@misc{65df3baaaaee498687abbbc2f55a0e29,
title = "On the origins of capital",
abstract = "On the Origins of Capital is a collaborative installation of works by James Farley, Jacob Raupach and Felix Wilson. On the Origins of Capital presents a dynamic installation of found objects, sculpture, text, still images, and video projects in an interdisciplinary exploration of the material, economic, and ecological entanglements of extractive and transformative industries in the Anthropocene.",
keywords = "photography, Mining history, coal consumption, post-photography, installation, exhibition, ecology, Capitalism, ecological thinking",
author = "James Farley and Jacob Raupach and Felix Wilson",
note = "Dr James T. Farley (PhD) is an artist, curator, and lecturer in photography based in Wagga Wagga, NSW, Australia. His practice builds narratives at the intersections of ecological, industrial and cultural concerns through photography in its expanding form. These stories muddy the waters of traditional Western dualistic thinking, to explore the more complex and interrelated ecological realities of the Anthropocene. His practice aims to contribute to a cultural transition, moving beyond narratives of life in the Anthropocene defined by anxiety and fear and focusing instead on the potential of shaping a more ethical and ecologically inclusive future for all. Jacob Raupach is an artist and publisher based in Melbourne, VIC. Jacob is currently an MFA candidate at University of Tasmania and holds a Bachelor of Visual Arts (Honours) from Charles Sturt University (2013). Jacob{\textquoteright}s practice exists at the intersections of photographs, artist books, sculpture and installation. He investigates the invisibility of labour, the relationship between natural and societal environments, and the ways in which art as a practice can help to alter and rewrite our perceptions of place and history. His work has continuously tried to address these issues through the production of artefacts that deal with abstract forces like capitalism, climate change and systemic invisibility and oppression via a realist and documentary aesthetic. Felix Wilson is an artist and PhD candidate based in Melbourne. His work explores contemporary relations between human and non-human species, particularly as they occur in places that exist as boundaries between the build environment and what might be considered natural places. For Wilson, it is in the edges and liminal spaces that we can begin to reconceptualise our place in the world, as interlinked and interdependent beings, engaged and implicitly a part of what Timothy Morton describes as the mesh of life forms. Using video, sound recording, and photography, the Wilson{\textquoteright}s work encourages viewers to engage with their own perceptual processes and to understand their relations with the quiet vitality of the non-human in new ways. ",
year = "2019",
month = apr,
day = "6",
language = "English",
publisher = "Wagga Wagga Art Gallery",
}