Rules of Extraction

A web-based research project examining mining through the lens of water

Rules of Extraction is a web-based research project that expands on the exhibition World of Matter: Exposing Resource Ecologies, presented at the Leonard & Bina Ellen Art Gallery in 2015. This project builds on World of Matter’s approaches and issues through a methodology that ‘thinks with water’ to unpack the extraction and dispossession perpetuated by Canadian mining companies, with a critical focus on the rules and norms upon which these extractions are built.

I worked with art history & philosophy scholar Joëlle Dubé to conceptualize and realize the project as part of the Ellen Gallery's 2021 Expanding Exhibitions Residency.