Interlude 01: Object-oriented Violence

Non-human Rights

Non-human Rights
Paulo Tavares

In the new Constitution of Ecuador (2008), Nature, as similar to human beings, is defined as a subject of law. This legal text challenges the ways by which modern-western societies conceive the material world, projecting a radical Universalist ethos based on the commonality between humans and non-humans.

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Interlude 01: Object-oriented Violence

Huaypetue, open-pit gold mine in southwest Amazonia, Madre de Dios River Basin, Peru. 

Interlude 01: Object-oriented Violence
Artist/Author: Paulo Tavares

Excerpts from interview with miner Simeon Guerra. Huaypetue’s crater sprawls over more then 100 square kilometers in an area formerly covered by pristine rainforest. 
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