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Mit dem Stein arbeiten II
Not translated: 3 ZU DEN STEINEN GEHEN 2. November 2013, Steinbruch Solnhofen „Travel and travelers are two things I loathe–and yet here I am, all set to tell the story of my expeditions. (…) Anthropology is a profession in which adventure plays no part; merely one of its bondages, it represents no more than a […]
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Review: Susan Turcot – bitumen, blood and the carbon climb [Drawings, sculptures and a animation film by Canadian artist Susan Turcot]
In her recent works, Susan Turcot has adopted a variety of reportage techniques and has made a significant point of examining the time-based, processual and functional equation that “live” drawing and its medialized representations can set up for the viewer. She investigates large-scale ecological and economical processes such as deforestation and the exploitation of other […]
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Some notes on the ACRE series of pencil drawing
28 drawings made during a residency in Acre, Brazil as part of my invitation to the 27th Sao Paolo Bienal, ‘How to live together’. Drawing as reportage: I have tried to merge historical, environmental, anthropological research with my own experience of rituals, exchanges, and travel during my residency in Acre. This series does not capture […]
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Hélio Melo – The Whole of Acre in a single Tree
In the work Estrada da Floresta [Forest Highway] by artist Hélio Melo (1926–2001, from the Brazilian state of Acre) a rubber tapper – in Portuguese, seringueiro –approaches a big rubber tree, which in the wild can measure in excess of thirty meters in height and almost three meters in diameter. The picture does not therefore […]