{"id":1049,"date":"2021-01-11T14:09:44","date_gmt":"2021-01-11T14:09:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.sju.edu\/gallery\/?p=1049"},"modified":"2021-03-04T19:02:52","modified_gmt":"2021-03-04T19:02:52","slug":"our-neighborhood-robin-michals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.sju.edu\/gallery\/2021\/01\/11\/our-neighborhood-robin-michals\/","title":{"rendered":"Our Neighborhood Robin Michals"},"content":{"rendered":"

Our Neighborhood
\n<\/em>Robin Michals<\/h4>\n

January 25 – February 19, 2021<\/h4>\n
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Marcus Hook, Pennsylvania<\/p><\/div>\n

Our zoom webinar took place on Wednesday, February 10.
\nYou may view the recording here<\/a>.<\/h4>\n

Our Neighborhood: The Petrochemical Industry in America’s Backyards<\/em>.\u00a0 A discussion with artist and activist, Robin Michals and Edward Weiner of Philadelphia Department of Health’s Air Management Services.<\/h4>\n

Sponsored by the Art & Art History Department and the Institute for Environmental Stewardship at
\nSaint Joseph’s University<\/p>\n

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The series Our Neighborhood juxtaposes sites of residential life in cities and towns across the
\nUS from Texas to Pennsylvania, with the infrastructure of the petrochemical industry. If your
\nhouse is near an oil or gas well, a power plant or a refinery, you hear it, you smell it, you know it
\nis dangerous. It is however familiar. You are used to it. You accept it because either you have no
\nchoice or it is your best choice. Either your grandparents built the house when they immigrated
\nfrom Poland or Mexico or this neighborhood is actually better than some others you can afford.
\nThe sign \u201cPoison Gas\u201d somehow does not mean what it says and you put it out of your mind.
\nYou are resigned to the dangers that threaten your future in exchange for a feeling of normalcy,
\nfor convenience, for having a roof over your head right now.<\/p>\n

We Americans all live in this house. This is our neighborhood, our home. Due to innovations in
\nhydraulic fracturing, the US is now the largest global producer of oil and gas, surpassing both
\nSaudi Arabia and Russia, at over 13 million barrels per day. The oil and gas business represents
\nabout 8% of US GDP with over 10 million employees. At the same time, the burning of fossil fuel
\nis threatening to destroy life as we know it. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
\nissued a report in 2018 stating that the global temperature will rise 2.7 degrees Fahrenheit over
\npre-industrial levels by 2040, causing calamitous worldwide damage. The need to reduce CO2
\nemissions is on a direct collision course with the expanding US oil and gas industry and its
\nstake in the US economy. While every single one of us emits around 15 metric tons of CO2
\nannually and uses alkanes, alkenes, naphthenes, benzene, butadiene, polypropylene,
\npolystyrene daily, the enormous infrastructure needed to extract, transport, and process these
\npetrochemicals is often easily overlooked. Each image in Our Neighborhood creates a visual
\nmetaphor of what we all are living with, what we take for granted, and to what we have become
\ndesensitized. Looking at the world we have created, without blinking, challenges resignation to
\nthe status quo and climate change. It is a step towards action.<\/p>\n

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Goldsboro, Pennsylvania<\/p><\/div>\n

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Shippingport, Pennsylvania<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Our Neighborhood Robin Michals January 25 – February 19, 2021 Our zoom webinar took place on Wednesday, February 10. You may view the recording here. Our Neighborhood: The Petrochemical Industry in America’s Backyards.\u00a0 A discussion with artist and activist, Robin Michals and Edward Weiner of Philadelphia Department of Health’s Air Management Services. Sponsored by the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":344,"featured_media":1052,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[60,4,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1049","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-2020-2021-exhibitions","category-archived_exhibitions","category-exhibitions"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.sju.edu\/gallery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1049","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.sju.edu\/gallery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.sju.edu\/gallery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.sju.edu\/gallery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/344"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.sju.edu\/gallery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1049"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/sites.sju.edu\/gallery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1049\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1104,"href":"https:\/\/sites.sju.edu\/gallery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1049\/revisions\/1104"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.sju.edu\/gallery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1052"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.sju.edu\/gallery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1049"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.sju.edu\/gallery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1049"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.sju.edu\/gallery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1049"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}