Research Catalog

Title

Swiss psychotropic gold / Knowbotiq & Nina Bandi (eds).

Author

Knowbotiq (Artists' group), artists.

Publication

• Basel, Switzerland : Christoph Merian Verlag, [2020]
• ©2020

Items in the Library & Off-site

Details

Additional Authors

• Bandi, Nina
• HeK (Haus der elektronischen Künste Basel), host institution.
• Artists' Books Collection (NYPL, Print Collection)

Description

1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations, portraits; 21 cm +

Summary

Up to 70% of gold which is traded worldwide passes through Swiss refineries. However, this happens largely unseen and unnoticed by a wider public. Not only that, it is a centuries-long history of Swiss commodity trade being caught up in colonial, and later postcolonial entanglements which remains largely obscured by public debate. The Swiss mythology of neutrality transforms the often violent and?dirty? material complexities of mining and trading into an opaque and orderly form of technocracy, discretion and virtual finance. At the same time, by being instrumental for early modern industrialization as well as contemporary finance, Swiss trading activities have influenced vivid cultural, affective and moral economies. They have contributed to Swiss wealth, but also to national narratives of independence, safety and white supremacy.00In this hybrid media publication gold together with its entanglements and metabolisms serves as starting point in order to track down the elusive and often invisible paths of molecules, affects and violence. Alongside knowbotiq?s artistic practice emanating from the project?Swiss Psychotropic Gold? (2016-17) and contributions by collaborators, it presents contributions focusing on struggles around illegal gold mining, racialized processes of extraction, deep sea mining and raw material politics alchemic trading of gold, the social history of the molecule, molecular strikes, golden amnesia and psychotropic refineries.

Series Statement

Schriftenreihe des Institute for Contemporary Art Research (IFCAR), Zürcher Hochschule der Künste (ZHdK) ; volume 23

Uniform Title

Schriftenreihe des Institute for Contemporary Art Research (IFCAR), Zürcher Hochschule der Künste (ZHdK) ; Bd. 23.

Subject

• Gold in art > Exhibitions
• Gold industry > Exhibitions
• Commerce in art > Exhibitions
• Metals > Refining > Switzerland > Exhibitions
• Commerce in art
• Gold in art
• Gold industry
• Metals > Refining
• Artists' books
• Switzerland

Genre/Form

• Exhibition catalogs.
• Artists' books – Switzerland – 21st century.

Note

• SD card includes video- and audiofiles.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Exhibitions (note)

• Catalog of an exhibition held at HeK (Haus der elektronischen Künste), Basel, May 27 - August 2, 2020.

Call Number

MEMZ (Bandi) 21-2864

ISBN

• 9783856169213
• 3856169210

LCCN

9783856169213

OCLC

1202593662

Author

Knowbotiq (Artists' group), artists.

Title

Swiss psychotropic gold / Knowbotiq & Nina Bandi (eds).

Publisher

Basel, Switzerland : Christoph Merian Verlag, [2020]

Copyright Date

©2020

Type of Content

still image

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

computer

Type of Carrier

volume

other computer carrier

Series

Schriftenreihe des Institute for Contemporary Art Research (IFCAR), Zürcher Hochschule der Künste (ZHdK) ; volume 23

Schriftenreihe des Institute for Contemporary Art Research (IFCAR), Zürcher Hochschule der Künste (ZHdK) ; Bd. 23.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references.

Exhibitions

Catalog of an exhibition held at HeK (Haus der elektronischen Künste), Basel, May 27 - August 2, 2020.

Local Note

Artists' Books Collection (NYPL, Print Collection).

Added Author

Bandi, Nina, editor.

HeK (Haus der elektronischen Künste Basel), host institution.

Artists' Books Collection (NYPL, Print Collection)

Other Standard Identifier

9783856169213

Research Call Number

MEMZ (Bandi) 21-2864

JQD 21-411