Events
July 22 - July 26: GNY Cinema, Film Screeing with Lucy Raven
Saturday, July 24, 2010
3:00 PM to 6:00 PM
Back to the Wasted
Future
Saturday, July 24 at 3pm
An illustrated talk by Lucy Raven about energy and entropy, via Lintong
Sunlight Cow Community, the Terracotta soldiers, and the ghosts of Mao Zedong,
Chiang Kai-shek, and Dr. Emmett Brown.
In Xi’an China, a small organization called the Insititute for Circular Economy
is turning shit into gold. Run by scientists and environmentalists in
partnership with the government, the group implements biodisel initiatives at
local livestock farms that convert methane emitted from cow manure into gas
that can be used by the surrounding community as well as sold to the country’s
electrical grid. It’s an idea dating back to the Great Leap Forward that the
Institute is attempting to recycle for a new financial climate—not a circling
so much as a doubling back—in the hopes of evincing a more enduring sense of
progress through decomposition. Like her film China Town, currently on
view as part of Greater New York 2010, this event continues Raven's project of
finding a visual form for the evolving material relations of an emerging world
economy.
