Society & Culture
Humans have been extracting copper from rocks since at least 5000 BCE. It's in your computer, your home and most notably, inside a lot of uteruses. Artist Marisa Morán Jahn's interest in copper began when she discovered that she had agreed to have a piece of the metal inserted in her body. That launched her into a wormhole of copper-related research, culminating in her latest interdisciplinary project, Snatchural History of Copper, which she is presenting at the upcoming Creative Time Summit here in New York. MacKenzie talks to Marisa about the nature of extraction, the #ElectroWinning properties of copper and we take you on a deep dive to find the origin of Venus of Aphrodite.