No. 1 (2020), Creative Frontiers
No. 1 (2020)

On-Trade-Off: Countering extractivism by transnational artist’s collaborations

Creative Frontiers
Published 2020-09-30
  • Lotte Arndt
  • Oulimata Gueye
Lotte Arndt
Oulimata Gueye
Le Vide, (The Void), Georges Sanga, Contour Biennale 9, 2019
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Keywords

extractivism
lithium
artistic research
transnational practice

Abstract

How to address as an artist collective the profit-maximizing structures of extractivism? A collaboration between a dozen artists and writers on three continents, On-Trade-Off enters the “extractive zoneâ€, critically examines its functioning, and searches for alternatives.

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