This project explores the histories and legacies of British
investment in Chilean nitrate mines from the late nineteenth to
early twentieth century and involvement in its global trafficking.
Through an examination of sites, artefacts and images, the project
will trace nitrate's route from natural mineral state processed in
the oficinas (works) of the Atacama desert, to transported
commodity and stock market value to become, ultimately, part of the
material and symbolic heritage of London mansions and estates in
the capital's surrounding countryside. It undertakes new audio and
visual documentation of geographically disparate but historically
connected landscapes, of remote nitrate fields and metropolitan
financial districts, accompanied by an analysis of their material
culture and interpretation of both images and texts archived in
national, regional and local institutions.
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