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URL:https://www.artinliverpool.com/events/open-eye-gallery-book-launch-wha
 t-the-mine-gives-the-mine-takes/
SUMMARY:Open Eye Gallery: Open Eye Gallery: Book Launch: What the Mine Give
 s\, The Mine Takes
DESCRIPTION:BOOK LAUNCH: WHAT THE MINE GIVES\, THE MINE TAKES\n\n\n\n\n24 F
 EBRUARY / 2 PM – 4 PM / FREE\, REGISTER\n\nSpaces are limited. If you
 ’re unable to attend\, please return your ticket at Eventbrite\n\nJoin u
 s for the book launch of What The Mine Gives\, The Mine Takes with Ana 
 Alenso\, editor and artist\, Lucía Pizzani\, artist contributor to the bo
 ok\, and Raquel Villar-Pérez\, curator at Impressions Gallery.\n\nLike a
  mighty river that flows and deviates from its course\, What The Mine Giv
 es\, The Mine Takes invites us on a journey to decipher the hidden preda
 tory logic within the mechanisms of gold mining exploitation and the resu
 lting socio-ecological devastation in the Guayana and Venezuela’s Amazo
 n regions. More than a warning\, this publication presents a collective a
 nd sensitive cartography of this mining conflict through a diversity of a
 rt projects\, poems\, essays\, diagrams\, satellite visions\, and documen
 tary images.\n\nIn this conversation between Ana Alenso\, editor and artis
 t\, Lucía Pizzani\, artist contributor to the book\, Raquel Villar-Pére
 z\, curator at Impressions Gallery\, and the public\, we will discuss the
  origins of the book\, the work of Latin American artists and how do they
  engage with communities affected by extractivist practices in their coun
 tries\, and how the singularity of Guayana and Venezuela informs global de
 bates on extractivism and climate emergency.\n\nAna Alenso. Berlin-based
  Venezuelan artist Ana Alenso’s artistic practice delves into the inter
 sections of socio-ecological consequences stemming from extractivism\, glo
 bal resource politics\, and the trade of precious metals and fossil fuels
 . Her installations are often temporary and closed-circuit assemblages\, 
 consisting of sculptures\, photographs\, sound\, and video. Her poetic\, 
 industrial\, yet darkly dystopian work is usually accompanied by field ex
 plorations and multidisciplinary collaborations in contexts of natural re
 source exploitation\, activism\, recycling\, and site-specific artistic pr
 actices.\n\nLucía Pizzani. Born in Caracas and based in London\, Pizzani
 ’s practice involves the body and self always informed by materiality. 
 Having worked as part of the environmental movement in Venezuela for many
  years\, these concerns are still very present in her research and produc
 tion. Recent exhibitions\, residencies and commissions include Planet B 
 Climate Change and the new sublime\, curated by Nicolas Bourriaud at Pala
 zzo Bolanni (Venice)\, Peckham24 (London)\, Casino Luxemburg (Luxemburg)\
 , TEA Museum (Tenerife)\, Casa Wabi and the Puerto Escondido Botanical Ga
 rden (Oaxaca\, Mexico)\, LaunchPad Lab (Charente\, France) and Hacienda L
 a Trinidad Art Centre (Caracas).\n\nRaquel Villar-Pérez. Raquel Villar-
 Pérez is the curator at Impressions Gallery in Bradford\, where she is 
 responsible for the exhibitions programme of the gallery\, commissions\, 
 and public events. Broadly\, she is interested in de- and anti- colonial 
 discourses within contemporary visual art from the Global Majority. Her f
 ocus is on the work of women-identified image-makers who tackle notions o
 f migration\, transnational feminisms\, social and environmental justice 
 in original expansive ways.\n\nImage: Marco Montiel Soto\n\n\n
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CATEGORIES:Events,Literature & Poetry
LOCATION:Open Eye Gallery\, Mann Island\, Liverpool Waterfront\, Liverpool\
 , L3 1BP\, Liverpool\, United Kingdom
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