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Accumulation as activism, as theatre, as mourning, as protest. Accumulation as collaboration; as collective grief. Accumulation as the tension between overpopulation, the excesses of capitalism, and mass extinction.

Puppet Back Up At God’s House Tower, Southampton; Extinction Rebellion’s Funeral for Nature, Bath.

#accumulation #theatre #extinctionrebellion #xr #puppetbackup #red #art #climate crisis #military spending #mass extinction #performance art #activism

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Accumulation as digital occupation; as religious expression; as Muybridgean aesthetics (the conflation of the aesthetic and the technological); as somatic; as dance.

Lisa Jamhoury, L’entrée, 2024. Multimedia installation at Glow, Kings College London.

#accumulation #public art #digital art #augmented reality #postcolonial aesthetics #history of technology

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Accumulation as public health action. Display of flags standing in for people with colorectal cancer, on the Mall, Washington, D.C.

#accumulation #public art #cancer #flags

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Accumulation as averted gaze, as memorial, as paradox of memory without experience. Anton Kusters at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum: https://www.ushmm.org/information/exhibitions/museum-exhibitions/blue-skies

#accumulation #art #photography #memorial #memory #sky #genocide

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Accumulation as resistance, recuperation, recovery, restoration. The Potlatch collection at the U’mista Cultural Centre, Alert Bay.

#accumulation #kwakwaka'wakw #potlatch #colonialism #colonization #reparations #repatriation

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Accumulation as collaboration, community-building, survivance, feminism, matrimony, softness, and monumentality.

Marie Watt, Blanket Stories: Three Sisters, Cousin Rose, Four Pelts and Sky Woman, 2005. 160×20×20 in. Folded and stacked wool blankets, salvaged cedar. Installation view, Hoffman Gallery, Lewis & Clark College, Portland, OR

#art #accumulation #blankets #native american #indigenous #feminism #sculpture #matriliny

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Accumulation as handwork, sustainability, and the passage of time. Elizabeth Day’s darned socks at Winchester School of Art Green Week.

#accumulation #fashion #mending #sustainability #recycling #reuse

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Accumulation as collective action and collective optimism; accumulation as art-school education.

Peter Driver, March for Optimism, Winchester High Street, May 2014

#accumulation #collective action #performance #performance art #collaboration #play #optimism #activism #public art #engaged

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Accumulation as self-assessment and self-critique, but also self-celebration self-described as self-mockery.

Barbara Iweins, Katalog (delpire & co, 2022).

#art #photography #waste #domesticity #accumulation #things #everyday

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24 hours in the life and a year in the making: accumulation as belated social media trending. (Hello, world.)

#accumulation #reflexivity #a year later #time #a day later

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Accumulation as an interrogation of the complex effects of consumer capitalism, technological innovation, colonialism, and the drive to create.

Wastemakers on Cornucopia Street, curated by Ian Dawson, Newhaven Art Space, Newhaven UK, 3rd-19th February 2022

Contributing Artists: John Walter, Donna Mitchell, Jasone Miranda Bilbao, Compound 13 Lab, Ian Dawson, Aqui Thami, Louisa Minkin, Sharmila Samant, Migueltzinta Solis, Andrea Mason, Ben Parry, Amanda Jobson

See also Dawson’s follow-up exhibition “Wastework,” at the Winchester Gallery 9 March-15 April 2023. Wastework extended the idea of accumulation by inviting artists to add to the exhibition over the course of its run.

#accumulation #exhibitiondesign #recycling #art #waste #rubbish #globalisation

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Accumulation as discipline, as meditation, as sustained wonder, as optimism, as action.

Bugsy Sailor’s thousands of consecutive sunrise photographs: https://yearofthesunrise.com/gallery

#accumulation #sunrise #photography

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Sammy Baloji, Untitled, 2018/2023. 50 mortar shell casings, interior plants. Music played intermittently through a single-channel speaker: Chanteurs à la croix de cuivre d’Elisabethville Chants religieux classiques et folkloriques (1948).

Exhibited as part of ‘The Accursed Share’, Talbot Rice Gallery, University of Edinburgh.

Accumulation as transformative, memorialising protest.

#accumulation #art #memory #war #domesticity #appropriation #democratic republic of the congo #mining #colonialism #resource extraction

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Accumulation as humanizing conflict and embodying the natural world. Cannupa Hanksa Luger at Standing Rock, 2016.

#accumulation #standing rock #water protectors #protest #performance

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Accumulation as memorial -- a necessary follow-up to my previous post. Maya Lin, Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

#memory #war #accumulation #vietnam #sculpture #memorial

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Accumulation as revising and decolonizing narratives of war; as memorial and as rebuke; as a reminder of the blank spaces in our historical knowledge. The labeled stack represents the number of Americans killed in Vietnam; the other, unlabeled stacks, represent the number of Vietnamese killed. “Remembering Others,” by Teo Nguyen at the Minneapolis Institute of Art.

#accumulation #vietnam #war #memorial #memory #a country not a war #peace

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Accumulation as global branding as community engagement. Yayoi Kusama at Tate: https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artists/yayoi-kusama-8094/yayoi-kusamas-obliteration-room

#accumulation #art #spectacle #collage #communityengagement #yayoi kusama #stickers #dots #celebrity