11/06/2024
We're very happy to have been doing the music composition, sound design and sound mastering for Larisa Crunțeanu () & Sonja Hornung's film "to slip, to slide, to glitch" which is currently running at as part of until the 12th July 2024
"to slip, to slide, to glitch" is an expansive installation with video works, textiles, text, and sculptural elements which explores moments of control, disruption, destruction, and restoration in the production of landscapes through "green capitalism". Disruptions or glitches, such as those found in faulty satellite images of open-cast mines, reflect broader interruptions in the landscape, with deep-seated implications for bodies (human, animal, plant, and water).
The artists research starts with (post-)mining landscapes in East Germany and Romania. They investigate how the desire for an ecological and just transformation collides with profit-driven extraction processes. Who benefits from the desire for change and restoration, and how does this repeatedly negatively impact people and ecosystems?
Large-scale textile cyanotypes and hyper-coloured fake plants transform the gallery into an imitation forest. In a video work, two protagonists move through (post-)industrial coal mining landscapes in Lusatia and the copper mining region in the Apuseni Mountains, searching, marvelling and observing. Transformed into skeletons, the artists refer to the toxicity of the scenarios and processes at play, destabilising their own physicality in relation to "artificial nature".
The exhibition blurs notions of nature and artificiality. Landscapes are always partly produced by humans—either through the imagined full restoration or neglect. The project is dedicated to the productive power that arises when we do not separate "natural" and "artificial" conditions, pointing to the need for practices that embrace the wounds of the world, and take responsibility for caring.
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