Title & Author:

Image ecology / exhibition curators, Boaz Levin, Dr. Kathrin Schönegg ; editors, Boaz Levin, Dr. Kathrin Schönegg ; translations, Dr. Sylvia Zirden, Sylee Gore.

Edition:

First edition.
English edition.

Publication:

Berlin : C/O Berlin Foundation ; Leipzig : Spector Books, [2023]
©2023

Description:

153 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 24 cm

Notes:
Translated from the original German.
Limited edition of 850 copies.
On the occasion of an exhibition held at C/O Berlin, Amerika Haus, September 16, 2023 - January 18, 2024.
Includes bibliographical references.
Léa Habourdin -- Julian Charrière -- Tobias Zielony -- Tristan Duke -- Ignacio Acosta, Louise Purbrick, Xavier Ribas (Traces of Nitrate) -- Greetings / Christiane Riedel -- Foreword / Stephan Erfurt -- Image ecology: an introduction / Boaz Levin, Kathrin Schönegg -- Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Marble: Capitalism, Nature, and the Promethean Gaze, from Mercator to the Space Age / Jason W. Moore -- Authors -- List of works -- Colophon -- Carolina Caycedo -- Munem Wasif -- Revital Cohen, Tuur van Balen -- Su Yu Hsin -- Coline Jourdan -- Susanne Kriemann -- Richard Frater.

Summary:

The group exhibition Image Ecology presents a global cross-section of twelve contemporary artistic responses in the form of photographs, video works, and installations. The artists employ experimental and traditional production methods, historical processes, as well as new technologies. The exhibition lays out the stages of the metabolic process in four thematically linked parts - Energy, Material, Labor, and Waste, ending by returning to the start with Energy. Alongside cyanotypes (Material), there are natural prints made using plant-based emulsions that fade over time when exposed to light (Energy). Also featured is a video piece about the supply chains of global capitalist consumption underpinning digital image technologies and the uninterrupted colonialist exploitation of resources and laborers in the D.R. Congo (Labor), as well as photographs printed from negatives developed in river water so contaminated by mining activity that it has turned acidic and red (Waste). By revealing the links and interdependencies of human and nonhuman life around the world, Image Ecology opposes the assumption of a dualistic understanding of nature versus culture. How can the world be more fairly organized given the challenges posed by ecological, economic, and social crises? The exhibition encourages human action and transnational solidarity, opening possibilities for forward-looking ecological photography practices. -- https://www.co-berlin.org/en/program/exhibitions/image-ecology.

ISBN:

9783959057660 hardbound
3959057660

Subject:

Photography, Artistic Exhibitions.
Ecology in art Exhibitions.
Photographie artistique Expositions.
Photography

Form/genre:

Exhibition catalogs

Added entries:

Levin, Boaz, 1989- organizer, editor.
Schönegg, Kathrin, 1982- organizer, editor.
Zirden, Sylvia, translator.
Gore, Sylee, translator.
C/O Berlin (Gallery), host institution, issuing body.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 319648
Call No.: 319648
Copy: 1
Status: Available