
Landscape with(out) Locus
- Publisher
- NERO Editions
- Year
- 2023
- ISBN
- 978-88-8056-230-6
- Specifications
- 16 x 23.5 cm
160 pages
English
Texts by T.J. Demos, Tiago Torres-Campos, Tiffany Kaewen Dang, Hagit Keysar and Ariel Caine, Teresa Mendes Flores, Chris Malcolm, Irmgard Emmelhainz
Second volume in the Negotiating Images series
How do we understand, discuss and visualise nature today, now that the human race has reached the very last corner of the world? The publication interprets landscape as an ever-changing social, economic and ecological construct, addressing questions of power, identity and natural resources and following histories of surveillance and colonialism, with photographic and post-photographic images as central to the way we interact with the world. Texts by scholars and artists cover scopic regimes and shaped geographies, the myth of the intact and unspoiled, the use of landscape to solidify colonial hegemonies, Jerusalem's geofence, the history of the virtual globe and the surface of the earth as a recording device. They are counterposed with images from historical and contemporary art, documentary photography, photo reportage and AI-generated imagery.