RE:SOUND 2019

This is the metamorphosis of Earth being: in the desert, open-pit mines are encircled by monolithic tailings structures; boreholes and evaporation ponds spread across the salt flats, and pipelines and power lines run alongside roads punctuated by truck transports, garbage, and blowing dust. Copper, lithium, rare earths; mining the ingredients which conduct and power the wireless world. Ancient geoglyphic inscriptions on the desert are dwarfed by deep industrial scars visible from satellites. But environments are also media, and bodies are recording devices. For days under the sun at high altitudes in northern Chile, we sought elemental media amidst the industrial continuum. A performance devised of infrastructural sounds, atmospheric signals and live electronics with accompanying visual montage.