WORLD OF MATTER – ON THE GLOBAL ECOLOGIES OF RAW MATERIAL
Posted on by Ursula Biemann
Exhibition: March 1 - June 22, 2014
Opening: Friday, February 28, 7 pm
Exhibition tour by Emily E. Scott : March 1, 4 pm
HMKV Dortmund – Hartware Media Art/Medienkunstverein
Exhibition link
First of a series of exhibitions resulting from our multiyear research endeavor. The artworks on display are the result of extensive field research addressing various situations of heightened material significance: Gold mining in Brazil, oil extraction from Canada’s tar sands, rice and cotton growing in Southeast Asia, land reclamation in Egypt, fishery in the North Sea, the sugar trade in Nigeria and coal mining in the Ruhr.
“World of Matter” introduces a geopolitical dimension to art and ecology by bringing these territories, actors, and ideas into contact and stimulating a variety of potential readings about the global connectivity among these sites.
Kurator : Inke Arns
Mabe Bethônico, Ursula Biemann, Elaine Gan, Uwe H. Martin & Frauke Huber, Peter Mörtenböck & Helge Mooshammer, Emily Eliza Scott, Paulo Tavares, Lonnie van Brummelen & Siebren de Haan.
The exhibition in Dortmund is scheduled to travel in 2014-15 to partner institutions in New York, Montreal, Minneapolis and Stockholm.
A publication (in English, with contributions by TJ Demos, Timothy Morton, Gavin Bridge, the contributing artists, and others) will accompany the exhibition and provide extensive background information. Its release will coincide with the opening of “World of Matter” at the James Gallery at City University of New York (CUNY) Graduate Center, in September 2014.
The exhibition World of Matter is generously funded by the German Federal Cultural Foundation, Pro Helvetia, Schweizer Kulturstiftung, Kulturbüro Stadt Dortmund, Dortmunder U, Ministerium für Familie, Kultur und Sport des Landes Nordrhein-Westfalen
