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We are all Astronauts (2015) - David Rickard

​In search for the 'four corners of the earth'  four points were located, as close to the equator as possible, with coordinates of equal latitude and separated by exactly 90° in longitude.

Located in Mozambique, Central Brazil, Western Australia and French Polynesia, each site was visited by a local collaborator following precise GPS co-ordinates. At each location a small right-angled marker made of local wood was installed along an east-west axis to form each corner of a large collaborative installation. 

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The founding of Jamestown had much to do with fool’s gold, the common term for the glittering, golden, sulfide of iron mineral, pyrite. In fact, fool’s gold is a common thread linking the activities of all the early European explorers to North America.

David Rickard argues that the foundation of the United States had less to do with religious refugees and more to do with pyrite.

Image: “Pyrite” by pnjunction2007 from SENDAY/MIYAGI/JAPAN, Japan. CC BY 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons

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David Rickard

A Disagreement on the Physical Constraints of Reality, 2011