全球礦區社會和健康的隱藏負擔——銅色景觀 (Copperscapes)

Marisa Morán Jahn《銅色景觀 (Copperscapes)》
數位輸出／講座式表演錄像／尺寸依場地而定／2019

作品介紹

銅是一種存在於我們體內和我們所依賴的家居、城市、數位慾望和自身的礦物。雖然我們的身體依賴銅來正常運作，但全球南方地區由婦女和兒童高度勞動的掠奪性銅礦提取對他們的健康造成了不良影響。具體而言，對銅的過度暴露通常會導致威爾森氏病——肝衰竭、認知和神經併發症——其特徵是銅色的眼睛。在這些數位印刷品中，藝術家Marisa Morán Jahn將銅色的眼睛定位為「身體負擔」

[1]，這些負擔被礦區社區吸收，並且為了滿足他人對礦物依賴的需要而失去了身體主權。

Copper is a mineral that lives with(in) us and on which our households, cities, digital desires and selves depend. And while our bodies rely on copper to function properly, the rapacious extraction of copper disproportionately labored by women and children in the global South takes a deleterious toll on their health. Specifically, the overexposure to copper often results in Wilson’s disease — liver failure, cognitive and neurological complications — and whose tell-tale sign are copper-colored eyes. In these digital prints, artist Marisa Morán Jahn positions the copper-colored eyes as witnesses to the “body burdens” [1] absorbed by mining communities and the loss of bodily sovereignty to meet the needs of Others’ mineralogical dependencies. 

[1] Yusoff, Kathryn. A Billion Black Anthropocenes or None (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2019)

藝術家介紹

身為具有厄瓜多和華裔血統的藝術家，Marisa Morán Jahn的作品討論權力分配，「展示了藝術作為社會實踐可能性的典範」（ArtForum）。Jahn探索「市民空間和遊戲的激進藝術」（芝加哥論壇報）與移民家庭、家政工人和公共住房居民共同設計了從小型到城市尺度的藝術項目。Jahn的作品已透過聯合國、翠貝卡電影節、奧巴馬的白宮、威尼斯建築雙年展，以及BBC、CNN、PBS新聞時報、Univision Global等媒體報導，吸引了數百萬人的參與。她是聖丹斯電影節和創意資本的獲獎者，麻省理工學院（她的母校）的高級研究員，國家公共住房博物館的駐地藝術家，以及帕森斯/紐約新學院的綜合設計主任。她與Rafi Segal合著了一本名為《設計與團結》（哥倫比亞大學出版社，2023年）的書，並共同創辦了Carehaus，美國第一個以關懷為基礎的合作住房計畫（carehaus.net）。Sapar Contemporary藝廊為其代理。

An artist of Ecuadorian and Chinese descent, Marisa Morán Jahn’s works redistribute power, “exemplifying the possibilities of art as social practice” (ArtForum). Jahn, who explores “civic spaces and the radical art of play” (Chicago Tribune), codesigns small to urban-scale projects with immigrant families, domestic workers, and public housing residents. Jahn’s work has engaged millions via the United Nations, Tribeca Film Festival, Obama’s White House, Venice Biennale of Architecture, and through media coverage in the BBC, CNN, PBS Newshour, The New York Times, Univision Global, and more. She is a Sundance and Creative Capital grantee, a Senior Researcher at MIT (her alma mater), artist in residence at The National Public Housing Museum, and the Director of Integrated Design at Parsons/The New School. With Rafi Segal, Jahn co-authored a book, Design & Solidarity (Columbia University Press, 2023) and co-founded Carehaus, the U.S.’s first care-based co-housing project (carehaus.net). She is represented by Sapar Contemporary.

更多藝術家資訊：https://www.marisajahn.com/

展出日期｜2023.09.01 – 2023.09.06
展出地點｜臺灣當代文化實驗廣場 C-LAB
攝影紀錄｜張耀翔

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