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The project, a third mountain, is an imaginary acti(vati)on of embodying telluric memories. It is immaterial because it is a non-existent mountain, which has become an inverted opening due to extractions by mining corporations. We never know the origin of what we consume: cell phones, computers, batteries and houses. All are made of minerals. Mining corporations have overwhelming power in capitalist demands and in the sphere of (inter)national public policies. Through visceral images of mineral extraction, a third mountain aims to propose a possible listening at current mining situations and their environmental and economical impact on our planet.
It all started when I received 35mm color slides by a Brazilian mining company MBR(Minerações Brasieliras Reunidas-Brazilian Mining United), which illustrate glorious activities; men operating machinery against mountain, trucks and trains carrying minerals, landscapes violated by human intervention, etc. This is my ongoing research on contemporary mining activity and its holistic implications principally in Brazil, but also found in a global scale in various fields, from construction industry to electronic device fabrication to salt mining. I would like to define mining as any activity related to extracting mineral materials from the earth, be it iron, petroleum, lithium, copper, etc. And salt, one of the largest consumed minerals on this planet, also used in photographic emulsion.
Tetsuya Maruyama (Yokohama, 1983) is an artist whose transdisciplinary practice encompasses film, text, performance, sound, ideas, installations, and so on (not necessarily in that order). His work re-contextualizes found, banal materials and textures as a liminal record of everyday observations.
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