Research Catalog

Title

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

Publication

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

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Holdings

Details

Additional Authors

• Bandi, Nina
• Knowbotiq, editor.
• HeK (Haus der elektronischen Künste Basel), host institution.

Description

approximately 250 unnumbered pages : 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
• Switzerland

Genre/Form

Exhibition catalogs.

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.

ISBN

• 9783856169213
• 3856169210

LCCN

9783856169213

OCLC

• on1202593662
• 1202593662

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries