This paper details Elia Vargas’ hybrid research art practice that examines alternative histories of crude oil, through an art inspection by the “Art Inspector” social practice of Danielle Siembieda. As a creative framework to understand the entangled nature and culture of the product Crudoleum, invented by American mystic Edgar Cayce, Siembieda evaluates Vargas’ crude oil art practice through an assessment of its environmental impacts. The performative inspection examines assumptions about the materiality of oil in speculative and empirical ways. The purpose of this paper is twofold, to analyze the constitution of Crudoleum, contextualizing it within a history of other petropractices; and to continue Vargas’ ongoing critique of the perspective that fossil fuels are ontologically determinate by humans.

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原始照明：原始油画艺术检查

本文详细介绍了 Elia Vargas 的混合研究艺术实践，该实践通过 Danielle Siembieda 的“艺术检查员”社会实践进行的艺术检查来检验原油的替代历史。作为理解由美国神秘主义者埃德加凯西发明的 Crudoleum 产品的纠缠性质和文化的创造性框架，Siembieda 通过评估其环境影响来评估 Vargas 的原油艺术实践。执行检查以推测和经验的方式检查关于石油重要性的假设。本文的目的是双重的，分析 Crudoleum 的构成，将其置于其他石油实践的历史背景中；并继续巴尔加斯对化石燃料在本体论上由人类决定的观点的持续批判。