Anarchives, Site-Specific Greenhouse Superstructures, and Social (Hyperobjective) Pedestals: the dematerialisation and rematerialisation of colonial memory as environmental form
2021 (English)In: Black Box: A Record of the Catastrophe, Volume Two, Oakland, US: PM Press , 2021Chapter in book (Other academic) [Artistic work]
Abstract [en]
This paper is about initiating a process of augmentation. The subject of this augmentation is the compound, technical term “greenhouse superstructure”. The process is initiated here by deposing the matter of colonial memory that is entrenched within this term. The deposition takes form as a brief genealogy, an account of related artworks, and a hypothesis about the destabilisation of this technological apparatus. Its passages and components outline the subtle and insidious dialectics of accelerated climate change that are converged and suppressed as an impasse within the very envelop of the term - physically, conceptually, metaphorically. In doing so, I discuss how the discourse, my artworks, and other interventions may reveal, emancipate, and display these entrenched conditions beyond the visual and technological privileges of the “greenhouse”. I thereon argue that these destabilising formats of sculptural display may be referred to as Anarchives, Site-Specific Greenhouse Superstructures, and, ultimately, as Social (Hyperobjective) Pedestals.
Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Oakland, US: PM Press , 2021.
Keywords [en]
art, memory, colonial memory, greenhouse, archive, hyperobject, supersturcture, anarchive
National Category
Humanities and the Arts Engineering and Technology Natural Sciences Social Sciences Arts
Research subject
Art, Technology and Design
Identifiers
URN: urn:nbn:se:konstfack:diva-8906ISBN: 978-1-62963-237-7 (print)OAI: oai:DiVA.org:konstfack-8906DiVA, id: diva2:1749368
Conference
Originally presented and peer-reviewed at Mnemonics 2015: Memory and Materialism (September 8, 2015) London Cultural Memory Consortium (Goldsmiths, Kings College, and the University of Westminster)
2018-05-282023-04-062025-03-03Bibliographically approved