Shona Illingworth by Anthony Downey - ISBN: 9783956795534
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Art confronts digital tech’s impact on airspace, envisioning a human right.

Shona Illingworth

Topologies of Air

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  • Paperback

    288 pages

  • Release Date

    24 May 2022

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Summary

Topologies of Air and Lesions in the Landscape are two major bodies of work by Shona Illingworth. Informed by the artist’s long-term investigations into individual and societal amnesia, these projects critically examine the devastating psychological and environmental impacts of military, industrial, and corporate transformations of airspace and outer space.

Employing interdisciplinary research and collaborative processes, Illingworth’s practice uses creative methodologies to …

Book Details

ISBN-13:9783956795534
ISBN-10:3956795539
Author:Anthony Downey
Publisher:Sternberg Press
Imprint:Sternberg Press
Format:Paperback
Number of Pages:288
Release Date:24 May 2022
Weight:981g
Dimensions:254mm x 211mm x 22mm
About The Author

Anthony Downey

Anthony Downey is Professor of Visual Culture in the Middle East and North Africa within the Faculty of Arts, Design, and Media at Birmingham City University. He sits on the editorial boards of Third Text and Digital War, and is the series editor for Research/Practice (Sternberg Press).

Shona Illingworth is a Danish-Scottish artist known for her immersive video and multi-channel sound installations, and evocative, interdisciplinary research-led practice in which she explores the dynamic processes of memory, cultural erasure, construction of histories, and imagined futures in situations of social tension and trauma. Since 2012 her work has been concerned with examining impacts of accelerating geopolitical, technological and environmental change on the composition, nature and use of airspace and the implications for human rights. Her work has been exhibited internationally.

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