Black Diamond Dust expands on the 2014 multi-site contemporary art exhibition that took place in Nanaimo, British Columbia, a small city on the eastern edge of Vancouver Island. The title refers to coal mining, an industry which, while fueling the modern world, has formed and fragmented communities through economic development, racial segregation and labor inequity. This handsomely designed hardcover book, edited by curator Jesse Birch with Scottish artist Will Holder, gathers art projects and writings by an international gathering of filmmakers, artists, photographers, writers and curators, addressing forgotten or under-acknowledged histories surrounding the practices of international coal mining. Contemporary artworks,…