Black diamond dust

Birch, Jesse (editor.). Holder, Will, (editor.). Nanaimo Art Gallery (Nanaimo, B.C.) (Added Author).

Summary: This publication expands a 2014 multisite contemporary art exhibition that took place in Nanaimo, British Columbia, a small city on the eastern edge of Vancouver Island. The title refers to coal mining, an industry that has formed and fragmented communities through economic development, racial segregation, and labor inequity, while fueling the modern world. In this book, forgotten or under-acknowledged histories are investigated and discussed along with cultural forms that surround the practices of international coal mining. Contemporary artworks, poetry, essays, literature, folk songs, and archival images come together to extract meaning from this fossilized black carbon that continues to power our cities.0'Black Diamond Dust' is the first of three projects to engage the resource industries of Vancouver Island (coal mining, forestry, and fisheries) through contemporary art.0.

Record details

ISBN: 9783956792533
ISBN: 395679253X
Physical Description: print
134 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), music ; 24 cm
Publisher: Nanaimo, BC : Nanaimo Art Gallery : 2016.
Copyright: ©2016

Content descriptions

General Note:	Catalog of an exhibition held at Nanaimo Art Gallery, September 20-December 13, 2014. "Black Diamond Dust, the exhibition, took place from September 20 to December 13, 2014, in and around Nanaimo ..."--Back cover. CatMonthString:june.17
Immediate Source of Acquisition Note:	Donation (copy 2 only) ; 2018/1.