Underworld Ecologies
This exhibition is organised by the LSE Law School in association with LSE Arts.
Curated by Marie Petersmann (LSE Law School), Siva Thambisetty (LSE Law School), Alexandra Klegg (LSE Law School), and María Montero Sierra (TBA21–Academy). Hosted by LSE Arts.
Underworld Ecologies dives into remote and often inaccessible spaces across oceans and lands that remain unmapped, ungoverned, and invisibilised through long lineages of erasure. The artistic and scientific works offer a glimpse into the unseen. They witness the enclosed petrochemical plants in ‘Cancer Alley’ in Louisiana (US) and the invisibilised racial intoxication of Black bodies and lands, through the work of artist, activist, and writer Imani Jacqueline Brown. They present unknown species and organisms from the abyssal seafloor of the Pacific Clarion-Clipperton Zone, through materials brought back from scientific expeditions by marine biologists Adrian Glover (Natural History Museum) and Daniel Jones (National Oceanography Centre). They trace the imperceptible physical force of sonic movements materialising into fossils, through the work of artist Dominique Koch. The video, sound, photographic, and material installations reveal threshold ecologies at the boundary between the living and nonliving. The exhibition thereby reflects on and problematises different forms of extraction – of labour, fossils fuels, oceanic minerals, and scientific knowledge.
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Underworld ecologies (lse.ac.uk)