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World of Matter

 - World of Matter
An aesthetic and ethical approaches to the handling of natural resources. By drawing connections between works that derive from artistic practice, journalism, philosophy, activism, and other realms of research, “World of Matter” provides a place of commonality for eco-logical imaginaries.
“World of Matter” is an international project investigating raw materials and the complex ecologies of which they are a part. In light of the acute problems resulting from human-induced transformation of the earth and its systems, it is tempting to strike a dramatic tone. However, the perspective of crisis also calls upon us to reconsider—at a fundamental level, and in slow, subtle, and unspectacular ways—how we understand and interact with the world of things.
Published following the eponymous exhibition at HMKV, Dortmund, from March to June 2014.
Edited by Inke Arns.
Contributions by Nabil Ahmed, Inke Arns, Mabe Bethônico, Ursula Biemann, Gavin Bridge, Lonnie van Brummelen & Siebren de Haan, T. J. Demos, Elaine Gan, Uwe H. Martin & Frauke Huber, Peter Mörtenböck & Helge Mooshammer, Timothy Morton, Emily Eliza Scott, Paulo Tavares.

Graphic design: labor b designbüro.
 
published in July 2015
English edition
21,5 x 26,5 cm (softcover)
192 pages (b/w & color ill.)
 
25.00
 
ISBN : 978-3-95679-083-6
EAN : 9783956790836
 
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