Mojave-Rosamond Mining District, California
February 2025
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Davey Whitcraft is a Berlin-based artist working with video, installation, and environmental research. His practice focuses on material memory, infrastructural latency, and the temporal pressures embedded in landscapes shaped by extraction. He works with moving image, sound, and sculpture to trace how systems leave behind spatial and sensory residues, often long after their original function has faded.
Whitcraft draws on fieldwork and situated research, working with drones, field recording tools, and video to register temporal pressures and the sensory residues of extractive environments. His projects engage with mineral time, ecological compression, and failures in synchronization between matter and built systems.
His work has been exhibited internationally at the Architecture + Design Museum (Los Angeles), the Museum of Architecture and Design Ljubljana, the Godwin-Ternbach Museum (New York), and in programs at the Rietveld Academie (Amsterdam), Yami-ichi (Brussels), EvoMUSART (Budapest), Themes+Projects (San Francisco), Subliminal Projects (Los Angeles), One-Off Moving Image Festival (Copenhagen), The Wrong Biennale (Chicago), and the Leap Second Festival (Norway).
He holds a PhD in Philosophy, Art, and Critical Thought from the European Graduate School and an MFA in Media Art from UCLA.
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