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The video installation draws upon the scale of these operations by connecting territorial struggles concerning water, biodiversity, and identity loss with space observation. In Kiruna, where unjust state policies reiterate colonial patterns, the iron mining industry has historically occupied the traditional lands of the Sámi and affected reindeer herding patterns. In the Atacama, the natural environment is ‘sacrificed’ in the name of the progress and historically copper and more recently lithium extraction activities – both key to the energy transition and the active materials in rechargeable batteries – are drying up subterranean aquifers and preventing access to fresh water for the Likanantay communities – and they see none of the benefits of the extraction.
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Editor
Lara Garcia Reyne
Sound Design & Music
Udit Duseja
Colourist
Paul Willis
Featuring
Karen Luza, Maj-Doris Rimpi, Carola Aguilar Cruz, Veronica Moreno, Åsa Andersson, Janne Sirniö
Writing
In collboration with Ellen Lapper
Translations to German
Katherine Leward
On the occasion of
Into the Deep: Mines of the Future
Zeppelin Museum Friedrichshafen, Germany
26.05.2023 – 05.11.2023
Curated by
Claudia Emmertand Ina Neddermeyer
Production supported by
Zero programme of the Kulturstiftung des Bundes (German Federal Cultral Foundation)
Beauftragte der Bundesregierung für Kultur und Medien (Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media)
Fieldwork supported by
AHRC project Frozen Future (Traces of Nitrate) Royal College of Arts (RCA) / Univerisity of Brighton, UK
FORMAS project Indigenous perspectives on forest fires, drought and climate change: Sápmi, Centre for Multidisciplinary Studies on Racism (CEMFOR), Uppsala University, Sweden
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Download exhibition booklet [German]
Download exhibition text [English]
Download conversartion with Ina Neddermeyer