SHORING [electronic resource].

Blackwood Gallery 2019

Open access content

This fourth broadsheet in the SDUK series is themed SHORING—a concept that touches on both literal shores (representing the meeting—or separation— of land and water), and broader representations of terraforming, resource extraction, data visualization, interdisciplinary research, and the many other supports that have held up existing infrastructures, exploitations, and innovations. A few questions might guide your encounter with this issue: Repeat readers of the broadsheet series may note that this issue in particular is saturated with images, and thus ask, how can we read images of our world through the lens of environmental justice? Projects in this issue demonstrate the ability of photography to narrate and create access to remote climate and atmospheric research (Weaver, p. 20), and to dispute and re-examine the stories images give us of ecosystems we may never encounter face-to-face (Morét, p. 13). Meanwhile, an image by Lois Weinberger (cover and above) asks us to see histories, land-use, settlement, order, and disorder in the archaeological fragments shored up in private property (in this case, his parents’ Austrian farmhouse). Those compelled by conversations about the shift from fossil-fuel reliance to sustainable energy may wonder, how can we see the effects of resource extraction and energy production when much of it is designed to remain obscure? Genevieve Robertson’s Still Running Water (p. 4) catalogues hydropower projects along the Columbia River, while poems from Laurel Albina’s Energy Series (p. 6) evoke the violence and invasiveness of mining and drilling, and Jessica Caporusso’s study of Mauritius’s “green” energy economies (p. 18) attends to their legacies of colonialism, slavery, and exploitation…
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Art criticism
Climatic changes
Imperialism
Documentary photography
Ecology
Earth sciences
Natural Resources
Remote-sensing images
Sustainable development

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D.T. Cochrane
Alison Cooley
Fraser McCallum
Christine Shaw
Joy Xiang
Laurel Albina
Ruth Beer
Jessica Caporusso
Skye Morét
Genevieve Robertson
Synthetic Collective
Dan Weaver
Lois Weinberger
Matthew Hoffman
Jeffrey Malecki