[spectre] Spill >> Forward by Transnational Temps (Review).

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Spill >> Forward by Transnational Temps (Review).

Review by Rob Myers.

Spill >> Forward by Transnational Temps is an 'Online Exhibition' of 
images and other media on the theme of oil spills. With some works shown 
at the MediaNoche gallery in New York from July 30 - October 10, 2010. 
Transnational Temps is an international arts collective concerned with 
ecology, sustainability, and media. Since its formation in 2001 it has 
produced a series of critically acclaimed works and exhibitions under 
the banner Earth Art for the 21st Century. Working primarily from Europe 
and the United States, works to date have emphasized participation, 
tactical media, and spanning the sometimes awkward divide between 
activist advocacy and aesthetics.

http://www.furtherfield.org/displayreview.php?review_id=409

As media attention wanes, the impact of British Petroleum's Deep 
Horizon, off-shore drilling disaster continues to unfold. Artists 
worldwide respond to this new ecological catastrophe in a group show 
organized by Transnational Temps, an arts collective exploring the 
interstices of art, ecology and technology. For Andy Deck, one of the 
founding members of Transnational Temps and the curator of the show, 
"After a decidedly unsuccessful round of climate negotiations in 
Copenhagen, the disaster in the Gulf of Mexico frames this exhibition of 
Earth Art for the 21st Century."

"Now hidden from view by BP's media campaigns and other de facto 
censoring actions, the images of oil-covered birds struggling to breathe 
and fly, oil and dispersant-coated fish, dolphins and whales washing up 
dead while most sink to the ocean floor, have all but vanished. 
Partially filling the void are the artists showing here who are 
recreating topographies: mapping the course of a deadly shadow over our 
shores and waters; and reinterpreting the sea, its rising levels and 
largesse, before the vicissitudes of man and nature."

Aritists Include - Fred Adam and Verónica Perales, Susanne Slavick, 
Jesus Andres, Gene Gort, Jeremy Newman, Graham Bell, Gavin Baily, Ume 
Remembers, Russell Ritell, Gratuitous Art Films, Matusa Barros, Mark 
Cooley, Alex George, Jessie Mann, Cristina Osuna Migueles, Sabina Antón 
Cardenal, Fred Adam and Verónica Perales, S. Slavick and Andrew E. 
Johnson, Patrick Mathieu, Henry Gwiazda, Chris Basmajian, Adrián Madrid, 
Geoffrey Michael Krawczyk, Guillermo Hermosilla Cruzat, Tim Geers, 
Maria-Gracia Donoso, Collette Broeders, Alyce Santoro, Terri Garland, 
Sereal Designers, Jessica Eik, UBERMORGEN.COM and Teister, Chris 
Dascher, Irad Lee, Adrienne Klein, Eric Benson, Virginia González, Luke 
Munn, Skwarek and Hocking...

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