Folding the Periphery traces the 960km expanse of rail
corridor between Sydney and Melbourne, examining liminal spaces along
the line that house and support extractive industries and link them to
the global economic market. Mapping these in-between spaces, Folding the Periphery
condenses and collapses the complex material, economic and industrial
relationships between regional and metropolitan areas into a mesh of
images, videos and sculptures within the gallery space.
The arrogant conceit of the cyber-economy, for
that matter of the very idea of the postindustrial era, is that we
disavow our dim but nagging awareness that nearly all energy - whether
converted to electricity or derived from direct combustion - comes from
oil or other hydrocarbon fossil fuels, or from fissionable uranium
refined from yellow-cake ore: solids, liquids, and gases that are
extracted from the earth and transported in bulk.
—Allan Sekula, Between the Net and the Deep Blue Sea (Rethinking the Traffic in Photographs) 2002, pg. 33
Folding the Periphery traces the 960km expanse of rail
corridor between Sydney and Melbourne, examining liminal spaces along
the line that house and support extractive industries and link them to
the global economic market. Mapping these in-between spaces, Folding the Periphery
condenses and collapses the complex material, economic and industrial
relationships between regional and metropolitan areas into a mesh of
images, videos and sculptures within the gallery space.
The arrogant conceit of the cyber-economy, for
that matter of the very idea of the postindustrial era, is that we
disavow our dim but nagging awareness that nearly all energy - whether
converted to electricity or derived from direct combustion - comes from
oil or other hydrocarbon fossil fuels, or from fissionable uranium
refined from yellow-cake ore: solids, liquids, and gases that are
extracted from the earth and transported in bulk.
—Allan Sekula, Between the Net and the Deep Blue Sea (Rethinking the Traffic in Photographs) 2002, pg. 33