculate and fable about new possibilities and alternatives to face the ecological and climate emergency.

This project is proposed as a place to open critical spaces of dialogue and interaction to embrace improbable connections and help shape that ideal world we aim to inhabit. The works that comprise this project propose an ecocentric view that speaks of awakening new forms in the ecopolitical imagination to experiment alongside other modes of coexistence and point to the ideal of “good living” as a collective project based on ecodependence and interdependence as sine qua non conditions to inhabit the world.