EXTRACTION: Art on the Edge of the Abyss—Catalog and Exhibition Guide
Codex 2020

Extraction: Art on the Edge of the Abyss is a multimedia, multi-venue, cross-border art intervention that will investigate extractive industry in all of its forms (from mining and drilling, to the reckless exploitation of water, soil, trees, marine life, and other natural resources). The project seeks to expose and interrogate extractive’s negative social and environmental consequences, from the damage done to people, especially indigenous and disenfranchised communities, to ravaged landscapes and poisoned water, to climate change and its many troubling implications.

Nothing like the Extraction Project has been attempted before: All art forms, all happening at roughly the same time, with hundreds of artists spread across at least four continents (North and South America, Europe and Australia). And all addressing a single theme—the suicidal consumption of the plant’s natural resources, which is the most pressing environmental issue of our time, encompassing all others, including climate change.

Publishing Editor | Peter Rutledge Koch
Editing, Layout Design, and Production | Samuel Pelts with the assistance of

Dina Pollack and Jonathan Gerken
Cover Image | Léonie Pondevie, Carrière de clisson, 2019, digital photograph.

Bitmap Illustrations | Eric Zhang.

ISBN: 978-0-9962184-7-4
10.75 × 8.5 inches | 648 pages

Extraction: Art on the Edge of the Abyss is a special project of the CODEX Foundation a 501(c) (3) nonprofit.