Glimmers of Interspecies Resurgence in Public Art: A Reinterpretation of Joanna Rajkowska’s Oxygenator

Abstract

The article proposes a new, interspecies interpretation of Joanna Rajkowska’s Oxygenator. Read as what Anna Tsing calls latent commons and problematized through Chantal Mouffe’s concept of agonistic spaces, the canonical piece of public art is shown to have been an experimental site of more-than-human resurgence.

Keywords

• interspecies resurgence
• public art
• oxygenator
• urban ecosystems
• ecological aesthetics
• agonistic spaces
• latent commons