All About Logistics

This work is part of the project:

Surya Mattu, Sarah Rothberg, and I had a Process Space residency through LMCC on Governor’s Island. We spent a few months traveling by boat(s) to meet, study, and discuss logistics. We took Matthew Sparke’s free online class on Globalization and Personal Impacts, and read Deborah Cowan’s The Deadly Life of Logistics. We participated in Open…

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A Guide to the Harmonized System

2016

Chris Piuma and Marina Zurkow, editors
Contributors Stacy AlaimoHeather DavisKathleen FordeDylan GauthierElena GlasbergKalliopi MathiosSteve MentzAstrida NeimanisChris PiumaElspeth ProbynSarah RothbergPhil SteinbergRita WongMarina Zurkow

Published by Punctum Books
To order a print copy or download the ebook:

https://punctumbooks.com/titles/moremore-a-guide-to-the-harmonized-system/
This work is part of the project:

This experimental “brick” of a book intervenes in the Harmonized Commodity Description and Coding System (also known as the HS Code). Tucked into the alphabetically sorted 26,000 lines of code are poetic, personal, and scholarly annotations that are focused on ocean-related entries.

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More&More (the invisible oceans) catalogue

2016

More&More (The Invisible Oceans), is a catalog of the eponymous project’s first exhibition at bitforms gallery in New York, featuring full-color images of the art on display (including video stills, bespoke bathing suits, and fungal sculptures), as well as an introduction by Marina Zurkow and a conversation between Zurkow and international curator Kathleen Forde.

https://punctumbooks.com/titles/moremore-the-invisible-oceans/
This work is part of the project:

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More&More (bitforms gallery)

2016
Custom animated software in custom steel powder-coated housing, sculptures, shelving, crates, bathing suits, website, books

Production: Sarah Rothberg
Bathing suit/web site collaborators: Sarah Rothberg, Surya Mattu
Software: Sam Brenner
Web development: Neil Cline
Studio assistance: Ariana Martinez

Commissioned in part by Borusan Contemporary
This work is part of the project:

The ocean makes up 71 percent of our planet’s surface. So, how is it that we know more about Mars than the marine environments of Earth? As impenetrable as the deep oceans are to humans, we imperviously live in a black box of international shipping, reducing the ocean to a surface rather than an environmental…

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Desert FeelZ

2023

Risograph printed book, 96 pages.
Published by the Desert Humanities Initiative, Institute for Humanities Research, Arizona State University

Editors: Ron Broglio and Marina Zurkow
Drawings: Marina Zurkow
Contributors: Riley Andrade, Matt Bell, Ron Broglio, Matthew Chew, Jeffrey Cohen, Kelli Larson, Sharon Suzuki-Martinez, Cora McHugh, Kevin McHugh, A.J. Nocek, Jane Rodgers, Rashad Shabazz, Matthew Toro, Julian Yates, Marina Zurkow

Commissioned by the Desert Humanities Initiative, Arizona State University

Desert Humanities (link)

This contemplative field guide is “designed to help orient you to the desert, like yoga poses for being with the land.”

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Signs, Wonders, Blunders (Dear Climate)

2019

Locust and red oak wood, vinyl plaques, lettering

Dear Climate Collective, in collaboration with Jennie Carlisle, Curator and Director of the Smith Gallery, Appalachian State
Fabrication: Roger Atkins of Cove Creek Woodworks
Fresh cut locust and red oak wood donated by Ian Snider of Mountain Works Sustainable Development
Documentation: Cheryl Zibisky

Commissioned by Climate Stories Collaborative at Appalachian State

This work is part of the project:

“What do I need to know for the planet to thrive?” This question animates “Signs, Wonders, Blunders,” an installation of 13 signposts, each with three multi-directional signs, located at interesting and suggestive locations on campus. The signposts use book titles and common phrases to create a set of playful proposals for new ways of understanding…

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#MSU: A Manifesto For A Multispecies Union

2022

Unpublished article

At this moment of cascading and interconnected crises, a radically different politics is required. our essay is a provocation – part thought experiment, part call to action – that asks: what would it look like to organize a multi-species union? 

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Animal Testimony: Cetaceans Between the Interspecies and the Inhuman

2022

Essay with illustrations and artwork

https://www.bloomsbury.com/us/lyotard-and-critical-practice-9781350192027/

Co-authored by Margret Grebowicz and Marina Zurkow for the book Lyotard and Critical PracticeKiff Bamford and Margret Grebowicz, editors. Bloomsbury, 2022

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