C152—Summer 2022

Accepted until: April 1, 2022

Everything is vulnerable to extraction: water, woods, metals, oils, emotions, labour, data, land, ideas, bodies, time. As we know, extraction is systemic—the political-ontological basis for the
circulation of resources under neoliberal capitalism—and agents of such appropriation scarcely do enough to respect, heal, and replenish their sources. This issue explores artistic practices and adjacent bodies of knowledge that closely engage an array of extractive practices, interrogating their manifold consequences and attempting to demarcate non-extractive modalities. How are artists raising consciousness? Intervening? What are the possibilities for
repair work when repair requires resources that exceed those allocated to inflict the damage? For future-building? How does the art world’s rapid pace, expectation of novelty, and thirst for emotional displays depend on the exploitation of individuals? How does resistance play out? What is ethical funding, and how could the arts (especially that of a country whose wealth relies so predominantly on profits gleaned from non-renewable resources) operate without “dirty” money? How are artists forging generative practices from research, and the complex affective constellation of guilt, responsibility, and hope?

Thematic feature, artist project, and column pitches accepted until April 1, 2022. We suggest pitching early to avoid disappointment. Review pitches, which are not required to be thematic, are accepted on a rolling basis.

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