talking to you, dead water!

talking to you, dead water! (ES)
sound performance
_{process w/ entre moléculas}
_{in the context of nGbK’s The Driving Factor: Am Ende Landschaft}

^{Ich stecke meine Hand in den Sand und spüre kein Leben.
Wasser bist du krank?}

the planned end of coal mining brings with it not only socio-structural change but also the reshaping of the landscapes that have been formed by open cut mining. in a tour to Lausitz, Am Ende Landschaft traces ongoing devastation caused when entire villages are engulfed by mines, confronts state-led attempts at re-naturalisation and reflects embodied experiences with extraction and its consequences

^{den Extraktivismus haben wir nun erfolgreich exportiert
in das kolumbianische Kohleabbaugebiet El Cerrejon}

talking to you, dead water! is an on-site live listening session that dialogues with the molecular processes of the renatured coal mining landscape of Lake Grosssräschen. buoys, underwater speakers, hydrophones, sound and performative texts address the dead water, the aesthetic rhetoric of rescue and the volatile mercury bodies of the coal industry

^{molecules calculated on a screen

projected into clouds

The consequences

the wrecks

The rest

The waste

But You are the only water we have access to}

^{Zwischen den Molekülen

ein Tanz

Wie sprechen
Mit Dir,
Totes Wasser?}

^{photos by knowbotiq}