composting slow violence (ES)
conversations, collaborative writing, remote listening session and multimedia installation
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when disruptive contaminating factors in the molecular composting process such as chemicals, plastic composites, mineral salts, moulds, etc. take over the organic processes supposed to form humus - the decomposition and transformation processes slip out of balance

                           is compost an utopia of progress by the uncontaminated?

we trace stories of misguided decay, of spilling over of heat, of absent ghosts in the water, of pollutants waiting for repair. we intervene locally and remotely with carrier bags of sand and glass in the composting process that forms the translocal stories of neocolonial extractivism, dark ecologies and molecular slow violence. different contributions on the fiction of mercurybodies, sand, alchemistic corals and murky glass beads - forming techno-political conglomerates through language, sound, touch, heat, patience, silence and slow transformation.

quartz sand, play sand, mining sand ... sand is found in the cement of the dwellings, and in the respiratory tracts of the inhabitants. the rain washes it back into the river. sands are everywhere, and in zones of enormous heat - sand can melt into glass. environmental toxins diffuse into the sand, petrifying it into an island - no one dares move or touch it.
but how do you turn contamination into compost?