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Chicago, Illinois, US
over 4 years ago
Opening of OVERFLOW at Co-Prosperity in Chicago. With works inspired by Mississippi. An Anthropocene River. tinyurl.com/overflowchicago - johnwkim
Minneapolis, Minnesota, USAover 6 years ago
Sharing river stories with objects and images. - johnwkim
Minneapolis, Minnesota, USAover 6 years ago
The work continues. Even when it's -11 Celcius! over 6 years ago
over 6 years ago
Data sensing archive is now online. Visualizations and analysis to come. github.com/jkim5/miss-canoe- johnwkim
Kenner, Louisiana, USAover 6 years ago
Undead Oaks of the Anthropocene (MSY - Louis Armstrong Airport) - johnwkim
Gulf of Mexico, Louisiana, USAover 6 years ago
The Gulf. - johnwkim
Venice, Louisiana, USAover 6 years ago
River mile 10. Venice, Louisiana - johnwkim
New Orleans, Louisiana, USAover 6 years ago
Audobon park thanks the CHEVRON CORPORATION. Across the street from where we have been for the past week is this disturbing example of the greenwashing of the American petrochemical industry. Thank you Nick Brown for pointing it out. - johnwkim
Newcomb Art Museum, New Orleans, Louisiana, USAover 6 years ago
Annielaurie Erikson @Newcomb Art Museum: "When I first moved to Louisiana, I was struck by the appearance of oil refineries at night, which looked like strange forbidden cities. Soon after I started to photograph them, I was stopped by the police and told that refineries are indeed “unphotographable” according to post-9/11 regulations. This experience heightened my interest in them as photographic subjects.
Keeping a low profile, I began to systematically document refineries up and down the Mississippi River, using the afterimaging camera to render them as ghostly, mysterious constellations of light marked by unearthly color shifts. For me, these images evoke both a presence and an absence."
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New Orleans, Louisiana, USAover 6 years ago
Imagining schools, parks, communes, gardens and more along the Mississippi River as the final activity for the Imagination and Exhaustion seminar. Close up of Imagination Park. - johnwkim
New Orleans, Louisiana, USAover 6 years ago
Great day to get on an air boat(?) Headed to Carlisle, Louisiana for the Imagination and Exhaustion seminar. - johnwkim
Minneapolis, Minnesota, USAover 6 years ago
"Dam, Lock, Groyne: The Temporal Architecture of the Mississippi River". My short film about infrastructure in the Mississippi River plays tonight at 730pm as part of the Anthropocene River Campus screenings. - johnwkim
New Orleans, Louisiana, USAover 6 years ago
The view from the other side. Steven Diehl on the microphone. - johnwkim
New Orleans, Louisiana, USAover 6 years ago
River Journey canoes paddling into Nola as seen from above. Photo by Mary Tucker (via Monique Verdin). - johnwkim
Hahnville, Louisiana, USAover 6 years ago
Beachcombing for nurdles (plastic pellets) and shells - johnwkim
Plaquemine Island, Louisiana, USAover 6 years ago
Planning our route down Cancer Alley. Today we will pass the Dow, Shintech, Willow Glen, and other petrochemical plants. - johnwkim
Clinton, Mississippi, USAover 6 years ago
Rainbow tour of the Mississippi River Basin Model Waterways Experiment Station, located near Clinton, Mississippi, was a large-scale hydraulic model of the lower Mississippi River basin, covering an area of 200 acres. The model was built from 1943 to 1966 and in operation from 1949 until 1973. Construction crew included WWII prisoners of war from Rommel's Afrika Korps. Photo by Carlina Rossée. - johnwkim
Jackson, Mississippi, USAover 6 years ago
Paddling up to Cooperation Jackson. - johnwkim
Natchez, Mississippi, USAover 6 years ago
Cropped image of "Norman's Chart of the Lower Mississippi River" (1858), which shows the plantations from Natchez to New Orleans. To quote Edward Baptist's The Half Has Never Been Told: Slavery and the Making of American Capitalism: "Americans tend to cast slavery as a pre-modern institution... isolated in time and divorced from America's later success. But to do so robs the millions who suffered in bondage of their full legacy... The expansion of slavery in the first eight decades after American independence drove the evolution and modernization of the United States. In the span of a single lifetime, the South grew from a narrow coastal strip of worn-out tobacco plantations to a continental cotton empire, and the United States grew into a modern, industrial, and capitalist economy."
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