2017 — Artist talk and roundtable, Arts Catalyst, London

Artist talk and roundtable
Conflicted minerals and artistic practices
Artist talk and roundtable
Arts Catalyst, London
5 April 2017

Invited to present Copper Geographies at a workshop that explored different ways in which artistic and cultural practices contribute to our understanding of the relationship between geological natural resources (their extraction and distribution) and conflict on multiple scales.

The workshop brought together artists, curators, film-makers and researchers that focus their practices on regions and communities where concentrations of natural critical materials – raw materials deemed essential by states for industry, technology and sustainable energy – are entwined with histories of conflict. The event enquires how can different modes of transdisciplinary research address complex systems of visual, cultural, societal, technological, ecological, economic and political forces? What type of aesthetics and conceptual approaches can narrate these contemporary global realities? What role do artists, film-makers and art academics play as active agents in the multidisciplinary discourse around the Anthropocene?

Link to workshop
Link to audio recording of the Conflict Minerals Workshop

Filed under: news

About the Author

Posted by

Im a Chilean born, London based visual artist and researcher.