With funding from Fonds Darstellende Künste, we are researching “extraction” as metasignifier—we include the extraction of (creative) labour from (precarious) bodies; minerals, gas and water from the ground; sounds, words and images from sentient beings; the consensual extraction of digital content, and the “mining of the exotic” from our very identities.
- Art and Extractivism Reading Group
Text: Mel Y. Chen “Animacies: Biopolitics, Racial Mattering and Queer Affect”
every Monday at 16:30 - Overview
Extraction is the forthcoming audio visual and performative work in HYENAZ Foreign Bodies series and explores how extractive processes are replicated within the arts, and how… Continue reading Overview - Compendium of Tactics*
The following compendium is a by-no-means-exhaustive list of accountability practices during the field recording, filming and collaborative phase of a project. These practices are designed to… Continue reading Compendium of Tactics* - Discussions on Art and Extractivism
Here we gathered all the recorded conversations and podcasts where we discuss our work on Extraction. - Essays on Art and Extractivism
These essays synthesize the reading and research we have done in the course of the Extraction research phase - Gallery
This gallery includes visual documentation of the birth of the extraction project, when we visited the marble quarry in Apricena, Italy in 2015