{"id":9434,"date":"2012-04-19T12:50:19","date_gmt":"2012-04-19T16:50:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artoronto.ca\/?p=9434"},"modified":"2012-06-01T08:35:31","modified_gmt":"2012-06-01T12:35:31","slug":"fordlandia-by-dan-dubowitz","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/artoronto.ca\/?p=9434","title":{"rendered":"Fordlandia by Dan Dubowitz"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.artoronto.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/image013-Bauxi.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-9432\" title=\"CW_31.tif\" src=\"http:\/\/www.artoronto.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/image013-Bauxi.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"271\" height=\"212\" \/><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>May\u00a01 \u2013 31, 2012<\/strong><br \/>\nOpening: Saturday, May 5, 2\u20134 p.m.<br \/>\n<strong>BAU-XI PHOTO<\/strong><br \/>\n340 Dundas St. West<br \/>\nToronto, Ontario, M5T 1G5<br \/>\nT: 416.977.0600<br \/>\nE: <a href=\"mailto:toronto@bau-xi.com\">toronto@bau-xi.com<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.bau-xiphoto.com\/\">www.bau-xiphoto.com<\/a><br \/>\nHours: Mon-Sat 10\u20135:30, Sun 11\u20135:30<\/p>\n<p><strong>Fordlandia: The Lost City of Henry Ford<\/strong><br \/>\nPart of CONTACT, 2012<\/p>\n<p>Fordlandia is the first in the series \u2018Megalomania\u2019. This series of photographs, completed in October 2011, reveals what has become of Fordlandia, the American town built in the Brazilian rainforest by infamous tycoon Henr y Ford. Today, the town is a postindustrial wasteland, complete with sidewalks and fire hydrants, prefabricated industrial sheds from Michigan and American clapper board houses. More curious still is that, in spite of no new economy or employer in the area, Fordlandia is coming back to life, and in recent years the population has risen from a few hundred to two thousand. Alongside the graveyards of metal machine sheds and a hospital being ingested by the rainforest, there are houses being restored, a well tended graveyard, and the Ford-built schoolhouse is full.The giant water tower, still one the largest structures in the Amazon, is gleaming like an alien rocket.<br \/>\nThe world followed Fordism in industry with great interest in the twentieth century. As Fordlandia is rediscovered, it provides the opportunity to reflect on Fordism in the jungle, and discover the project that ushered in the new epoch of American imperialism and the forefathers of today\u2019s multinationals committing ecocide with impunity. Hubris fuelled Ford\u2019s project, and after the company left, hubris remains.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Dan Dubowitz<\/strong> has exhibited internationally and has been the subject of numerous publications, including three books, titled \u201cWastelands,\u201d \u201cFascismo Abbandonato,\u201d and \u201cAfter the Occupation\u201d.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><strong>May 1 \u2013 31, 2012<\/strong><br \/>\nOpening: Saturday, May 5, 2\u20134 p.m.<\/p>\n<p><strong>BAU-XI PHOTO<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Hubris fuelled Ford\u2019s project, and after the company left, hubris remains.<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-p\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/artoronto.ca\/?p=9434\">Read more &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9433,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9434","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-listings_archive"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/artoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9434","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/artoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/artoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9434"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/artoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9434\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11544,"href":"https:\/\/artoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9434\/revisions\/11544"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/9433"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/artoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9434"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9434"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9434"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}