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Prologue: Radical Meteorology | World Of Matter

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Earth poison is a research project that explores the place of law and diffused causality in the entanglement of environmental and political violence. In the first investigation presented for World of Matter the project follows large-scale groundwater arsenic poisoning in the Bengal Delta. The cyclone captured in the Blue Marble image is a point of departure to tell the entanglement between natural and political violence in Bangladesh in 1970-71.

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Clearing Wood 1 | World Of Matter

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LandRush - The Farm. LandRush - The Farm. Frauke Huber, Uwe H. Martin. Gambela, a forlorn plot of land tucked away between the Ethiopian highlands and the vast expanse of South Sudan. Gambela hot, humid, flat. Unchanged for centuries: Tribes leading their herds. Anuak, Nuer, Murle fighting for cattle, women, pastures. First with spears, now with kalashnikovs. Artist/Author: Uwe H. Martin Frauke Huber.

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Farmers Funeral | World Of Matter

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White Gold Killing Seeds. White Gold Killing Seeds. Frauke Huber, Uwe H. Martin. More than 270,000 farmers committed suicide in India since 1995. The center of dying lies in Vidarbha located at the once wealthy cotton belt of central India. While India is shining in the cities and at the small top of its society the country faces the worst agricultural crisis since the green revolution. Not by chance the beginning of the suicide series coincided with India’s entry into the World Trade Organization (WTO) ...

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Doyle‘s Hobby | World Of Matter

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White Gold Texas Blues. White Gold Texas Blues. Frauke Huber, Uwe H. Martin. Cindy Buxkemper subsidizes the families farm with a day job as a legal secretary. At night she runs the module builder. Artist/Author: Uwe H. Martin Frauke Huber. Small farmers like the Buxkempers struggle to stay profitable in with cotton growing and wouldn‘t recommend their children to get into farming, because it is too difficult to break even. LandRush - Frontier Land.

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The Politics of Scarcity | World Of Matter

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The Politics of Scarcity. Helge Mooshammer, Peter Mörtenböck. The power of capitalist abstraction operates under cover: it spreads via fragmentations, zonings, borderlines, crossings and penetrations. In the politics of global economic control, these conflictual operations are currently characterised by the re-engineering of ecological and resource systems as the theatre where they occur. The Politics of Scarcity. The Politics of Scarcity.

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Cotton Slaves | World Of Matter

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White Gold Dying Sea. White Gold Dying Sea. Frauke Huber, Uwe H. Martin. Chemical use and excessive irrigation of cotton fields in Central Asia turned the fertile paradise of the Aral Sea into a chemically polluted salt desert. The decline continues in the south, where Uzbekistan forces its population to work the cotton fields. All over Uzbekistan hundreds of thousand university students and schoolchildren are forced to work during the cotton harvest. With about 4 million tons annually Uzbekistan is the ...

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INTRODUCTION OF MONUMENT OF SUGAR – how to use artistic means to elude trade barriers | World Of Matter

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INTRODUCTION OF MONUMENT OF SUGAR how to use artistic means to elude trade barriers. Lonnie van Brummelen / Siebren de Haan. Monument of Sugar is a research into Europe’s subsidized sugar exports. To turn the flow of sugar around, the artists produced a sugar sculpture in Nigeria and shipped it to Europe. A written essay and documentary sequences chart their investigations into the sugar trade and their experiences when producing and transporting the monument. Lonnie van Brummelen and Siebren de Haan:.

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Fishery in Mauritania | World Of Matter

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On the Atlantic coast, new migration systems are emerging as the Strait of Gibraltar is sealed off and border regimes change. Excessive fishing in the Mauritanian EEZ is affecting migration patterns. Sid’Ahmed of the national fisheries federation speaks of the excessive licensing of fish banks on Mauritanian coast and EU fishery regulations. Episode of the Sea. CONVERSATION WITH POLISH WORKERS. Episode of the Sea.

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Egyptian Chemistry Agro-Sciences | World Of Matter

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Egyptian Chemistry is a multi-part video project on the water chemistry and agro-ecologies of the Nile. The first cluster discusses the water engineering of the Nile for various large-scale land reclamation projects. Toshka, on the other hand, a New Nile Valley irrigation project of pharaonic scale, enacts an entirely different vision.

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talks – heather davis

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Writer, editor, researcher. Essays and other writing. 8220;Molecular Imaginary” Elemental Media, NYU, November 11, 2016. 8220;Molecular Critique” Valand Academy of the Arts, Gothenburg, Sweden, October 10, 2016. 8220;Theory for Molecules” Higher Seminar Series, Linkoping University, Linkoping, Sweden, October 6, 2016. Gate of the Sun –. Between the Mountain and. Yinchuan, China, September 10-11, 2016. Dark Ecology Journey, Sonic Acts, Kirkenes, Norway and Nikel, Russia, June 8-12, 2016. May 12-13, 2015.