Focuses on contemporary art and media to examine the role of visuals in environmental violence and war in Northern Kurdistan. Extractivism--exploiting the earth for resources--has long driven racial capitalism and colonialism. And yet, how does extractivism operate in a world where ecological and humanitarian sensibilities are unprecedentedly widespread? Eray ylı argues it does so by mobilizing these sensibilities in new ways. Extractivism is no longer only about moving the earth--displacing peoples, fossils, minerals, and waters--but also leaving those who witness this violent displacement sentimentally moved. Earthmoving conceptualizes this duality. Derived from ylı's years-long work in Northern Kurdistan, home to the world's largest stateless nation--rendered stateless by colonial policies since the nineteenth century--Earthmoving focuses on the 2010s, a decade that began with peace talks between Turkey and the Kurdish liberation movement but ended with war. The decade
