In this workshop, we 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.
We were interested in art, film-making, and research that focused 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. What modes of transdisciplinary research could address complex systems of visual, cultural, societal, technological, ecological, economic and political forces? What type of aesthetics and conceptual approaches could 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? We addressed these questions through a series of presentations by artists, curators and researchers, and conversation across our disciplines and practices.
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