Deadly Affairs: An Art Exhibition about Toxicity

Authors

  • Antonia Alampi

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.5282/rcc-springs-942

Abstract

Deadly Affairs was an art exhibition seeking to draw public attention to various stories about consumer-product toxicity and its intersections with capitalism, imperialism, and race. Historically, lead-based white pigment was especially prominent and valued, despite its known poisonous side effects. The victims of this lethal pursuit were not just the artists, but, more often than not, the low-wage laborers who manufactured and produced these pigments.

Author Biography

  • Antonia Alampi

    Antonia Alampi is a cultural organizer, curator, and currently the director of Spore Initiative, Berlin. She was artistic co-director at SAVVY Contemporary (2016–2020), curator at Kunsthal Extra-City (2017–2019) and at Beirut in Cairo (2012–2015), and co-curator of sonsbeek20-24. She has been involved in many cultural and artistic projects, movements, research and publications, pursuing social, political, and environmental justice and supporting nonconformist forms of reading and interpreting live on Earth. She occasionally teaches, writes essays, edits books, and gives public talks.

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Published

21-07-2022

Issue

No. 1 (2022)

Section

Articles

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