Land and Sea:

Watch where the branches of the willows bend; See where the waters of the rivers tend; Graves in the rock, cradles in the sand; Every land is the holy land –Ursula K. LeGuin

SURFACE AND MEMORY: A CONVERSATION WITH KATHIE FOLEY-MEYER

Patrick J. Reed
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The artist and researcher Kathie Foley-Meyer joined curator Patrick J. Reed to discuss her creative practice and scholarship on ocean memory and the territoriality and temporality of Blackness.

  • Generation
  • Growth
  • Invisibility
  • Land and Sea
  • Networks
  • Perception
  • The Body
  • Visualization

TRISTAN DUKE: TRANSITIONAL LENSES

Patrick J. Reed
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Artist Tristan Duke photographs the Placerita Oil Field and the Tehachapi Wind Resource Area using lenses made from frozen drinking water. Fulcrum Arts’ Curator, Patrick J. Reed, goes along for the ride.

  • Digging
  • Extraction
  • Generation
  • Growth
  • Invisibility
  • Land and Sea
  • Networks
  • Perception
  • System Failure
  • Visualization
Cover - The Erosion of Silicon Beach

The Erosion of Silicon Beach

Nina Sarnelle
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The tide line is a soft transition. Where capital meets the sea, it creates brittle structures, likely to shatter. The ocean’s edges may not be as fluid as they seem.

  • Digging
  • Extraction
  • Growth
  • Invisibility
  • Land and Sea
  • System Failure

Souvenir

Ohan Breiding Shoghig Halajian
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Inside this, another animal grows, then another, another. Eventually there are hundreds of thousands.

  • Fictions
  • Growth
  • Land and Sea
  • Networks
  • Perception
  • The Body
Multicolor singular disk with a cube pattern on it. Out of focus ocean and horizon background.

The Erosion of Silicon Beach

Nina Sarnelle
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discomforting circularity turns in my stomach, thinking about Santa Monica’s full-circle from place of work to ‘workplace.’

  • Digging
  • Extraction
  • Growth
  • Invisibility
  • Land and Sea
  • System Failure
A narrow alley in Los Angeles. To its left is a screen protecting pedestrians from the highway. To its right is the LA River Bridge.

LA Interval

Celia Hollander
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On February 22nd, I walked from my house in Northeast Los Angeles to the ocean in Venice Beach. I recorded the nearly 9 hour, 20 mile walk along highways, under bridges, and through different neighborhoods with binaural in-ear microphones.

  • Architecture
  • Land and Sea
  • Networks
  • Perception
  • Vibration
Close up of white mineral rock.

Anthropogenic Mineral Collection

Colleen Hargaden
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In the fall of 2020, I began gathering samples for what I’ve termed an Anthropogenic Mineral Collection. These carbon-based minerals consist of human-mediated byproducts of geological intervention from the Industrial Revolution to the present. The majority of those in my collection are caused by industrial mining of valuable conductors, and have not been recorded elsewhere as natural occurrences.

  • Digging
  • Extraction
  • Land and Sea
  • Networks
  • The Body
  • Visualization
AI-generated textile, cotton, training: Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter satellite images, 2020

ABOVE BELOW

Sarah Rosalena Balbuena-Brady
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Colonialism is rooted in the planetary imagination which fails to account for histories of structural racism based on geologic relations and the violent dispossession of indigenous lands. This resulted in legacies of destructive cartography and mapping now used in machine vision in space.

  • Cosmology
  • Extraction
  • Generation
  • Land and Sea
  • System Failure
  • The Body
  • Visualization