Looking back to the Post-Extractive Assemblies Lab

Over four months, the Post-Extractive Assemblies Lab became a shared viewing and reading table, a space for experimentation, and discussion, and it now comes to its end. Convened by Salomé Lopes Coelho (Postdoctoral Researcher, EcoViolence) and Ana Robles Pérez (KABK The Hague), the Lab brought practices of theory and artistic practice into dialogue around post-extractivist propositions emerging in artistic, cinematic, and research-based work.

As a collective, process-oriented space, the Lab hosted artists, designers, researchers, and performers, from nearby towns to Sydney, who shared ongoing work and privileged critical inquiry over finished outcomes. Topics ranged from visual methods in the environmental humanities and moving image practices within territories affected by ecological violence, to heat-stressed bodies, third landscapes, the weaponising of rivers, and anti-extractivist curatorial practices.

Below are some snippets from each session, March to June.