ART AND ETHICS

Ivan Magrin-Chagnolleau

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Vol.8 | 2025

DOSSIER

Editorial: Ethics in Motion – Art as Inquiry, Memory, and Resistance
Ivan Magrin-Chagnolleau

Part I: Ecologies of Perception and Practice

Marcher léger. Immersion, observation, co-suscitations
Benjamin Arnault
A poetic and philosophical reflection on walking as an ecological, aesthetic, and ethical gesture.

Designing Through the Body: Embodied Ethics and Multispecies Perspectives in Design Practice
Ceren Ozgen
A multispecies design perspective that centers embodied ethics and environmental justice.

Biofeedback Art Meditation to Strengthen Sense Making for Global Challenges
Krisztián Hofstädter
Explores how brain-computer interfacing and meditative states can foster ecological and social empathy.

L’animisme négro-africain : l’exploitation poétique et l’idéologie écologiste comme un au-delà de l’adoration
Metou Kane & Hermand Abel Dedo 
Reclaims animist cosmologies as ecological and poetic frameworks of resistance and care.

Part II: Memory, Mourning, and the Ethics of Representation

Eating Shame: A Tribute to Cherry Smyth’s Famished
Emer Lyons
A poetic and performative engagement with Irish famine memory and the ethics of re-membering.

Impasses des politiques de la mémoire dans les actions de deuil de Doris Salcedo
Rafaela Alves Fernandes
Examines the ethical and political stakes of public mourning in Colombia.

Redressing Naked Dave: Defending Dave Stevens by Challenging Laura Molina’s Unethical and Exploitative Artistic Practices
William J. Lorenzo
A critical analysis of revenge, consent, and the ethics of representation in contemporary art.

Part III: Embodiment, Alterity, and Artistic Praxis

Quelques situations ordinaires d’usages des corps avec éthique
Marie Julie
Investigates artistic practices that engage the body as a site of ritual, alterity, and ethical encounter.

Art as a catalyst for ethical reflection on death, postmortem procedures/practices and curation of human remains in museums
Halina Suwalowska
Explores how interdisciplinary art projects open new ethical spaces around death, autopsy, and museum practices.

Part IV: Aesthetics of Violence and Ethical Disruption

L’expérience artistique de la violence : essai philosophique sur la nature éthique d’une représentation de l’extrême
Florentin Groh
A philosophical inquiry into the ethics of representing violence in art.

Interview

Interview with Stephen Nachmanovitch, violinist and author of Free Play
Ivan Magrin-Chagnolleau