Title & Author:

Everlasting plastics / edited by Tizziana Baldenebro, Joanna Joseph, Isabelle Kirkham-Lewitt, and Lauren Leving.

Publication:

New York : Graduate School of Architecture, Planning, and Preservation, [2024]
New York : Columbia University Press.
©2024

Description:

256 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), color maps ; 23 cm

Series:

Columbia books on architecture and the city

Notes:
Published on the occasion of an exhibition held at the US Pavilion, Venice Architecture Biennale, Venice, Italy May 20 - November 26, 2023.
Includes bibliographical references.
Pliable encounters / Tizziana Baldenebro, Lauren Leving, and Paula Volpato -- Sketches on everlasting plastics. The notes within my blood / RA Washington -- Eating the future / Heather Davis - Crude sedimentation / Laleh Khalili - Aesop condoms / Aurelia Guo - The making of a synthetic world / Adam Hanieh - Hard mother / Anjuli Fatima Raza Kolb - On the plasticity of plastics / Carolyn L. Kane - DuPont's better living, working women, and industrial toxicology / Gabrielle Printz - Seduction concentrate / Iliana Harris-Babou and Pallavi Sen - Whither the forty ounce? / Naa Oyo A. Kwate - Edges, ends of worlds, and plastic oceans / Jennifer Gabrys - Seed bead inheritances and other toxicities / Kristen Bos - Imperial serial / Esther Leslie - Stone now cuts like cheese / Adie Mitchell and Timothy Mitchell - In place of / Terry Schwarz - The racial logic of impressibility / Kyla Schuller - Rebirth garments / Sky Cubacub - Intimate synthetic entanglements / Ani Liu - Picking our poison / Ayesha A. Siddiqi - before/another / Stephanie Ginese - The ontological slippage and the amassing utility of blackness / Zakiyyah Iman Jackson - LeCreebusier encounters the plastic "other" / K. Jake Chakasim - Plastic: a life sketch / Rania Ghosn - Unsettled matter / Theodossis Issaias and Ala Tannir - At the edge of the usual / Marisa Solomon - Longevity / Lauren Yeager - On the formerly useful and the everpresentness of history / Laura Raicovich -- Externalities / Ang Li - Too heavy: finding the places of plastics, or how I spent my summer vacation not going to the Venice Biennale / Jessica Varner - PROOFING: resistant and ready / Xavi L. Aguirre - A suite on architectural disobedience / madison moore - Re+prise / Norman Teague - Evoking objects of change / Michele Y. Washington - This will kill ______ that / Simon Anton - Being is nothing but our own mutability: a mediation on sorrow in 4-parts / Shannon Rae Stratton - ARTH 392/492 plastocene era: art, plastics, and the future of the planet.

Summary:

"How can we live without plastics? But, also, how can we live without plastics? These two questions, which index a different set of urgent concerns, haunt Everlasting Plastics. Exploring the infinite ways in which plastics permeate our bodies and our world, the book offers intimate and political accounts of our fraught yet enmeshed kinship with these materials. Rather than making a case for or against the material, the writings and artworks collected in this volume attempt to register our ongoing toxic dependencies on plastic, its impact on other material cultures and behaviors, and the harm and possibilities it entangles for our collective futures. Everlasting Plastics records and expands upon the exhibition of the US Pavilion at the 2023 Venice Biennale, which excavated the ways synthetics both shape and erode contemporary ecologies, economies, and the built environment. Refusing to see the exhibition as a static event and instead imagining it as an invitation to evolve the stakes of a shared conversation, the book gathers the work of the exhibition alongside research, reflections, sketches, and newly commissioned critical essays. More than a catalog, Everlasting Plastics is itself an exercise in plasticity--staging interactions between institutions and disciplines, between editorial and curatorial practice, between book and exhibition. Through its range of formats, the book unfolds, broadens, revises, and expands the histories, relations, preoccupations, and discourses on and around our relationship to plastic matter and thought. With artwork by Xavi L. Aguirre, Simon Anton, Ang Li, Norman Teague, and Lauren Yeager; essays from madison moore, Laura Raicovich, Shannon Rae Stratton, Marisa Solomon, Jessica Varner, and Michele Washington; sketches by Kristen Bos, K. Jake Chakasim, Sky Cubacub, Heather Davis, Jennifer Gabrys, Rania Ghosn, Stephanie Ginese, Aurelia Guo, Adam Hanieh, Ilana Harris-Babou, Theodossis Issaias, Zakiyyah Iman Jackson, Carolyn L. Kane, Laleh Khalili, Anjuli Fatima Raza Kolb, Naa Oyo A. Kwate, Esther Leslie, Ani Liu, Adie Mitchell, Timothy Mitchell, Gabrielle Printz, Kyla Schuller, Terry Schwarz, Pallavi Sen, Ayesha A. Siddiqi, Ala Tannir, and RA Washington"-- $c Provided by Amazon..

ISBN:

9781941332818 paperback
1941332811 paperback

Subject:

International Architectural Exhibition (18th : 2023 : Venice, Italy)
Plastics Environmental aspects.
Plastics Biodegradation.
Plastics in building.
Plastics as art material.
Architecture Environmental aspects.
Matières plastiques Aspect de l'environnement.
Matières plastiques Biodégradation.
Matières plastiques dans la construction.
Architecture Aspect de l'environnement.
Matières plastiques (Matériau d'artistes)

Added entries:

Baldenebro, Tizziana, editor.
Joseph, Joanna (Editor), editor.
Kirkham-Lewitt, Isabelle, editor
Leving, Lauren, editor.
Columbia books on architecture and the city.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 321518
Call No.: 321518
Copy: 1
Status: Available