Ignacio Acosta and May-Britt Öhman writing contribution to peer-reviwed article edited by Chiara Sgarmella.
The impact of wildfires in Sweden, commonly claimed to be caused by climate change, has recently become a national and international concern. The overall aim of the inter-and supradisciplinary research project presented in this article is to analyse, document and draw attention to the local and Indigenous/Sámi stewardship of land, with specific regard to fire management, drought, and other aspects of climate change. The project situated within the growing field of Indigenous Land Based Education and Knowledge (Wildcat et al., 2014). The project brings together the disciplines of artistic research and visual documentation with the history of technology and science, environmental history, feminist technoscience, gender research and Indigenous methodologies as well as Sámi knowledge. Based on the methods available within these research disciplines, the project uses extensive fieldwork, archival research.
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Acosta written contribution to the publication by artist Mabe Bethonico presented at the Biennale Architettura 2021, in Venice.
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Ignacio Acosta and Arts Catalysts published a article in magazine that publishes work related to human-computer interaction.
What is the global impact of accelerated economic growth? What is the environmental and social impact of intensified growth in the tech sector and the continued proliferation of technologies that are ubiquitous in contemporary life?
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Xavier Ribas, Louise Purbrick and Ignacio Acosta peer-reviewed article edied by Grayson Cooke (SCU) and Sally Babidge.
Trafficking the Earth documents the extraction of copper and nitrate from the Atacama Desert, Chile, and the accumulation of their values in metropolitan sites, the City of London and the houses of the British merchants in particular. Presented here as a photo-essay, it juxtaposes words and images to create constellations of meaning intended to disrupt a linear narrative of a past running smoothly into the present. The essay draws upon and tries to demonstrate a documentary practice that captures the collisions of time and the connected spaces of copper and nitrate mining as exemplary of an extractivist economy. The subject of the photography is the surplus of mining, its ruins, rubble and waste, which is offered not as a straightforward set of pictures but rather as perspectives through which the effects of global capitalism can be understood.
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Xavier Ribas, Louise Purbrick and Ignacio Acosta publication on the occasion of the exhibition Trafficking the Earth at the Museo de Arte Contemporáneo [MAC], Santiago, Chile (08.09.2017 – 12.11.2017) and the symposium Visuality, Materiality and Mining held on the 08.09.2017.
This publication is conceived as a ‘folded exhibition’ and distributed among environmental activists, pressure groups, lawyers and school teachers in mining communities in Chile. Followed by an introductory statement, the publication contains 49 photographs and 7 texts elements from the exhibition piece.
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Zine publication on the occassion of the exhibition Coquimbo & Swansea at the National Waterfront Museum of Swansea.
From the late 1820s, copper ore was extracted from the Region of Coquimbo, northern Chile and smelted in the Lower Swansea Valley, Wales. Copper was mined from remote sites and brought by mule to Las Compañias. One of Chile’s first industrial metallurgical centres and where smelting processes had been established. The ore and partly-smelted copper was shipped to the Lower Swansea Valley to be refined. The valley was heavily contaminated for more than two centuries, until the1960s and 1970s when conservation work was carried out to reclaim polluted land.
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Zine publication with photographs resulting from fieldwork in Chuquicamata old tow on 20 September 2012 that document fragmentation and disintegration of the mining town.
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Research on gated communities is moving away from the hard concept of a ‘gated community’ to the more fluid one of urban gating. The latter allows communities to be viewed through a new lens of soft boundaries, modern communication and networks of influence.
The book, written by an international team of experts, builds on the research of Bagaeen and Uduku’s previous edited publication, Gated Communities (Routledge 2010) and relates recent events to trends in urban research, showing how the discussion has moved from privatised to newly collectivised spaces, which have been the focal point for events such as the Occupy London movement and the Arab Spring.
Communities are now more mobilised and connected than ever, and Beyond Gated Communities shows how neighbourhoods can become part of a global network beyond their own gates. With chapters on Australia, Canada, Europe, South America, Asia, Africa and the Middle East, this is a truly international resource for scholars and students of urban studies interested in this dynamic, growing area of research.
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