In fact, it could have been even more haunting, had I pressed the right button inside the Blåfjell Mine :))

Thanks! No worries, I would've been v surprised. But also, you're already there in spirit, in the presence of certain field recordings 🪨🪨🪨

and btw, thanks again, @finnarne.me, for letting me borrow the mic!

Glad to have been a small part of this film by mazefilm. Come see it in Leipzig if you're in the area! Very much looking forward to the exhibition opening next Friday (24th)

gfzk.de/en/calendard...

With the controversies around new mining plans, it was also a chance to reflect on the possible futures of Sokndal — from labour to resistance, displaced communities, environmental violence and post-extractivism.

Anorthosite is abundant there, the same rock type that composes the bright side of the moon. In the mining of titanium, it is a waste product. In these moon-like landscapes, industrial ruins co-exist with dreams of optimization. And poetically, there are no tides on the coast.

Glad to have been a small part of this film by mazefilm. Come see it in Leipzig if you're in the area! Very much looking forward to the exhibition opening next Friday (24th)

gfzk.de/en/calendard...

With the controversies around new mining plans, it was also a chance to reflect on the possible futures of Sokndal -- from labour to resistance, displaced communities, environmental violence and post-extractivism.

With the controversies around new mining plans, it was also a chance to reflect on the possible futures of Sokndal -- from labour to resistance, displaced communities, environmental violence and post-extractivism.

Anorthosite is abundant there, the same material that composes the bright side of the moon. In the mining of titanium, it is a waste product. In these moon-like landscapes, industrial ruins co-exist with dreams of optimization. And poetically, there are no tides on its coasts.

and sometimes it's almost reaching self-awareness

"I wonder [how] we might rethink our relationship with the shore, one that has been marked by trauma, dependence, and ambivalence? What does it mean to return to the shore as an epistemic space—a site for liberatory political imagination?"

www.e-flux.com/architecture...

More can be found here:

In December 1999, a biodiversity tragedy: the sinking of the Erika oil tanker creates a huge oil spills, killing around 150k to 300k birds. The following map lists the storage location in Brittany from various oil spills