THE EXPLOITATION OF THE EARTH AND HUMANS

THE EXPLOITATION OF THE EARTH AND HUMANSVisual essay - Exhibitions Curator - The Western Front Society, Vancouver

February 2014

How does environment change a culture and how does culture change an environment?CLAUDIO CRAVERO

My current curatorial concerns are around artistic and social issues in the broader field of human ecology, exploring the relationships between humans and their natural, cultural and built environments.

CLAUDIO CRAVERO VIA BELFIORE 13, 10125 TURIN - ITALY

M. +39 347 1114863E. [email protected]

Ettore Favini48 suns, 2012photographic printcm 100x100

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“My center is everywhere”Commissioned by the contemporary art program at the Natural History Museum of London.Lucy+Jorge Orta, Perpetual Amazonia, 2010, diptych video projection, 23:40

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He-HeNuage Vert, Ivry-sur-Seine

2010, still from video, 12’

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N. Visualization and sonification in real time of atmospheric data measured at the North Pole

Andrea Polli, N., 2006, project in collaboration with sound artist Joe Gilmore and scientist Patrick Market

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Canadian tree planting

1 s e a s o n3 5 p l a n t e r s10 million trees

7 8 D A Y S

6Documentary by Jason Nardella, 2012, distributed by Insomnia World Sales

Utopia vs. Dystopia

Towards possible worlds

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Lucy+Jorge OrtaAntarctic VillageNo Borders, 2010

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The Antarctic Treaty System (ATS) signed in 1959 by Argentina, Australia, Belgium, Chile, The United States, France, The Unite Kingdom, Japan, Norway, New Zealand, South Africa, and the USSR, states that the sixth continent Antarctica is a common territory, open to allpeaceful peoples.

Art. 1 Banning all kind ofmilitary activity on thecontinent.

Art. 2 Antarctica is a landof freedom for scientific and cultural investigations and cooperation.

ANTARCTIC TREATY SYSTEMDecember 1, 1959

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Antarctica World Passport Delivery Kit

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