Extraction: Art on the Edge of the Abyss MEGAZINE
The “Megazine” is the CODEX Foundation’s publication for Extraction: Art on the Edge of the Abyss, a multimedia, multi-venue, cross-border art intervention which seeks to provoke societal change by exposing and interrogating the negative social and environmental consequences of industrialized natural resource extraction.
Minnesota Center for Book Arts is pleased to participate in this global coalition of artists, venues, creators with the exhibition Solastalgia: Book Art and the Climate Crisis.
This book is many different things at once. Partly a group catalog of extraction-related artwork, each artist or creator’s individual contribution documents their own personal investigations into the extraction question, addressing a specific issue or set of issues under the broader umbrella of the Extraction Project. The project is by not limited to the visual arts—in these pages you will also find poetry, critical writings, philosophical treatises, manifestos, musical scores, conversations, historical or found photographs, and much more. The words and images collected here can thus be seen as discrete stories and aesthetic investigations that nonetheless make up part of a larger ongoing story in which we are all participants (the reader included). A number of the submissions printed here offer snapshots of research projects that are ongoing, while others provide merely a small window into a larger body of work.
8.25” x 10.75”
*This item is eligible for a 10% membership discount.
The “Megazine” is the CODEX Foundation’s publication for Extraction: Art on the Edge of the Abyss, a multimedia, multi-venue, cross-border art intervention which seeks to provoke societal change by exposing and interrogating the negative social and environmental consequences of industrialized natural resource extraction.
Minnesota Center for Book Arts is pleased to participate in this global coalition of artists, venues, creators with the exhibition Solastalgia: Book Art and the Climate Crisis.
This book is many different things at once. Partly a group catalog of extraction-related artwork, each artist or creator’s individual contribution documents their own personal investigations into the extraction question, addressing a specific issue or set of issues under the broader umbrella of the Extraction Project. The project is by not limited to the visual arts—in these pages you will also find poetry, critical writings, philosophical treatises, manifestos, musical scores, conversations, historical or found photographs, and much more. The words and images collected here can thus be seen as discrete stories and aesthetic investigations that nonetheless make up part of a larger ongoing story in which we are all participants (the reader included). A number of the submissions printed here offer snapshots of research projects that are ongoing, while others provide merely a small window into a larger body of work.
8.25” x 10.75”
*This item is eligible for a 10% membership discount.
The “Megazine” is the CODEX Foundation’s publication for Extraction: Art on the Edge of the Abyss, a multimedia, multi-venue, cross-border art intervention which seeks to provoke societal change by exposing and interrogating the negative social and environmental consequences of industrialized natural resource extraction.
Minnesota Center for Book Arts is pleased to participate in this global coalition of artists, venues, creators with the exhibition Solastalgia: Book Art and the Climate Crisis.
This book is many different things at once. Partly a group catalog of extraction-related artwork, each artist or creator’s individual contribution documents their own personal investigations into the extraction question, addressing a specific issue or set of issues under the broader umbrella of the Extraction Project. The project is by not limited to the visual arts—in these pages you will also find poetry, critical writings, philosophical treatises, manifestos, musical scores, conversations, historical or found photographs, and much more. The words and images collected here can thus be seen as discrete stories and aesthetic investigations that nonetheless make up part of a larger ongoing story in which we are all participants (the reader included). A number of the submissions printed here offer snapshots of research projects that are ongoing, while others provide merely a small window into a larger body of work.
8.25” x 10.75”
*This item is eligible for a 10% membership discount.
