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

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。采掘业正在侵蚀这些冰川，并且在缺水的时候，将冰块转移到工业用途。冰川的未来是有争议的。全球矿业和当地生计之间的水冲突已经很尖锐，智利的水权堆积在有利于采矿利益的方面，而采矿利益可能越来越多地--可能完全依赖于固体水供应--。虽然采矿业是一个全球性行业，但英国在其开采网络中占有特殊的位置；伦敦是在其股票市场交易的最富有公司的总部所在地。非激进主义加速发展的未来被认为是不可避免的，最近还被断言为全球经济从新冠肺炎疫情中复苏所必需的。但冰川系统并不是简单地受制于企业机构：环保主义者、活动家、土著和当地社区想象着环境正义的另一个未来。冰冻未来将记录冰川遗址的非激进主义在现在和未来是如何竞争的，优先考虑那些受采矿作业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记录过去事件的手段的能力，并将相机重新引向未来。对安第斯冰川铜和锂开采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。取而代之的是将冰川描绘成永恒与世隔绝的崇高物体，切断了当地生态和全球经济的固体水储存，《冰冻未来》将记录智利安第斯山脉当代的冰川提取带，并展示冰的纠缠和冰川在全球系统中的位置。将绘制当地采矿地点和全球资本化开采材料交换地点之间的联系地图，并使其可见。合作艺术实践的发展将建立非殖民主义的观点，由此可以记录关于风景生活的土著本体论以及利用自然资源的概念。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非激进主义对储存在冰冻的固体水中的未来的影响的知识能够与利益相关者、专业观众和更广泛的公众分享，从大学的艺术和生态研究人员到企业股东。《冰冻未来研究》将制作一部由大型摄影展组成的《纪录片处置》，编辑成视听放映，以供更广泛的发行。这两种传播形式都将增加对非激进主义经济对冰川和全球生态影响的了解。智利冰川采掘区的研究人员和活动家之间的合作扩展到欧洲的环保主义利益攸关方团体，方法是参加与展览和放映同时举行的不同论坛，促进关于纠正采矿的物质不平等和实现各种形式的未来正义的公开辩论。冰冻未来的合作纪录片将有助于对地球风景的批判性审美。对传统的自然表现和去殖民风景摄影的可能性的批判将形成学术出版物：专著、期刊文章和会议论文。因此，冰川系统与充满无数电力交流的全球世界的精彩隔离在《冰冻的未来》中得到了重新审视，因采矿而破裂的景观被揭示为生活空间。

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.