Becoming Palm

Becoming Palm

Blending text with photographs and archival materials, Gill reflects on the changed landscape of Malaysia, from rubber tree plantations during the British colonial period to the oil palm crops of today.

CATEGORY
Publications
YEAR PUBLISHED
2017
AVAILABILITY
Print
REGIONS
Southeast Asia, South America

Becoming Palm is the outcome of a conversation between two friends, artist Simryn Gill and anthropologist Michael Taussig responding to oil palm plantations and “the enormous transformations, human, and ecological, that this crop engenders” (Michael Taussig) in two remote geographical locations, Southeast Asia and South America. Blending text with photographs and archival materials, Gill reflects on the changed landscape of Malaysia, from rubber tree plantations during the British colonial period to the oil palm crops of today. Taussig provides an account of his extensive fieldwork in Colombia and the violent impact of the oil palm industry on local communities.

Becoming Palm was launched on Saturday, 29 April 2017 in conjunction with the Singapore Art Book Fair 2017.

Becoming Palm
Published by Sternberg Press
© 2017
ISBN: 978-3-95679-260-1 · 978-981-11-3046-5