We are happy to host a talk by scholar and researcher Stephanie O’Rourke, as a closing event of our exhibition Extractive Imagination(s) Ch. 2: The Perfect Loaf, together with artists Clémentine Vaultier, Ciel Grommen, and Maximiliaan Royakkers.
Stephanie O’Rourke is a Scotland-based visual culture schola particularly interested in the relation to resource extraction, scientific knowledge, and media technologies in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Her new book Picturing Landscape in an Age of Extraction (September 2025, University of Chicago Press) examines how artistic production responded to and helped to shape the rise of extractive capitalism at the turn of the nineteenth century. She regularly partners with artists and climate scientists to explore alternative strategies for visualising the legacies of extraction in the present day.
She is a Senior Lecturer in art history at the University of St Andrews in Scotland. She has previously served as a Research Fellow at The Museum of Modern Art, a Pierre and Tana Matisse Fellow at Columbia University, and a Visiting Scholar at the Yale Center for British Art. She holds a BA from Harvard University (2008) and a PhD from Columbia University (2016). Her prize-winning first book (Art, Science and the Body in Early Romanticism, 2021, Cambridge University Press) examines the changing evidentiary authority of the human body at the dawn of the nineteenth century.
FRI.SEP.26
19:00 Doors open
19:30 Talk starts duration 60 min
The visit of Stephanie O’Rourke is made possible by the International Visitors Programme of the Nieuwe Instituut with support from the Netherlands Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
