Three (or more) Ecologies - A Feminist Articulation of Eco-intersectionality Part I: For the World to Live, Patriarchy Must Die
By Angela Anderson
HD Video, Stereo, 37:00min, 2019

The way one relates to land, water and “resources” is reflected in the way one produces goods, relations and affinities. “Three (or more) Ecologies: A Feminist Articulation of Eco- intersectionality – Part I: For the World to Live, Patriarchy Must Die” juxtaposes the highly industrial/technical nature of the destructive fracking industry driving North Dakota’s Bakken shale oil boom on the Ft. Berthhold - Three Affiliated Tribes Reservation, with voices from Jinwar – Village of Free Women, a women’s collective agricultural village project in the autonomous region of Rojava (Northern Syria).

The first chapter of this audio-visual research project emphasizes the urgent necessity of redefining value in the face of economic models that are driving the current climate crisis and the ongoing disruption/destruction of ecosystems, with blatant disregard for the embodied knowledge these ecosystems cultivate and nourish. It calls into question capitalism’s unbridled accumulation, fostered by competition, inequality and exploitation, the undergirding of patriarchal society, and comes to a singular conclusion: For the world to live, patriarchy must die.

Angela Anderson is an artist and researcher working in the mediums of multi-channel video and sound installation, sculpture and photography. Through experimentation with audio-visual forms, she seeks to foster inter-species & inter-material solidarity from a queer feminist perspective. By creating cartographies of multiple materialities and temporalities, her work activates different ways of seeing and perceiving that challenge patriarchal, extractivist narratives, in a counter move to the flattening time of capitalism.

Her work has been shown in exhibitions and festivals internationally, including the 2022 Queer Porto Film Festival, the 2021 Kyiv Biennial, Taxispalais Kunsthalle Tirol, Pravo Ljudski Film Festival Sarajevo, Tallinn Photomonth Biennial, Holbaek Images (DK), the 2015 Thessaloniki Biennale, and as co-author in documenta 14. She holds an BA in Natural Resources and Economics from the University of Minnesota and an MA in Film and Media Studies from the New School in NYC. From 2008 to 2022 she was the exhibition designer for Forum Expanded at the Berlin International Film Festival. She is currently assistant professor for the class Virtual Realities at Kunsthochschule Kassel, a candidate in the PhD in Practice Program at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna, and an instructor at Bard College Berlin.