3 René Dubos, quoted in McKee, “Art and the
8 Forest Law is a collaborative multimedia
End of Environmentalism,” Nongovernmental Politics (New York: Zone Books, 2007), 544.
installation comprising a synchronized double screen projection and a series of photo-text panels with historical material and newly designed maps by Paulo Tavares and Samaneh Moafi. In this text, I am writing mostly about the videos.
4 My knowledge of tar-sand extraction
derives from a wide array of papers presented at the international three-day conference Petrocultures at the University of Alberta in Edmonton, September 2012, and a field trip to Fort McMurray, an extraction frontier own in Northern Alberta. 5 Petro-capitalism is a term that designates
the particular capitalist logic of the global oil market. See Gavin Bridge, “The Hole World: Scales and Spaces of Extraction,” in New Geographies 2: Landscapes of Energy, ed. Rania Ghosn (Harvard Graduate School of Design, 2010), and Timothy Mitchell, Carbon Democracy: Political Power in the Age of Oil (London: Verso, 2011). 6 Dipesh Chakrabarty, lecture given at The
Anthropocene Project, Haus der Kulturen der Welt, January 2013. See also, David Archer, The Long Thaw: How Humans Are Changing the Next 100,000 Years of Earth’s Climate (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2009). 7 Timothy Morton, Hyperobjects. Philosophy
and Ecology after the End of the World (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2013).
9 The artist book Forest Law – Selva juridical,
ed. Ursula Biemann and Paulo Tavares (East Lansing: Broad Art Museum, State University of Michigan, 2014) sheds light on the history of the Amazonian oil frontier with a particularly focus on the case of Sarayaku. 10 Thomas M. Antkowiak, “Rights, Resources,
and Rhetoric: Indigenous Peoples and the Inter-American Court,” 2/23/2014. www.law.upenn.edu/live/files/ 2889-antkowiak35upajintll1132013 11 Michel Serres, The Natural Contract (Ann
Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1995). 12 Isabelle Stengers, “The Cosmopolitical
Proposal,” in Making Things Public: Atmospheres of Democracy, ed. Bruno Latour, Peter Weibel (Cambridge: MIT Press, 2005).