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Year:: 2023
Contributor:: Vanden Eynde, Maarten (Author)
Subject:: renewable energy; natural resources; conflict minerals; artistic freedom; contemporary photography; digital manipulation; Goma; DR; Congo; future fantasies
Extent:: pp.1-9
DOI: https://doi.org/10.26300/2vx0-nh93

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Abstract:: Renewable energy seems to be both inextricably and indiscriminately linked to the so-called ‘green energy transition,’ which is put forward as one of the necessary transitions to avoid further climate breakdown. Little attention is given to the extraction processes of the raw materials needed to produce and store renewable energy, or to the social disruption and inequality they bear and engender. Artist, documentary photographer, and journalist Pamela Tulizo is living and working in Goma, in North Kivu, Democratic Republic of the Congo, one of the most mediated conflictual and unresolved energy frontiers. In her work, she incessantly and without limitations renegotiates the iconography of black African woman throughout history, by restaging and (digitally) manipulating their representation in popular culture and media outlets. She includes raw materials and historical objects in the mix of her poignant alterations of the perceived reality of African women. In 2021, she opened Tulizo Elle Space, a cultural center that empowers women through art, while they metamorphose from merely carrying the burdens of the past into invincible Amazons of the future. This article is a conversation between Maarten Vanden Eynde and Pamela Tulizo about the urgency of shifting narratives related to the mysterious concept of renewable energy and the power of art to confront the present and imagine a different future.

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Vanden Eynde, Maarten, "Fictional Frontiers: On the Fallacies and Fantasies Surrounding Renewable Energy. A conversation with Pamela Tulizo" (2023). Commodity Frontiers. Brown Digital Repository. Brown University Library. https://doi.org/10.26300/2vx0-nh93

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Commodity Frontiers: The Journal of the Commodity Frontiers Initiative (CFI): 'Renewable' Energy Frontiers Issue 06

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Commodity Frontiers

Commodity Frontiers is the Journal of the Commodity Frontiers Initiative (CFI). Edited by a group of scholars and researchers from various disciplines and organizations in the CFI Network, the Journal explores the history and present of capitalism, contestation, and ecological …
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Fictional Frontiers: On the Fallacies and Fantasies Surrounding Renewable Energy. A conversation with Pamela Tulizo