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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Adobe Garamond Pro"">This is excellent work, but the map location link doesn’t seem to work.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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“What the world needs is a good housekeeper.”<span style="font-family:"PMingLiU",serif"><br>
</span>Aviva Rahmani, PhD<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Affiliate INSTAAR, University of CO. at Boulder<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="https://www.nyfa.org/ArtistDirectory/ShowProject/1446ef3a-0a9d-4449-96be-74023eb9c376"><span style="color:#0563C1">https://www.nyfa.org/ArtistDirectory/ShowProject/1446ef3a-0a9d-4449-96be-74023eb9c376</span></a><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Watch “Blued Trees”: <a href="https://vimeo.com/135290635"><span style="color:#0563C1">https://vimeo.com/135290635</span></a><br>
<a href="http://www.ghostnets.com/"><span style="color:#0563C1">www.ghostnets.com</span></a><br>
www.gulftogulf.org<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">From: </span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black"><empyre-bounces@lists.artdesign.unsw.edu.au> on behalf of Renate Terese Ferro <rferro@cornell.edu><br>
<b>Reply-To: </b>soft_skinned_space <empyre@lists.artdesign.unsw.edu.au><br>
<b>Date: </b>Saturday, November 25, 2017 at 8:53 PM<br>
<b>To: </b>soft_skinned_space <empyre@lists.artdesign.unsw.edu.au><br>
<b>Subject: </b>[-empyre-] On Contamination: Brooke Singer and Joan Linder<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">----------empyre- soft-skinned space----------------------<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Dear –empyreans-, <o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">In light of our discussion this month on contamination, I wanted to mention the work of our fellow –empyre- subscriber Brooke Singer. Brooke, an artist in New York City, has been photographing Superfund Sites since 2006 and has a companion
database Toxic Sites US. The database charts 1,300 of the most deadly Superfund sites that the US Environmental Protection Agency labels as an “uncontrolled or abandoned place where hazardous waste is located, possibly affecting local ecosystems or people.
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<p class="MsoNormal">Brooke has spent hours photographing toxic hazardous waste sites across the US. Brooke read and researched many of these sites but in her quest to find the actual site she often found it difficult to actually pin point the locale because
many of these toxic sites are unmarked. <o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/vvb5xd/many-americans-still-live-on-or-near-toxic-waste">https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/vvb5xd/many-americans-still-live-on-or-near-toxic-waste</a><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="http://www.toxicsites.us/">http://www.toxicsites.us/</a><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">In nearby Niagra, New York the Love Canal neighborhood is situated on a landfill that the Hooker Chemical Company used to dump toxic waste as early as the 1920’s. In the 1970’s the model community and school were built on top of the landfill
site. The residents launched a grassroots uprising inspired by deadly health problems, high incidences of cancers and miscarriages. <o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Friend and colleague Joan Linder, the chair of the art department at the U. of Buffalo, created a series of renderings from observation at the Love Canal site. There is a great article in Art in America that talks about the work in detail.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="http://www.artinamericamagazine.com/reviews/joan-linder/">http://www.artinamericamagazine.com/reviews/joan-linder/</a><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Thought I would point out to our guests and subscribers these two artists working on issues of contamination.
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<p class="MsoNormal">Renate<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Renate Ferro<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Visiting Associate Professor<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Director of Undergraduate Studies<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Department of Art<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="mailto:rferro@cornell.edu">rferro@cornell.edu</a><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">_______________________________________________<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">empyre forum<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="http://empyre.library.cornell.edu">http://empyre.library.cornell.edu</a><o:p></o:p></p>
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