Plastic Vanitas and Amani Vanitas: Contextual Workshop, Residency, and Publication.

• Main Author: Mariele Neudecker
• Format: Dataset
• Language: unknown
• Published: 2021
• Subjects: Art history; theory and criticism not elsewhere classified; Digital and electronic media art; Fine arts; Performance art; collection; archive; vanitas paintings; symbolism; sublime; perception; metaphor; human psychology; reality; representation; human impact; climate change; pollution; dichotomy; environment; art and science; functionality; painting; photography; beauty; Art; Performance and Installation Art; Fine Arts (incl. Sculpture and Painting); Electronic Media Art; Arctic; Guillaume; Norway; Climate change
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.17870/bathspa.14291468.v1; https://figshare.com/articles/dataset/Plastic_Vanitas_and_Amani_Vanitas_Contextual_Workshop_Residency_and_Publication_/14291468

Emerging from residencies at the Museum of Design in Plastics and Amani, an abandoned post colonial science research centre in Tanzania, the Vanitas works question what constitutes an archive and how responses to it might forge new connections, shedding light on our anthropological heritage, sustain...