Can We Still Remember Those Mountains? Breaking the World into Pieces: Art and Mining Landscapes in Minas Gerais, Brazil

Mining has been, for centuries, the main economic activity in the state of Minas Gerais, in Brazil. This paper focuses on artistic engagements with mining landscapes as situated manifestations of the Anthropocene and as sites where memory and identity intersect with sociotechnical inscriptions. A double approach is pursued. First previous artistic experiences are presented and discussed with regards to landscape’s relations with memory and identity. Second, initial considerations regarding mining’s sociotechnical transformations of the landscape are discussed, followed by a brief presentation of ongoing experiments by the authors.

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André Mintz

Carlos Henrique Rezende Falci

Gabriel Aragão

Lohuama Lisboa

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Publication date: September 2021

Publication date (Print): September 2021

Pages: 132-137

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[0001]School of Fine Arts –

UFMG

Belo Horizonte, Brazil

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DOI: 10.14236/ewic/POM2021.17

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Conference name: Proceedings of Politics of the Machines - Rogue Research 2021

Conference acronym: POM 2021

Conference number: 3

Conference location: Berlin, Germany

Conference date: September 14-17, 2021

Conference sponsor: Electronic Workshops in Computing (eWiC)

Conference theme: debate and devise concepts and practices that seek to critically question and unravel novel modes of science

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[1] M Akrich (1992) The De-scription of Technical Objects. In: W. E. Bijker and J. Law (Eds.) Shaping Technology/Building Society: Studies in Sociotechnical Change. MIT Press, Cambridge MA.

[2] Andrade CD de (2012) Sentimento do mundo. São Paulo: Companhia das Letras.

[3] HM Aráoz (2020) Mineração, Genealogia Do Desastre: O Extrativismo Na América Como Origem Da Modernidade. Elefante, São Paulo.

[4] J-M Besse (2014) As cinco portas da paisagem - ensaio de uma cartografia das problemáticas paisagísticas contemporâneas. In O Gosto Do Mundo. Exercícios de Paisagem, Rio de Janeiro.

[5] A Broeckmann (2016) Machine Art in the Twentieth Century. Leonardo book series. Cambridge, The MIT Press, Cambridge MA.

[6] K Crawford (2021) Atlas of Ai: Power, Politics, and the Planetary Costs of Artificial Intelligence. Yale University Press, New Haven.

[7] K Crawford and V Joler (2017) Anatomy of an AI System. Available at: http://www.anatomyof.ai (accessed 28 September 2019)

[8] F Guattari (1995) On Machines. Complexity, Benjamin A (Ed.), 6, 8–12.

[9] D Haraway (1988) Situated Knowledges: The Science Question in Feminism and the Privilege of Partial Perspective. Feminist Studies 14(3), 575–599. DOI: 10.2307/3178066.

[10] D Haraway (2016) Staying with the Trouble: Making Kin in the Chthulucene. Duke University Press Books, Durham.

[11] D Haraway (2017) Symbiogenesis, sympoiesis, and art science activisms. In: Tsing AL, Bubandt N, Gan E, et al. (Eds.) Arts of Living on a Damaged Planet: Ghosts and Monsters of the Anthropocene. University Of Minnesota Press, Minneapolis.

[12] A Krenak (2015) Paisagens, territórios e pressão colonial. Espaço Ameríndio 9(3), 3, 327. DOI: 10.22456/1982-6524.61133.

[13] A Krenak (2019) Ideias para adiar o fim do mundo. Edição: 2. Companhia das Letras, São Paulo.

[14] A Krenak (2020) A vida não é útil. Companhia das Letras, São Paulo.

[15] B Latour (1986) Visualization and Cognition. Knowledge and Society 6(1), 1–40.

[16] B Latour and P Weibel (eds) (2020) Critical Zones: The Science and Politics of Landing on Earth. Cambridge MA; Karlsruhe: MIT Press; ZKM.

[17] D Lowenthal (2008) Passage du temps sur le paysage. Collection Archigraphy. Infolio, Gollion.

[18] M Ratto and G Hertz (2019) Critical making and interdisciplinary learning: making as a bridge between art, science, engineering, and social interventions. In: Bogers L and Chiappini L (eds) The Critical Makers Reader. Institute of Network Cultures, Amsterdam.

[19] Souzanetto M de and Ribeiro MA (2006) Manfredo de Souzanetto: Depoimento. Circuito atelier 34. C/Arte Editora, Belo Horizonte.

[20] AL Tsing, N Bubandt, Gan E, et al. (eds) (2017) Arts of Living on a Damaged Planet: Ghosts and Monsters of the Anthropocene. University Of Minnesota Press, Minneapolis.

[21] JM Wisnik (2018) Maquinação Do Mundo: Drummond e a Mineração. Companhia das Letras, São Paulo.

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