Michael Salu
michelsalu.bsky.social
Michael Salu
@michelsalu.bsky.social
Interdisciplinary actioner.
📕RED EARTH out now from Calamari Archive
📙CYBERNETICS, OR GHOSTS? : Stories from Myth to A.I out now from Subtext Books
archives & AI 7 March https://shorturl.at/VMji6
https://michaelsalu.com/
Huge thank you to @graywolfpress.bsky.social and editor, Yuka Igarashi!
May 15, 2025 at 3:36 PM
April 12, 2025 at 2:13 PM
You can read a lot more in the multimedia online extension of this project at unthinking.photography/commissions/...
The exhibition is open until June 15, so if you in London, I'd say its worth your while :)
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Unthinking Photography is an online resource that explores photography's increasingly automated, networked life.
unthinking.photography
April 12, 2025 at 2:12 PM
Appropriating time as a material of intervention, the films attempt to disrupt the power of this frozen frame. By filming the photographs as the first creative measure of the compositions, we add another temporality to the frame.
April 12, 2025 at 2:11 PM
The ‘natives’ as simple commodities, comparable to local fauna, to be found, controlled and utilised to deliver the fruits of these lands for a singular extractive idea of progress.
April 12, 2025 at 2:10 PM
Colonial photography sets the vernacular for Western understanding of foreign landscapes and locals as docile material of conquest fantasy. Flora is rendered scenic, pretty, and benign.
April 12, 2025 at 2:10 PM
Each of these films begins with a filmed photograph from the Cecil Rhodes archive kept at the Bodleian Libraries, Oxford. The footage becomes data for exploration, the beginnings of a time study.
April 12, 2025 at 2:09 PM