Curating and Project Direction

In 2016, I curated Extracted, a group exhibition inspired by growing scientific consensus that we live in a new geological epoch characterized by humankind’s impact on Earth—the Anthropocene. The exhibition highlighted a particular anthropogenic tendency: the extraction and circulation of natural resources around the globe. This reflexive tapping of value can be seen not only in the complex technical processes behind oil drilling, mining or industrial agriculture, for example, but also in the ways in which we understand our relationships to labor, technology, the natural environment, and to other living beings.

Participating artists: Mary Mattingly, Otobong Nkanga, Claire Pentecost, David Zink Yi and Marina Zurkow. 

Exhibition booklet and essay: Extracted (pdf)