If you are in the New York City area, please come by the New Museum on February 17th. As part of the triennial exhibit, the video artist’s group, Inhabitants, has invited me to speak about seabed mining. The event will be from 3-5pm with speakers, open discussion, and the unveiling of new videos on seabed mining.
Mining the Deep Sea Frontier, hosted by Inhabitants with Margarida Mendes.
The New Museum and Inhabitants with Margarida Mendes present Mining the Deep Sea Frontier, a two-part program focusing on the global trend of blue economy and deep sea extraction, often described as a new gold rush. This program challenges the mining industry’s claims by featuring counterarguments from environmental activists, deep sea experts, scientists, and NGOs. It will address key questions about laws, policy-making, and marine conservation, as well as the perceptions of the deep sea and frontier ideas.
Inhabitants is a website and video channel for exploratory documentaries, founded in New York in 2015 by artists Pedro Neves Marques and Mariana Silva.
For the 2018 Triennial, Inhabitants created a web series titled What is Deep Sea Mining? (2018) featuring Margarida Mendes, a curator and activist from Lisbon and a founding member of the Oceano Livre Environmental Movement. The two episodes, Episode 1: Tools for Ocean Literacy and Episode 2: The Blue Economy, a New Gold Rush?, explore deep sea mining, which is a new method of extracting minerals from the ocean floor. The series is available on inhabitants-tv.org, the New Museum website, and other media platforms.
Sponsors: Support for public programs comes from public funds provided by the New York State Council on the Arts with Governor Andrew M. Cuomo and the New York State Legislature, as well as the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council. Full support for the 2018 Triennial: “Songs for Sabotage” can be viewed here.
via Mining the Deep Sea Frontier, organized by Inhabitants with Margarida Mendes :: New Museum
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