Palmer, A. Laurie, author.

In the aura of a hole : exploring sites of material extraction / A. Laurie Palmer.

London, UK : Black Dog Publishing, [2014]
©2014

143 pages : illustrations (some color), maps ; 25 cm

In The Aura of a Hole explores the work of A. Laurie Palmer an artist, writer, and teacher. Her work is concerned, most immediately, with resistance to privatization, and more generally, with theoretical and material explorations of matter's active nature as it asserts itself on different scales and in different speeds. Her work takes various forms as sculpture, installation, public projects, and writing. This publication focuses specifically on a decade long project Palmer undertook as an extended exploration of mineral extraction sites in the U.S, which through her narration of a first person perspective, discusses themes of the raw scientific and mechanical aspects of the industry, but furthermore those that she found a collective survey brought up, themes of environmental justice, First Nation rights, industrial agriculture, chemical weapons, low temperature physics, the Cold War, the Iraq War, biotechnology, bio-geochronology, nanotechnology, Homeland Security, globalised trade, global warming and unemployment.

9781908966582
1908966580

Mineral industries Environmental aspects United States.
Chemical industry Environmental aspects United States.
Mineral industries in art.
Art and industry.
Mines Industrie Aspect de l'environnement États-Unis.
Industries chimiques Aspect de l'environnement États-Unis.
Art et industrie.
Art and Design.
Chemical industry Environmental aspects.
Mineral industries Environmental aspects.
United States.

Location: Library main 287106
Call No.: BIB 227910
Status: Available