It is our great pleasure to invite you all to join us for The Eco- and Bioart Lab Hybrid Seminar “Moving Images and Ecologies of Extractive Violence” with speaker Dr Salomé Lopes Coelho (Utrecht University, NL) and respondent Dr mirko nikolić (Södertörn University, SE).

The event takes place on 1st April 2026 at 10:15 – 11:45 CEST in the room FAROS, Tema building, Campus Valla, Linköping, and on Zoom.

In order to join us via Zoom, please REGISTER: https://bit.ly/4lhHfXc

Moving Images and Ecologies of Extractive Violence

Abstract:

Lithium permeates human and planetary energies, from regulating moods to powering the batteries of a so-called green future, embodying stories of promise while remaining anchored in continuous extractive violences that deplete human and more-than-human worlds. This presentation focuses on the affordances of moving image practices across the ecologies of this extractive violence, with an attention to lithium, through film curatorial work, image-making and analysis -from experimental documentaries and investigative cinema to science communication films. I ask how moving images articulate the material, temporal, and affective rhythms of lithium extraction, and how they trace connections to other histories of violence, including colonialism and imperialism. I also consider how they intervene in these ecologies of violence, enacting temporalities, relations, and forms of life that contest extraction while opening aesthetic and political terrains for imagining post-extractivist worlds.

BIO:

Salomé Lopes Coelho is a postdoctoral researcher at Utrecht University, working at the intersections of cinema, aesthetics, and environmental humanities. She holds a PhD in Artistic Studies from NOVA University Lisbon, where she was a visiting assistant professor and a postdoctoral research fellow focusing on experimental cinema by Latin American women filmmakers. She currently curates the year-long programme Moving [Images] Post-Extractivist in Utrecht.

mirko nikolić, PhD, works between performance, audiovisual and text-based art practice, political ecology and environmental humanities, with a focus on the intersections of environmental, climate and social justice. He/they research and publish on extractivism and alternatives, just transitions, environmental philosophy. The recent book To friends, upstream and downstream, downwind and upwind (2025) uses a blend of autoethnographic and documentary poetic writing as a mode of environmental history-writing. Currently, he/they work as a researcher at the School of Culture and Education, Södertörn University exploring poetry workshop as a form of climate action.

The seminar forms part of the CRITICAL ECOLOGIES event series, organised as part of the ECO-GRIEF research project, funded by FORMAS: A Swedish Research Council for Sustainable Development.

Post image: Mining Watch Portugal / Unsplash (c)

Image included in the poster: I Mourn for Mountains, 2023, Paula König.