"Extractivist art"
 

Fremeaux & Jordan identify a trend within the art world: "extractivist art"
 
18: "Extractivism takes 'nature,' stuff, material from somewhere and transforms it into something that gives value somewhere else"
 
"[M]any artists make a career out of sucking value out of disaster, rebellion, animism, magic, whatever is a fashionable topic at the time, and reguritat[ing] it into un-situated detached objects or experience elsewhere. Anywhere in fact, as long as the codes of the world of art function"

> from Isabelle Fremeaux and Jay Jordan's We Are 'Nature' Defending Itself: Entangling Art, Activism and Autonomous Zones (2021)

> tagged with #concept, #depressing, #art

> created Jun 15, 2025 at 2:10:47 PM


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