Posted on Sat, April 6, 2024
Research group Shock Forest Group investigates electromagnetic radiation and radio in all forms and does so in Eindhoven, the birthplace of the medium. Katya Abazajian, Sheryn Akiki, Axel Coumans, Susanna Gonzo, Nicolás Jaar, Daria Kiseleva and Jelger Kroese introduce themselves and talk about their research methods at
Posted on Fri, April 7, 2023
Open from 25.03–28.05.2023, Compulsive Desires — The Extraction of Lithium and Rebellious Mountains addresses the entanglement between extractivism and exhaustion, productivity and burn-out, across scales. Curated by Marina Otero Verzier, the exhibition takes as its starting point the ongoing lithium extraction plans in the North of Portugal and the struggles sustained by local communities for their lives and rights. Battles that emphasize how, in what has been described as "green colonialism", the development of the "renewable energy futures", too often involves the dispossession of communities and degradation of ecosystems.