Curated by Arts Catalist and University’s CREAM .
A two-day gathering at the University of Westminster that brought together artists, academics, activists and human rights experts to collectively explore the politics of extraction across the globe and the role that its operations played on environmental, ecopolitical and societal levels. Through talks, workshops and roundtable discussions, over two days the partciplants delved into multiple case studies that exposed the entanglements between extractive violence, financial networks and poisonous infrastructures. Together they explored different forms of resistance, particularly those that seek to carve out spaces of autonomy and solidarity where the structural violence enacted through the exploitation of natural resources – of minerals, labour and cultures – can be countered.
Participants included Ignacio Acosta, Lise Autogena, Bobby Banerjee, Suzanne Dhaliwal, FRAUD (Audrey Samson and Francisco Gallardo), Gaia Foundation, Que Kenny, London Mining Network, Margarida Mendes, Ainhoa Montoya, Rachel O’Reilly, Pluriversal Radio, Louise Purbrick, Xavier Ribas, Sim Chi Yin, Elena Solis (Ecologistas en Acción), Jol Thomson, and Neal White.
The Extractable Matters Assembly was coordinated with Professor Neal White, co-director of the Centre for Research and Education in Art and Media (CREAM). The Assembly was organised in partnership with Arts Catalyst, non-profit contemporary arts organisation that commissions and produces transdisciplinary art and research. The Assembly is part of Resistance Labs, a series of discursive events, workshops and broadcasts that bring to the forefront existing forms of solidarity between various anti-mining movements in the context of Ignacio Acosta’s exhibition Tales from the Crust at Arts Catalyst in Kings Cross.
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