Solid Water, Frozen Time, Future Justice: Photography and Mining in the Andean Glaciers

固体水、冻结的时间、未来的正义：安第斯冰川的摄影和采矿

• 批准号: AH/V00915X/2
• 负责人: Louise Purbrick
• 金额: $ 34.37万
• 依托单位: Royal College of Art
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Research Grant
• 财政年份: 2022
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2022 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=AH%2FV00915X%2F2
• 关键词: Solid; Water; Frozen; Time; Future

Solid Water, Frozen Time, Future Justice (hereafter Frozen Future) is a collaborative visual research project that will document the effects of copper and lithium mining on glacier systems of the Chilean Andes. Extractive industries are encroaching upon these glaciers, and at times of water scarcity, diverting their ice for industrial purposes. The future of glaciers is contested. A water conflict between global mining and local livelihoods is already acute with water rights in Chile stacked in favour of mining interests that may increasingly, perhaps exclusively, depend on solid water supplies. Whilst mining is a global industry, Britain has a particular place in its networks of extraction; London is home to the head offices of the wealthiest corporations which trade in its stock markets. A future of accelerating extractivism is assumed to be inevitable and, most recently, asserted as essential to global economic recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic. But glacier systems are not simply subject to corporate agency: environmentalists, activists, indigenous and local communities imagine another future of environmental justice. Frozen Future will document how extractivism at glacial sites is contested in the present and projected into the future, prioritising the visibility and the voices of those most affected by mining operations. The research re-thinks the capacity of photography as a means of recording past events and re-directs the camera towards the future.Visual research at sites of copper and lithium extraction in Andean glaciers will create new documentary photography, drone imagery, audiovisual projections, two and three-dimensional maps as well as written records and textual analysis. In place of the Romantic representations of glaciers as sublime objects of timeless isolation that have disconnected their stores of solid water from local ecologies and global economies, Frozen Future will record the contemporary glacial extractive zones of the Chilean Andes and demonstrate the entanglements of ice and the position of glaciers within global systems. Connections between local sites of mining and global sites of exchange of capitalised mined materials will be mapped and made visible. The development of a collaborative arts practice will establish de-colonial perspectives from which indigenous ontologies of the life of landscapes as well as concepts of use of natural resources can be recorded. Collaborations with Chilean environmentalists, activists, local communities and museum curators will enable knowledge of the effects of extractivism upon a future stored in solid water, frozen in ice, to be shared with stakeholders, specialist audiences and wider publics, from arts and ecology researchers in universities to corporate shareholders. Frozen Future research will generate a 'documentary dispositive' composed of a major photographic exhibition, edited into audiovisual screenings for wider distribution. Both forms of dissemination will increase understanding of the effects of extractivist economies upon glacial and global ecologies. Collaborations between researchers and activists at Chilean glacial extractive zones are extended to environmentalist stakeholder groups based in Europe through participation in the different forums accompanying exhibition and screenings facilitating open debate about redressing the material inequalities of mining and achieving forms of future justice. Frozen Future's collaborative documentary will contribute to a critical aesthetic of the Earth's landscapes. A critique of conventional representations of nature and the possibility of de-colonising landscape photography will form academic publications: a monograph, journal articles and conference papers. Thus, the splendid isolation of glacial systems from a global world filled with a myriad of electrical exchanges is re-examined in Frozen Future and landscapes ruptured by mining are are revealed as living spaces.

固体水，冰冻时间，未来正义（以下简称冰冻未来）是一个合作的视觉研究项目，将记录铜和锂开采对智利安第斯山脉冰川系统的影响。采掘业正在蚕食这些冰川，在水资源短缺的时候，将冰川转移到工业用途。冰川的未来备受争议。全球采矿业与当地生计之间的水资源冲突已经非常尖锐，智利的水权倾向于矿业利益，而矿业利益可能越来越依赖于固体水供应，甚至可能完全依赖于固体水供应。虽然采矿业是一个全球性的产业，但英国在其开采网络中占有特殊的地位；伦敦是在其股票市场交易的最富有公司的总部所在地。加速采掘的未来被认为是不可避免的，而且最近被断言为全球经济从COVID-19大流行中复苏的关键。但冰川系统并不仅仅受制于企业机构：环保主义者、活动家、土著和当地社区想象着另一种环境正义的未来。《冰冻的未来》将记录冰川地区的开采活动在当前和未来是如何受到质疑的，并优先考虑那些受采矿活动影响最大的人的可见度和声音。这项研究重新思考了摄影作为一种记录过去事件的手段的能力，并将相机重新指向未来。对安第斯冰川中铜和锂提取地点的视觉研究将创造新的纪实摄影、无人机图像、视听投影、二维和三维地图以及书面记录和文本分析。《冰冻的未来》将会记录智利安第斯山脉的当代冰川采取区，并展示冰的纠缠和冰川在全球系统中的位置，而不是将冰川浪漫地描述为永恒的孤立，将其固体水的储存与当地生态和全球经济分离开来。将绘制当地采矿地点与全球资本化采矿材料交换地点之间的联系并使之可见。合作艺术实践的发展将建立去殖民的视角，从中可以记录景观生活的土著本体以及自然资源使用的概念。与智利环保主义者、活动家、当地社区和博物馆馆长的合作，将使开采对未来的影响的知识储存在固体水中，冻结在冰中，与利益相关者、专业观众和更广泛的公众分享，从大学的艺术和生态学研究人员到公司股东。“冰冻未来”的研究将产生一个“纪实专题”，由一个主要的摄影展组成，编辑成视听放映，以供更广泛的传播。这两种传播形式都将增进对采掘经济对冰川和全球生态的影响的了解。智利冰川采掘带的研究人员和活动家之间的合作，通过参加不同的论坛，促进关于解决采矿的物质不平等和实现未来正义形式的公开辩论，扩展到欧洲的环保主义利益相关者团体。《冰雪未来》的合作纪录片将为地球景观的批判性美学做出贡献。对传统自然表现形式的批判和风景摄影去殖民化的可能性将形成学术出版物：专著、期刊文章和会议论文。因此，在《冰冻的未来》中，冰川系统与充满无数电交换的全球世界的辉煌隔离被重新审视，被采矿破坏的景观被揭示为生活空间。