- Title
- Fossil Fables
- Creator
- Spurr, Samantha; Kairuz, Eduardo
- Relation
- [exhibition] . (Tin Sheds Gallery, Sydney University 18 May-8 July, 2023)
- Publisher
- Sydney University
- Resource Type
- conference paper
- Date
- 2023
- Description
- Fossil Fables is a solo exhibition of creative work presenting research undertaken in the last five years by the Global Extraction Observatory (GEO). Specifically, this body of work addresses the question, "How can architecture contribute to raising awareness on the effects of resource extraction?" and, more specifically, "How can architecture contribute to amplifying the public's understanding of black coal mining in the Hunter Valley region of NSW?" The practice of architecture is traditionally understood as an activity dedicated to the design of buildings. However, in recent years, notions, instruments and methods associated with this practice have been employed to produce narratives that expand our understanding of problems related to social and climate justice. Research agencies like Interprt (sic), Forensic Oceanography, and Forensic Architecture are at the forefront of such expanded practices. Contributing to this field, GEO is also dedicated to redeploying architectural tools, instruments, and methods, this time to analyse, represent and communicate the complex effects of extractivist practices — and in this specific exhibition, of the effects of anthracite (black coal) mining in the Hunter Valley region. As such, the show's contribution to knowledge is twofold: first, by redeploying architecture's intelligence to produce urgent narratives and second, by presenting the confluence of politics, space, scale and matter that prompts this colossal form of multi-scalar violence through creative practice.
- Subject
- Critical Creative Practice; curated/produced exhibition/event
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1520613
- Identifier
- uon:57503
- Language
- eng
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