{"id":6439,"date":"2012-06-20T06:00:13","date_gmt":"2012-06-20T11:00:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/m.ammoth.us\/blog\/?p=6439"},"modified":"2012-06-20T16:06:11","modified_gmt":"2012-06-20T21:06:11","slug":"venue-interview-with-edward-burtynsky","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/m.ammoth.us\/blog\/2012\/06\/venue-interview-with-edward-burtynsky\/","title":{"rendered":"venue interview with edward burtynsky"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/m.ammoth.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/burtynsky_drylands-farming-no-7.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-6440\" title=\"burtynsky_drylands-farming-no-7\" src=\"http:\/\/m.ammoth.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/burtynsky_drylands-farming-no-7.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"525\" height=\"394\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<em>[Edward Burtynsky&#8217;s &#8220;Drylands Farming #7&#8221; &#8212; farms in\u00a0Monegros County, Aragon, Spain.]<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Geoff Manaugh and Nicola Twilley recently posted <a href=\"http:\/\/v-e-n-u-e.com\/Primary-Landscapes-An-Interview-with-Edward-Burtynsky\">an interview with infrastructural landscape photographer\u00a0extraordinaire\u00a0Edward Burtynsky<\/a>, as a component of their latest project, the continentally-roaming <a href=\"http:\/\/v-e-n-u-e.com\/\">Venue<\/a> (self-described as a &#8220;portable media rig, interview studio, multi-format event platform, and forward-operating landscape research base&#8221;). In it, Burtynsky aptly describes his work as &#8220;looking for the disconnected landscapes that provide us with the materials we need to live, build, and do everything we do&#8221;, which suggests that his photography could be understood as an attempt to achieve <a href=\"http:\/\/m.ammoth.us\/blog\/2012\/04\/minus-extraction\/\">the re-wiring of our understanding of the physical phenomenon of urbanization<\/a> from a well-bounded object characterized primarily by some threshold of density towards an operative (lively, pulsating) material network whose dendritic tentacles reach <a href=\"http:\/\/faslanyc.blogspot.com\/2012\/06\/1989-blackout-landscape.html\">deep into remote forests<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/v-e-n-u-e.com\/An-Underground-Forest-In-Search-of-Silver\">sink into and carve out mountains<\/a>, and <a href=\"http:\/\/m.ammoth.us\/blog\/2011\/09\/border-box\/\">even stretch <\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/m.ammoth.us\/blog\/2011\/03\/aerotropolis\/\">across oceans<\/a>. Which (beyond the immediate aesthetic impact of Burtynsky&#8217;s photographs, which can be awe-inspiring in large format) would explain why I am so fond of it.<\/p>\n<p><em>[You can <a href=\"http:\/\/v-e-n-u-e.com\/About\">learn more about Venue here<\/a>.]<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[Edward Burtynsky&#8217;s &#8220;Drylands Farming #7&#8221; &#8212; farms in\u00a0Monegros County, Aragon, Spain.] Geoff Manaugh and Nicola Twilley recently posted an interview with infrastructural landscape photographer\u00a0extraordinaire\u00a0Edward Burtynsky, as a component of their latest project, the continentally-roaming Venue (self-described as a &#8220;portable media rig, interview studio, multi-format event platform, and forward-operating landscape research base&#8221;). In it, Burtynsky aptly [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,15,3,25],"tags":[730,511,247,674,561,729,115,731],"class_list":["post-6439","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asides","category-infrastructure","category-landscape","category-landscapes-in-search-of-an-architect","tag-edward-burtynsky","tag-geoff-manaugh","tag-landscape-infrastructures","tag-landscape-materialism","tag-nicola-twilley","tag-object-oriented-urbanism","tag-photography","tag-venue"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/m.ammoth.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6439","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/m.ammoth.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/m.ammoth.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/m.ammoth.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/m.ammoth.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6439"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/m.ammoth.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6439\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6444,"href":"http:\/\/m.ammoth.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6439\/revisions\/6444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/m.ammoth.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6439"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/m.ammoth.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6439"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/m.ammoth.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6439"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}