Maarten Vanden Eynde
Subtitle: digging up the future
By: edited by Katerina Gregos ; essays by Sven Beckert [and four others] ; translation, Michael Lomax
Contributors: Kunstmuseum aan Zee; Kunsthalle (Mulhouse)
Publisher: Mercatorfonds
Published: 2020
Place of publication: Brussels
Language: eng
Number of pages: 228
ISBN-13: 9789462302679
Copyright date: 2020
Subjects: Exhibitions
Other titles: Digging up the future
Description: Digging up the Future is a monograph of the work of the multi-disciplinary Belgian artist Maarten Vanden Eynde. It brings together works from the past 20 years (2000-2020) of his research-based practice which spans diverse social, economic, environmental and anthropological perspectives. The book is built up as an alternative encyclopaedia of the history of human kind, investigating our influence on planet Earth and the residue of our material culture. It covers some of the most important subjects of our time from extractionism, ecology, and colonialism to the after-effects of colonialism. It proposes an industrial and post-industrial archaeology of the future, mapping out a speculative 'future-fiction' of our evolutionary traces on earth.
Notes: Catalog of an exhibition held at Mu.ZEE, Ostend, 2021 and La Kunsthalle, Mulhouse, 2022.