• Live-listening performance:

• 38 MIN

• Texts by:

• Nina Bandi

• Mixing & editing:

• Anna Frei, fred hystère

Gold, quantum physics and sweeping the batea. Go and see, look for it, search for it, listen carefully to what you can sense, trace; smell it, taste it, touch it; ... in the public space, in the aesthetic undergrounds, in the materialities, in the dust, the smoke, the shining that surrounds us.

• Video:

• 2 MIN 19 SEC

• Directors:

• Paula OG, Beaker Sanchez

Due to the situation to the depressing state of the Atrato River it has become necessary to speak about and defend its rights. This River Atrato, its basin, and its tributaries are not in ideal condition. The communities and the people who live in the river who are part of the river who can be found in the brooks and streams of the rivers that we too will not be in the best of situations.

• Sound piece:

• 17 MIN

• Sound design:

• Ayesha Hameed, William Saunders

Glass, pearl, sugar, iron, bone and gold – materials of the transatlantic slavetrade release traces of their past into the present. Traces of processes of extraction from the soil and from the signifying of life. A factual, corporeal and poetic encounter through stories, museums, archives and the sea itself.

• Video:

• 6 MIN 24 SEC

• Sound:

• Anna Frei/fred hystère

• Voice:

• Julia Haenni

Me as super-commodity / me, libidinous gift, not being separated / me as bodies, female, the thing / me regulator of body temperature / negotiating ownership on women's bodies / creole gold longing for security / circulations anew

• Video;

• Sound:

• knowbotiq, Anna Frei/fred hystère

How can Gold be documented at all and positioned in the round dance of discourse? What eludes our very western material construction of reality? What rests circulating across the techno-spheres?

• Reprinted from:

• Ashkan Sepahvand (ed.), Elements for a World Series – Water: Waste, Toxicity, Corruption, Contamination (Beirut, Lebanon: Sursock Museum 2016)

"Someone needs to explain to me why wanting clean drinking water makes you an activist and why proposing to destroy water with chemical warfare doesn't make a corporation a terrorist."

Winona LaDuke, Anishinaabekwe, founder of the White Earth Land Recovery Project