2018 — Mutating Ecologies In Contemporary Art: Matter, Ethics And ...

Running on Cargo About Conferences/Symposiums Events Papers Publications Exhibitions Nitrate Works Copper Geographies Frozen Future Reviews/Articles Fieldwork Capitalism changes everything. It has altered our relationship to the Earth. It has ripped lands apart, torn out their materials and hauled them over the surface of the world. Extraction and export are the business of capital. All forms of exchange are acts of appropriation but mining removes materials that can never be replaced. They are taken, transformed and trafficked with no intent to repay. Prev Next ✕ Index 2018 — Mutating Ecologies in Contemporary Art: Matter, Ethics and Subjectivity Ignacio Acosta delivers a talk at the international symposium organised by 'Art, Globalization, Interculturality' research group of the Universitat de Barcelona. MACBA, Barcelona, 21 February 2018. The symposium questions what role could philosophy play to the challenges posed by climate change, resource depletion and the diverse political and cultural crises our societies face in the 21st Century? How to identify the toxic effects of the logic of advance capitalism and neoliberal globalization in a cognitive, social and structural level? What kind of narratives, cartographies and figurations account for the fractures and contradictions of our times? How to reinvent subjectivity when trying to make it compatible with mutating universes of value? How can art, cultural becomings and institutional practice be thought in terms of environmental sustainability in the postnatural and posthuman, technologically-mediated era of the Anthropocene? Link Filed under Conference Papers (2,760 views) 2025 — Pensée extractiviste, pensée écosophique. L’art (ré)génératif face à la dépossession dans le système-monde capitaliste — Aix Marseille Université, September-December 2025. Xavier Ribas and Ignacio Acosta present their recent work in the seminar Pensée extractiviste, pensée éc... Events 2025 — Photography Now, Victoria & Albert Museum London — Trafficking the Earth [2017] is included in the current Photography Now exhibition showcasing the latest additions of global contemporary photography to the V&A’s c... Exhibitions 2025 — Tramas de lo Real — Xavier Ribas talks about Traces of Nitrate in FOTONOVIEMBRE 2025. TRAMAS DE LO REAL Aula Cultural de Fotografía de la Universidad de Las Laguna and TEA, ... Events 2025 — El Vértigo de la Imágenes — A portfolio version of Xavier Ribas' work MONTURAQUI (2024) exhibited in Fotonoviembre 2025, Tenerife Espacio de las Artes [TEA]. En una época que no cesa de ... Exhibitions 2025 — Reframing the Archive — Xavier Ribas presents his recent Chilean works in the International Conference on Photography and Visual Culture. HAUNTED ARCHIVES OF LIVINGNESS Visual Culture... Events 2024 — Researching on, and with, Photographs, Victoria & Albert Museum — A Two-day workshop for CHASE Cohort doctoral students Victoria & Albert Museum, South Kensington 24 and 25 October 2024. Thursday 24 October 10.00 Arrive... Events 2024 — Subterranean Forces — Symposium organised by Moving Mountains, University of Leeds, 19 and 20 of September 2024. The symposium will delve into the influences of subterranean forces... Events 2024 – From Mars to Venus — This exhibition brings together works by Ignacio Acosta that untangle politics of representation, extraction and resistance. From Mars to Venus, 13th Leandre... Exhibitions 2024 – Conference, Arts and anti-extractive policies in Latin America — Lecture given by Macarena Gómez-Barris at Centre d'Art la Panera in the context of Ignacio Acosta's exhibition From Mars to Venus, 13th Leandre Cristòfol Art B... Conferences/Symposiums 2024 – Towner Eastbourne — Xavier Ribas participates in the online panel: Ancient Glaciers and Melting Ice, International Perspectives at Towner Eastbourne, Wednesday 5th June 2024. Lisa... Events 2024 – Latin American Studies Association — Xavier Ribas participates in the LASA congress 2024, Bogotá, 12–15 June 2024. Mesa: Hidroenergías: Pulsos y prácticas hacia otros futuros energéticos desde la c... Events 2024 – Exhibition Treasures of the Future — Green Paradox presented at Futurium, Berlin, May, 2024. Raw materials determine our lives. Our whole existence rests upon them: we build our houses with them;... Exhibitions 2024 – Green Paradox — Single-chanel video by Ignacio Acosta. Green Paradox features Karen Luza, a queer activist and equine therapist from the Lickanantay Indigenous community of... Frozen Future 2024 – Horizon and Limit. Landscape Visions — Xavier Ribas participates in the collective exhibition Horizon and Limit: Landscape Visions, at Caixaforum, Barcelona, 01.05.2024 – 01.09.2024. The exhibition i... Exhibitions 2024 – Extractivism/Activism: Art, Activism and Ecological Extraction — Ignacio Acosta presented at the conference by Climate & Colonialism research project at the Paul Mellon Centre and Autograph ABP. The arts have long been... Events 2024 – In A Dim Light — Exhibition by Xavier Ribas at Galeria ProjecteSD, Barcelona. 19.01.2024 – 30.03.2024. In his book Is Racism an Environmental Threat? Ghassan Hage argues that t... Exhibitions 2024 – Dead Ice [Like Air Trapped in their Lungs] — A Photographic installation by Xavier Ribas. Dead Ice [Like Air Trapped in their Lungs] is an installation of 40 photographs taken at the Juncal Norte glacier... Frozen Future 2023 — From the Archives Symposium. Urbane Künste Ruhr — Despite being disinvited from an art event happening in Germany today, 2nd December 2023, we remain committed to using our practice to encourage discussion on the... Conferences/Symposiums 2023 – Monturaqui — A photographic documentation of Minera Escondida's abandoned water extraction site by Xavier Ribas. Monturaqui documents the abandoned industrial structures of... Frozen Future 2023 – Horizon and Limit — Catalogue of the collective exhibition Horizon and Limit: Landscape Visions at Caixaforum, Madrid. Edited by Nimfa Bisbe and Arola Valls. Horizon and Limit.... Publications 2023 – Image Ecology — Catalogue of the collective exhibition Image Ecology at C/o Berlin, edited by Boaz Levin and Kathrin Schönegg. Spector Books 2023 9783959057660 (English ... Publications 2023 – Reassemblage — Catalogue of the collective exhibition Reassemblage at the Tenerife Espacio de las Artes for the Tenerife Photography Biennale 2021. Edited by Teresa... Publications 2023 – Horizon and Limit. Landscape Visions — Xavier Ribas participates in the collective exhibition Horizon and Limit: Landscape Visions, at Caixaforum, Madrid, 30.11.2023 – 31.3.2024. The exhibition i... Exhibitions 2023 – Crisis Climática — Xavier Ribas participates in the collective exhibition curated by Gloria Sarabia, at Pontificia Universidad católica de Chile, 13.09.2023 – 26.10.2023. Work in P... Exhibitions 2023 – Seismic Mother — Xavier Ribas participates in the exhibition curated by Holly Birtles and Charly Blackburn at Hypha Studios, London, 01.09.2023 – 28.09.2023. The average life e... Exhibitions 2023 – Image Ecology — Traces of Nitrate participates in the collective exhibition curated by Boaz Levin and Kathrin Schönegg at C/o Berlin, 16.09.2023 -18.01.2024. Traces of ... Exhibitions 2023 – Sittwerwerk Foundation, Switzerland — St.Gallen, Switzerland, 28.09.2023 – 06.11.2023. Ignacio Acosta was invited together with Stella Carlsen, the responsible for the sustainable management at Art F... Exhibitions 2023 – From Mars to Venus: Activism of the Future — A video installation by Ignacio Acosta. From Mars to Venus: Activism of the Future began following an animistic belief that mineral-rich mountains and deserts... Frozen Future 2023 – Zeppelin Museum Friedrichshafen, Germany — Ignacio Acosta presents new video installation at exhibition Into the Deep: Mines of The Future. -- Link to exhibition -- Download exhibition booklet... Exhibitions 2023 – Restituciones. La fotografía en deuda con su pasado / Restitutions: Photography in Debt with its Past — Edited by Carles Guerra. Fundación MAPFRE, Barcelona (2023), ISBN: 978-8498448368. 264 pages. Contributors: Ariella Aïsha Azoulay, teresa Ferré Panisello, Ya... Publications 2023 – In the Brine, Royal College of Art, London — 15 and 16 June 2023. A collaboration between Traces of Nitrate, Laboratorio de Artes Gráficas del Desierto de Atacama (LAGDA @_lagda) and the OPEN research ... Events 2023 – Open Forum on Art and Activism: Extractivism and the "Green Transition" — A collaboration between the Laboratorio de Artes Gráficas del Desierto de Atacama (LAGDA, @_lagda) and Traces of Nitrate, Brighton June 2023. Desierto ... Events 2023 – Landscape, Experience, Production. Photography and Productive Landscapes in Chile (2000-2020) — Museo de Arte Contemporáneo Universidad de Chile, Santiago, 21.04.2023 – 12.08.2023. Curated by Jose Ignacio Vielma Cabruja. This collective exhibition in... Exhibitions 2023 – Victoria & Albert Museum — The Victoria & Albert Museum, London acquires TRAFFICKING THE EARTH, a photographic installation work composed of 336 images and texts. Trafficking the... Events 2022 – Marginalized Heritage and Invisible History: The Silvertown War Memorial — Louise Purbrick's paper is included in the book Design and Heritage: The Construction of Identity and Belonging. Edited by Grace Lees-Maffei and Rebecca Houze,... Publications 2022 – Centre for Spatial, Environmental and Cultural Politics — Traces of Nitrate joins the Centre for Spatial, Environmental and Cultural Politics at the University of Brighton. CSECP blog post by Traces of Nitrate Events 2022 – Mining Monolith — A video instlallation by Ignacio Acosta. Commisioned by Museum Sinclair-Haus in Bad-Homburg, Germany. Mining Monolith builds a constellation of research... Frozen Future 2022 – Germinations: Conversations in Environmental Humanities with Latin America and the Caribbean — Traces of Nitrate participates in the launch of Germinations, organised by CLACS, School of Advanced Studies, University of London. Activism is in the collective... Events 2022 – Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe Hamburg — Forty photographs, arranged in a four-row grid, contribute to Ignacio Acosta’s multimedia installation Hyiegia Watches Over Us, 2022 at the Mining Photography e... Exhibitions 2022 – Action Against Extractivism. — On Sunday 12 June two large scale textile artworks created by Laboratorio de Artes Gráficas del Desierto de Atacama were simultaneously installed in two sites ... Events 2022 – Thames & Hudson — Copper Geographies is featured in Art and Climate Change(World of Art) publication. Global awareness of climate change is increasing, and the scientific evidence... Publications 2022 – Arts contemporains et anthropocène — Copper Geographies is included in the book Arts contemporains et anthropocène, edited by Danièle Méaux and Jonathan Tichit. Hernann, Paris 2022 ISBN : 97... Publications 2022 – DESIERTO HERIDO — Atacama >>> London, Action Against Extractivism. On Sunday 12 June two large scale textile artworks created by Laboratorio de Artes Gráficas del Desierto de ... Events 2022 – Petite Planète — Xavier Ribas's work Three Moves Are As Bad As A Fire (2014) is included in the group exhibition at Galeria ProjecteSD, Barcelona. The exhibition Petite Planète ... Exhibitions 2022 – Museun Sinclair Haus, Germany / MBAL, Switzerland — Inverting the Monolith is a multi-channel video installation by Ignacio Acosta, which expands on the artist’s research into extractive capitalism and ecological e... Exhibitons 2022 – Restitutions. Photography in Debt to its Past — Xavier Ribas talks about the future contained in the 19th century photographs of the nitrate industry at KBr, Barcelona. Conference cycle directed by Carles... Conference Papers 2022 – Intersectional Geographies — Traces of Nitrate participates in the exhibition Intersectional Geographies, curated by Jacqueline Ennis-Cole at the Martin Parr Foundation, Bristol. 27.01.2022... Exhibitions 2021 – Tenerife Espacio de las Artes — Trafficking the Earth is included in the exhibition Reassemblage, curated by Teresa Arozena at Tenerife Espacio de las Artes (TEA). Fotonoviembre 2021 Tenerife... Exhibitions 2021 – Universidad de Chile — Landscape, Experience, Production, 23 - 24 June 2021. Ignacio Acosta and Xavier Ribas present Traces of Nitrate in the course Landscape, Experience, Production,... Events 2021 – Bienal de Fotografia do Porto — Trafficking the Earth Espaço SP620 14 May 2021 – 26 June 2021. Espaço SP620 You can purchase two edition prints and support Espaço SP620: TtE1 and TtE2... Exhibitions 2020 – Working the Earth: The Anthropocene from a Feminist Viewpoint — Louise Purbrick participates in a gallery discussion on the Anthropocene with Alice Owen and Leny Olivera Rojas at Fabrica, Centre for Contemporary Art. ... Events 2020 – Practicing Landscape: Land, Histories and Transformation symposium — Louise Purbrick delivers the Keynote Beyond Loss: Landscapes and Histories, Glasgow School of Art, 3rd November 2020. Practicing Landscape: Land, Histories and... Conference Papers 2020 – Transformations Journal — Trafficking the Earth: Documents on Nitrate, Copper and Capitalism. Transformations Journal, Issue 33: Mineral Transformation and Resource Extraction: Pasts... Publications 2019 – Viscosity—Mobilizing Materialities — Lutsky K, Salooje O, Scott EE, Viscosity—Mobilizing Materialities, University of Minnesota, 2019. ISBN 978-0-36-835667-4 "This volume, inspired by the 2017 World ... Publications 2019 – Centro de Arte y Naturaleza (CDAN) — El tráfico de la Tierra – Trafficking the Earth 18 Dec 2019 – 12 April 2020. Trafficking the Earth is presented at CDAN, Centro de Arte y Naturaleza, in Hues... Exhibitions 2019 – Assembly: Extractable Matters — Ignacio Acosta, Louise Purbrick and Xavier Ribas discuss the Traces of Nitrate research project. Assembly: Extractable Matters is a two-day gathering at the... Events 2019 – Tales from the Crust — Solo exhibition by Ignacio Acosta at Arts Catalyst, London 26 Sept 2019 – 14th Dec 2019. Arts Catalyst announces a new exhibition and programme investigating t... Exhibitions 2019 – Deindustrialisation and Globalisation: Another History of Latin America in East London — Conference paper delivered by Louise Purbrick in the Annual symposium "Postindustrial imaginaries: beyond progress, memory and loss". 09:00-17:30, Wednesday 27... Conference Papers 2019 – Traces of Nitrate: The Documentation of Historical Loss — Conference paper delivered by Louise Purbrick and Xavier Ribas in the Arts Of Extraction Symposium, University of Essex, 31 January - 1 February 2019. From the... Conference Papers 2019 – Trafficking the Earth: Past Resistance, Future Reclamation — Conference paper delivered by Louise Purbrick at Photography and Resistance Research Symposium, University of Brighton, 29-30 January 2019. Research Symposium... Conference Papers 2018 – Postcards from Chile and Images from an Archive: Nitrate and the 1973 Coup — Louise Purbrick, "Postcards from Chile and Images from an Archive: Lighting the Nitrate of the 1973 Coup". Humanities 2018, 7, 115; DOI:10.3390/h7040115. ISSN... Publications 2018 – Silvertown and Salitre: A Heritage of Global Capital — Conference paper delivered by Louise Purbrick, Tangible-Intangible Hertiages, AMPS (Architecture-Media-Politics-Society), University of East London, 13-15 June,... Conference papers 2018 – The Photographer's Gallery — Xavier Ribas' photographic work included in Viewpoint #9. Read Fergus Heron's article Photography and... Publications 2018 – Desripiadores: Industrial Photography and the Memory of Worker’s Resistance, Chile — Conference paper delivered by Louise Purbrick in Pictures of War: The Still Image of Conflict since 1945, Manchester School of Art, 23-25 May 2018. A conference... Conference Papers 2018 — Copper Geographies — Copper Geographies (2018) has been published by Editorial RM (México/Barcelona), 2018 The book invites the viewer on a journey of copper from raw material ... Publications 2018 — Visualizing the Impacts of AIM-listed Mining Firms — Visualizing the Impacts of AIM-listed Mining Firms is a workshop organized by Louise Purbrick (University of Brighton) and Paul Gilbert (Sussex University) as part... Events 2018 — Mutating Ecologies in Contemporary Art: Matter, Ethics and Subjectivity — Ignacio Acosta delivers a talk at the international symposium organised by 'Art, Globalization, Interculturality' research group of the Universitat de Barcelona.... Conference Papers 2018 — Resolution is not the Point — Trafficking the Earth is part of the Photo 50 exhibition at The London Art Fair, January 2018, curated by Hemera Collective. 'Resolution is not the point'... Exhibitions 2018 — Museo de la Solidaridad Salvador Allende — TRAFFICKING THE EARTH, a photographic installation of 336 images and texts, 35,5 x 27,5 cm each, is now part of the collection of Museo de la Solidaridad Salvador... Events 2017 — Trafficking the Earth — Published on the occasion of the exhibition Trafficking the Earth at the Museo de Arte Contemporáneo [MAC], Santiago, Chile [08.09.2017 – 12.11.2017] and the sy... Publications 2017 — Environmental Futures: Architecture and Green Technology in the Lithium Triangle — Royal College of Art, Thursday 19 October 2017. In a context of transition from fossil fuels to “clean” energy the MA Environmental Architecture programme at the... Events 2017 — World of Matter: Mobilizing Materialities — Katherine E Nash Gallery, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis. September 14 - December 9, 2017 Mobilizing Materialities brings together seven works produced by... Exhibitions 2017 — Symposium Visuality, Materiality and Mining — Museo de Arte Contemporáneo Universidad de Chile, Santiago, 08 Sept 2017. A multidisciplinary symposium exploring the visual and material culture of mining ... Events 2017 — Trafficking the Earth — Museo de Arte Contemporáneo Universidad de Chile, Santiago, 07 Sept - 12 Nov 2017. Capitalism changes everything. It has altered our relationship to the Earth. ... Exhibitions 2017 — It Would Never Be Quite The Same Again — Fundació Antoni Tàpies, Barcelona 2017. 12 pages, 29 x 39.5 cm, softbound. ISBN: 978-84-945596-4-8 Purchase Book here Artist book published on the o... Publications 2017 — Coquimbo & Swansea — Ignacio Acosta presents 'Coquimbo & Swansea' at the National Waterfront Museum, Wales. Site-specific installation of photographs and texts from series 'Coquimbo... Exhibitions 2017 — 4,543 Billion: The Matter of Matter — An exhibition curated by Mariana Cánepa and Max Andrews [Latitudes] at the Musée d'Art Contemporain de Bordeaux. 29.06.2017 – 07.01.2018 What is at stake when a... Exhibitions 2017 — Notes on the Index: Photograph, Trace, Subject — Xavier Ribas presents Nitrate in a symposium organised at the Whitechapel Gallery as part of the exhibition A Handful Of Dust, curated by David Campany, 17 June... Events 2017 — Landscapes of Abandonment roundtable — Ignacio Acosta presents the project 'Traces of Nitrate' at Birkbeck, University of London. To accompany Freddy Dewe Mathews’ exhibition ‘El Encanto’ at the Peltz... Events 2017 — Conflicted minerals and artistic practices workshop — Ignacio Acosta presents 'Copper Geographies' in Arts Catalyst, London, 5 April 2017. Ignaco was invited to talk about his research during a one-day workshop... Events 2017 — University of Seville — Xavier Ribas delivers a lecture on his project Nitrate in the two-day course 'Investigación / Fotografía' organized by the University of Seville research group C... Events 2017 — University of Leeds — Ignacio Acosta presents 'Copper Geographies' to Land2's staff and students. Ignacio was invited by Andrea Thorma and Judith Tucker, who are both members of... Events 2016 — Slade School of Arts — Ignacio Acosta delivers a lecture on his current research 'Intuitive Project'. The project explores the work of Chilean-born, painter, poet, playboy and boxer,... Events 2016 – Land, Ownership, Resources, Labour — A discussion between Louise Purbrick and Kay Watson, Hermera Collective, Brighton Photo Fringe, Sites and Citations, ONCA Gallery, Brighton, 23 September 2016. Events 2016 — After the Conversations of Algiers. Delirium and Truce — Xavier Ribas takes part in the exhibition 1989: After the Conversations of Algiers: Delirium and Truce, curated by Carles Guerra. 1989. After the Conversations... Exhibitions 2016 — Nitrate: The Photographic and the Archaeological Trace — Conference paper presented by Louise Purbrick at the conference On the Trace: Passing, Presence and the Persistence of the Past. University of Copenhagen, 22-23... Conference Papers 2016 — The Copper Geographies of Chile and Great Britain — Ignacio Acosta completed a practice-based PhD titled 'The Copper Geographies of Chile and Britain: A Photographic Study of Mining'. Acosta's photographic... Copper Geographies 2016 — Miss Chuqicamata, the Slag exhibited in Ch.Aco Art Fair, Santiago, October 2016 — 56 photographs mounted con aluminium and perspex and a bilingual text on the political history of Chuquicamata. Miss Chuquicamata, the Slag Fundación ... Exhibitions 2016 — Goldsmith's Research-Practice Seminar Series — Xavier Ribas presents Traces of Nitrate to Goldsmiths' Visual Anthropology Department's staff and students. Moderator and organiser: Dr Isaac Marreno.... Events 2016 — Mining Photography: The 'Oficina Alianza and Port of Iquique 1889' — Louise Purbrick, Anales del Instituto de Investigaciones Estéticas, VolumeXXXIX, Issue number110 Published: 1 May 2017 Abstract: In 1899, Mr Smail, the ... Publications 2016 — Noorderlicht Photofestival — A selection of 'Copper Geographies' by Ignacio Acosta were exhibited at Noorderlicht Photofestival, Museum Belvédère in Heerenveen, Netherlands, 22 May – 3 July. ... Exhibitions 2016 — Nitrate Ruins: The Photography of Mining in the Atacama Desert, Chile — Louise Purbrick, Journal Of Latin American Cultural Studies, Volume 26, Issue number 2, pages 253-278. Language: English Published: 2 May 2017 Abstract: A... Publications 2016 — Cahiers d'Enquêtes Politiques. Vivre, Expérimenter, Raconter — Contributors: Marie-Pierre Brétas, Pierre Cabanes, Daniel Colson, Didier Demorcy, Ursula Gastfall, Marc Monaco, Isabelle Stengers, Xavier Ribas. CAHIER ... Publications 2016 — Invisible Topographies. Critical Strategies Between Art and Geography — Publication of the 1st International Symposium Topografías invisibles. Estrategias críticas entre Arte y Geografía, held at the University of Barcelona on 28th and 2... Publications 2016 — Land/Water — Ignacio Acosta presents Copper Geographies on Traffic: Movement / Place / Flow / Mobility Conference at Plymouth University on Friday 15 April. Conference Events 2016 — Co-Curate Magazine 01, February 2016 — Xavier Ribas' Nitrate project featured in the fisrt issue of Co-Curate Magazine. Edited by Aaron Schuman and Isabelle Evertse. Presented at The Photographer's... Publications 2016 — Symposium: Artists in the Field – Ephemeral Landscapes and Experimental Geographies — Ignacio Acosta presents his work at Parasol Unit, London, on 16 January 2016. The symposium was organised Temporary School of Geography (TSOEG). It considers... Events 2015 — It Would Never Be Quite The Same Again — Developed as three large, detailed photographs and two found images, alongside artist’s texts and copies of original documentation, It Would Never Be Quite The Same ... Nitrate Geographies 2015 — Temporary School of Experimental Geograpghy — Ignacio Acosta joins the platform Temporary School of Experimental Geography (TSOG), an itinerant network of artists sharing ideas and responses to landscape... Publications 2015 — Oficina Paccha — This album contains forty nine photographs which document the production process of sodium nitrate around 1880s at Oficina Paccha, in the Atacama Desert, Chile. The... Nitrate Geographies 2015 — Metallic Threads — A series of photographs exploring the mutation and transformation of Chilean copper and its global hyper-mobility. Metallic Threads consists of a series of... Copper Geographies 2015 — Visuality, Materiality and Mining Symposium — A multidisciplinary symposium hosted by the Traces of Nitrate Project, exploring the visual and material culture of mining industries. Thursday 25 June 2015,... Events 2015 — Ignacio Acosta joins European Prospects — European Prospects: Visual Explorations in an Undiscovered Continent is a collaborative project which uses photography and contemporary art to examine questions of... Publications 2015 — Oficina Alianza and Port of Iquique 1899: the Photographic Album and the Nitrate Trade — Conference paper presented by Lousie Purbrick at the International Conference of Historical Geographers, Royal Holloway, University of London, 7 July... Conference Papers 2015 — LOOK International Photography Festival — Ignacio Acosta was invited to develop a research-lead artist residency in Liverpool between March and April 2015. This residency was set up to research and map... Events 2015 — Depresiones Intermedias — Ignacio Acosta takes part in a group exhibition at Parque Cultural, Valparaíso, 12 Sept – 12 October 2015. The installation consist of a table with photographs, ... Exhibitions 2015 — Scratches of Wealth — A photographic series exploring copper fragments of Sudley House, Liverpool. Scratches of Weath explores fragments of Sudley House, a Victorian house with... Copper Geographies 2015 — Nitrate. Museo Universidad de Navarra, October 2015 - March 2016 — The exhibition Nitrate was co-produced by MACBA and the Museo Universidad de Navarra, in collaboration with the Bluecoat, Liverpool. It toured to The Bluecoat,... Exhibitions 2015 — LME Invisible Corporate Network — Work exploring a network of thirty five companies trading within the London Metal Exchange (LME) within the City of London. The LME opened in 1877 using a... Copper Geographies 2015 — Nitrate. The Bluecoat, Liverpool, April - June 2015 — The exhibition Nitrate was co-produced by MACBA and the Museo Universidad de Navarra, in collaboration with the Bluecoat, Liverpool. It toured to The Bluecoat,... Exhibitions 2015 — World of Matter — Nitrate joins World of Matter, a multimedia project providing an open access archive on the global ecologies of resource exploitation and circulation. Work of... Publications 2015 — It Would Never Be Quite The Same Again. Espai Visor — Valencia, Nov 2015 - Jan 2016. Developed as three large, detailed photographs and two found images, alongside artist’s texts and copies of original d... Exhibitions 2015 — Universitat Politècnica de València — Xavier Ribas presents his photographic research produced as part of the Traces of Nitrate project, 20 November 2015. Events 2015 — It Would Never Be Quite The Same Again. Galeria ProjecteSD — Barcelona, April - May 2015. Developed as three large, detailed photographs and two found images, alongside artist’s texts and copies of original d... Exhibitions 2015 — Fototazo — Ignacio Acosta's project featured in Fototazo, a Latin American photography online journal based in Colombia. Fototazo Publications 2015 — Plymouth University — Xavier Ribas presents Traces of Nitrate to the MA Photography students at Plymouth University, 14th January 2015. Events 2014 — Nitrate. Museu d'Art Contemporani de Barcelona (MACBA), June - October 2014 — The exhibition Nitrate was co-produced by MACBA and the Museo Universidad de Navarra, in collaboration with the Bluecoat, Liverpool. It toured to The Bluecoat,... Exhibitions 2014 — Coquimbo & Swansea — The copper ore extracted in the remote geographies of Coquimbo, Chile, were shipped mainly to Wales and smelted in the Lower Swansea Valley between 1840 and 1880.... Copper Geographies 2014 — Collodion Prints and Corrugated Iron: Photography, Materiality and The Nitrate Trade — Conference paper presented by Louise Purbrick at the Photographic History Centre, De Montford University on 11 November 2014. Abstract On the surface of slag... Conference papers 2014 — Fields of Craters Within and Without’: The Landscapes of Chilean Nitrate and British Shells — Conference paper presented by Louise Purbrick at the University of York on 21st October 2014. Abstract High explosives that tore apart the land and bodies of... Conference Papers 2014 — Vestigios Imposibles — Xavier Ribas takes part in a group show at Espai d'Art Contemporani de Castelló (EACC), 30th May 2014 – 31 August 2014. Curated by Mercedes Vicente and Pep Be... Exhibitions 2014 — Nitrate — Museu d'Art Contemporani de Barcelona [MACBA] Barcelona 2014. 176 pages; 23 x 31,5 cm Softbound, jacket. ISBN: 978-84-92505-66-1 (English edition) ISBN:... Publications 2014 — The British Empire and the Great War: Colonial Societies / Cultural Responses — Conference paper presented by Louise Purbrick at the International Conference Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, 20th Feb 2014 - 22nd Feb 2014. Conference Papers 2014 — Culturas, La Vanguardia, 01.01.2014 — Xavier Ribas' article on Chilean nitrate and the First World War. La Vanguardia, Culturas, 01.01.2014 Publications 2014 — The Ruins of Nitrate Mining in Chile: A Photography of Loss?’ — Conference paper presented by Louise Purbrick at the seminar Visualising Latin American Antiquities: Photography and the Material Past, Royal Anthropological... Conference Papers 2014 — Quaderns Num 194, Feb/March 2014 — Louise Purbrick and Xavier Ribas' article about the project Traces of Nitrate. Quaderns Num 194, Feb/March 2014 PDF Publications 2014 — Transformaciones. Arte y Estética desde 1960 — Xavier Ribas presents NITRATE at the Centro Andaluz de Arte Contemporáneo, Seville, as part of the seminar 'Transformations. Art and Aesthetics from 1960. Key ... Events 2014 — Monstrous Constructions: The Documentary Dispositive in Action — Louise Purbrick ('Mining and Photography: Capturing Nitrate Lands’) and Xavier Ribas present the project TRACES OF NITRATE and lead a three day workshop at the C... Conference Papers 2014 — Dispositivo 2/Plataforma Editable — Artist Residency, 2014 Ignacio Acosta takes part in a artist residency organised by curator Rodolfo Andaur. Acosta presented his PhD investigation Copper... Events 2014 — Registrar o Crear. Nuevos planteamientos de la imagen documental — Xavier Ribas and Carles Guerra talk about the project Traces of Nitrate at the Fundación Telefónica, Madrid, 11th February 2014. The conversation is part of the ... Events 2014 — World Art Research Seminar (WARS) — University of East Anglia. Xavier Ribas presents the AHRC funded project Traces of Nitrate: History and Photography Between Britain and Chile. School of Art... Events 2014 — Urban Encounters 2014. Movements, Mobilities, Migrations — Xavier Ribas delivers the inaugural keynote on the photographic project 'Nitrate' in the 2014 Urban Encounters conference at Tate Britain. Urban Encounters... Conference Papers 2014 — Biennial of the End of the World — Site-specific installation of Copper Geographies, curated by Fortunata Calabro in Mar del Plata, Argentina, 2014. This site-specific installation consisted of... Exhibitions 2014 — Copper Geography: Photography and the Politics of Representation of the Mining Industries — Paper presented by Ignacio Acosta at the 'Photography and Theory Conference', Cyprus, 5 December, 2014. Abstract The paper examines the dynamic relationship... Events 2014 — A History of Detonations — Twelve posters that folded become pages of the Nitrate exhibition catalogue. A History of Detonations is a set of 12 posters that folded become pages of the... Nitrate Geographies 2014 — Fields of Craters Within and Without: A Material and Immaterial History of Chilean Nitrate and British Shells — Conference paper presented by Louise Purbrick at the conference 'The British Empire and the Great War: Colonial Societies / Cultural Responses', Nanyang... Conference Papers 2014 — Photography and Mining — Ignacio Acosta's artist talk at the Centro Cultural Santa Inés, La Serena, Chile on 29 June 2014. The presentation focused on a series of fieldwork explorations ... Events 2013 — History and Materiality Between Chile and Britain in Late Nineteenth Century Nitrate Trade — Conference paper presented by Louise Purbrick at the V&A/RCA History of Design of Design Seminar, 14 February 2013
. Conference Papers 2013 — Photography and Capitalism — Conference paper presented by Louise Purbrick at the Philosophy Politics Aesthetics seminar, University of Brighton on 21 November 2013. --- ‘In the end, t... Conference Papers 2013 — From The High-Rises Like Rain — Photographs of the streets around St Mary Axe and Bishopsgate in the City of London. Text: Nitrate companies listed in the London Stock Exchange Year-Book of... Nitrate Geographies 2013 — Critical Urban Ecology Seminar — Paper presented by Ignacio Acosta, University of Brighton, 13th February 2013. The paper discussed the photographic work developed in Chuiquicamata mining... Events 2013 — Invisible Topographies: Critical Strategies Between Art and Geography — Xavier Ribas delivers a keynote lecture on the project Traces of Nitrate at the 1st International Symposium Invisible Topographies: Critical Strategies Between Art... Conference Papers 2013 — Surface Exposure — Ignacio Acosta takes part in a group exhibition curated by Johanna Lowry in which Ignacio presented a site specific installation of Copper Geographies. University... Exhibitions 2013 — Chuquicamata. A Corporate Mining Town: Bounded Territory Within a Territory — Conference paper presented by Ignacio Acosta, at the research conference 'Beyond Gated Communities', University of Brighton, 27th May 2013. Paper published... Publications Conference Papers 2013 — Traces of Nitrate: Mining history and photography between Britain and Chile — A week of events at the School of Arts, Birkbeck, University of London, including a seminar, a workshop, an exhibition of work in progress, and a gallery talk, 11th... Events Exhibitions 2013 — Re-Contested, Research Conference — Ignacio Acosta presets Copper Geographies at the Chelsea College of Art and Design, 8th May 2013. The multidisciplinary research conference theme revolved around... Events 2013 — Traces of Nitrate. Photography, Financial Capitalism and the Labour Movement — Museu d'Art Contemporani de Barcelona [MACBA]. Saturday 5th October 2013. The seminar, co-organised with the Museo Universidad de Navarra, contains various... Events 2013 — Oh Chair Oh Flesh, Treignac Project — Xavier Ribas takes part in an international group exhibition that explores ideas of cultivation with particular reference to Georges Bataille's writings on the... Exhibitions 2013 — Mining Chile: Traces of Nitrate — Conference paper presented by Louise Purbrick at the seminar Critical Urban Ecology: Urban Territories, University of Brighton. 13th February 2013 Conference Papers 2013 — Nitrate Trade and Photography Between Chile and Britain — Conference paper presented by Louise Purbrick at the seminar Picturing Latin America: Rethinking Film and Photographic Archives, Centre for Iberian and Latin... Conference Papers 2013 — Traces of Nitrate. Photography, Financial Capitalism and the Labour Movement — Museo Universidad de Navarra [MUN]. Thursday 10th October 2013 The seminar, co-organised with the Museu d'Art Contemporani de Barcelona, contains various... Events 2013 — The Handle of a Shovel: History and Materiality Between Chile and Britain in Late Nineteenth Century Nitrate Trade — Conference paper presented by Louise Purbrick at the V&A/RCA, History of Design, London, 14 February 2013. Abstract On the surface of slag heap in an... Conference Papers 2013 — Traces of Nitrate: Archives and Landscapes Between Britain and Chile — Conference paper presented by Louise Purbrick at the Centre for Iberian and Latin American Visual Studies with the History and Theory of Photography Research... Conference Papers 2013 — Antofagasta Plc, Stop Abuses! — Through a document and a series of photographs, Antofagasta Plc, Stop Abuses! explores the symbolic case of Caimanes, heavily impacted by Los Pelambres copper mine a... Copper Geographies 2012 — High-rise — A series of photographs exploring urban sprawl in Iquique linked to the ‘boom and bust’ of copper. These photographs were taken in 2012 in Iquique, in the heart ... Copper Geographies 2012 — Material Histories: Antipodean Perspectives — Conference paper presented by Louise Purbrick at the University of Massey, New Zealand on 15 November 2012. Abstract On the surface of slag heap in an... Conference Papers 2012 — Sulphuric Acid Route — A series of landscape photographs exploring the 'camanchaca' in the Atacama Desert. The 'camanchaca' describes a unique meteorological condition consisting of... Copper Geographies 2012 — Three Moves Are as Bad as a Fire — 170 photographic glass plates of the planet Mars taken in June and July 1907 from Oficina Alianza by The Lowell Expedition to the Andes (2013). Text: Extracts... Nitrate Geographies 2012 — And the Far Silence of Brooding Star Time — Negatives and lantern slides by Mabel Loomis Todd, taken at Oficina Alianza during June and July 1907. Photographed at Yale University Library, New Haven.... Nitrate Geographies 2012 — Desert Trails — A series of photographs of abandoned nitrate fields in the Atacama Desert. Desert Trails presents a detailed, yet fragmented panoramic view of the Atacama... Nitrate Geographies 2012 — Miss Chuquicamata, the Slag — A series of photographs about the disintegration of Chuquicamata, a former corporate mining town in the Desert of Atacama. Chuquicamata is a former mining town... Copper Geographies 2011 — Tobacco — A collection of tobacco wrappers recovered from the rubbish dumps of abandoned nitrate towns and oficinas in the Atacama Desert. Collection Gjorgi Gjuranovic,... Nitrate Geographies 2011 — Northiana — Element 1 [Odds and Ends] — Jar containing a sample of Chilean nitrate (c.1880s), owned by nitrate investor and monopolist John Thomas North (1842-1896), known as t... Nitrate Geographies 2011 — Gibbsiana — Element 1 — Specimen of Araucaria Araucana planted in the gardens of Tyntesfield, the country house and estate near the city of Bristol which belonged to the Gibbs f... Nitrate Geographies 2010 — Twenty-Eight Points — Element 1 — Prospective excavation in one of the rooms of the School of Santa María in Iquique a few weeks before its demolition in January 2011. Visible inside the ... Nitrate Geographies 2010 — Vistas Fotográficas de las Faenas y Puertos Salitreros — Photographic album documenting the production process of Sodium Nitrate at Oficina Alianza in 1899. The album documents the different stages and processes... Nitrate Geographies 2010 — Salitreras de Tarapacá, by Louis Boudat (1889) — The album of photographs Salitreras de Tarapacá, made by Louis Boudat in 1889, was put together on the occasion of the first "combination" of nitrate producers, a ... Nitrate Geographies 2010 — Caliche Fields — Views of caliche fields at Oficina Alianza and samples of discarded rock around the craters opened by the explosions. Caliche Fields (2010). Photographs © ... Nitrate Geographies 2010 — I Write Your Names On My City Walls — Double channel video installation, 35'22 minutes (loop), sound, text (2010). I write Your Names on my City Walls is a video installation that looks at the... Nitrate Geographies 2009 — Santa María de Iquique: Una Arqueología de la Violencia — Symposium at UNIACC University, Santiago, 9th June 2009. Speakers: Andrea Jösch, Claudia Robles, Ignacio Acosta, Manuela Badilla, Pablo Artaza and Xavier Ribas. ... Events 2009 — Oficina Alianza and Port of Iquique 1899 — Album of photographs sent in 1900 as a souvenir from Chile to Henry Hucks Gibbs, Lord Aldenham, in London. In 1900 this album of photographs was sent to Lord... Nitrate Geographies