This show is a multimedia, multi-venue, cross-border art intervention that will investigate extractive industry in all its forms (from mining to drilling to reckless exploitation of water, soil, trees, marine life, and other natural resources.) The project will expose and interrogate extraction's negative social and environmental consequences, from the damage done to people, especially indigenous and disenfranchised communities, to ravaged landscapes and poisoned water to climate change and its many troubling implications.
A constellation of simultaneous and overlapping exhibits, installations, performances, site-specific work, land art, street art, publications, and cross-media events, EXTRACTION will take place in multiple locations throughout the U.S. and abroad during the Summer of 2021. The project will be de-centered, non-hierarchical, and self-organizing, which means that artists, art venues, curators, and art supports will participate and collaborate as they see fit, including helping the project expand geographically. Everyone can be both creator and catalyst. At a time of growing despair and paralysis, people from all backgrounds and levels of experience – from the amateur to virtuoso – can take action. We invite everyone to join us in creating an international art ruckus.
Nothing like EXTRACTION has been attempted before: All art forms, all happening at roughly the same time, with hundreds of artists spread across at least hour continents (North and South America, Europe, and Australia.) And all addressing a single theme – the suicidal consumption of the plant’s natural resources, which is the most pressing environmental issue of our time, encompassing all others, including climate change.
Maggy Rozycki Hiltner - Superfund(d)
Holter Museum of Art
12 E. Lawrence St.
Helena, MT 59601
United States
406-442-6400