From Mars to Venus: Activism of the Future published in catalogue edited by Claudia Emmert, Jürgen Bleibler and Ina Neddermeyer.
In recent decades, the extraction of raw materials has increasingly developed into an ecological, economic, political, and social problem of global proportions. Large-scale mining operations and the exploitation of ecological and social systems are one of the most serious threats facing the environment today. In many places, the effects are catastrophic and yet the fight over resources continues unabated. Since the resources on Earth are finite, there is a constant search for new mining sites that sometimes seem surreal, such as with deep-sea mining and deep-space mining.
Into the deep takes a critical look at the history and presence of the extraction of resources, which are inextricably linked to environmental destruction and colonialism. The many-layered complexities of mining for raw materials in the deep sea and in space are examined, as well as forms of resistance and activism against the exploitation of people and the environment. Drawing on Friedrichshafen’s history of industrialism, the exhibition also focuses on the raw material aluminum, the metal of flight, which requires large amounts of energy to be extracted from the rock bauxite and not only causes environmental damage, but also produces the toxic waste product red mud.
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