Dossier 15-1:Arte, naturaleza y cascada trófica. Editora invitada: Beatriz Eugenia Díaz
Did we, as humans, get away from trophic networks? What is our relationship with nature? What do we call “natural”? Where are we located? At the top? We are undoubtedly, among living beings, the greatest predators on planet Earth. Today, we are facing devastation cascades produced by economic interests. However, ecological experiments, such as those in which trophic cascades have been provoked to recover the balance of ecosystems, fill us with hope. An example is Yellowstone National Park: twenty years after reintroducing a group fourteen wolves in an area where biodiversity was disappearing at an accelerated rate, the chain of events that unfolded in favor of the restoration of the area, is impressive. This dossier seeks to collect the reflections of those who pay attention to the works and the actions taken by artists (within the spheres of music, sound arts, visual arts, performing arts, hybrid arts) who, empathizing with nature and feeling that they are part of it, decide to adopt diversity as a positive force that allows them to establish friendly links with different life systems and who, aware that every action, however small and regardless of where it occurs, directly or indirectly affects everything as a whole, harbor the hope of producing effects similar to those of trophic cascades.