Earth Observatory Array Activation Ritual

  • festival
    02.-05.02.2017
  • excursion
    18.02.2017
  • excursion
    24.02.2017
  • closing weekend
    04.-05.03.2017
  • partner program
    20.01.-05.03.2017

Event

Earth Observatory Array Activation Ritual

Performance
Fr, 24.02.2017
18:00 - 18:30
silent green Kulturquartier

[Deutsche Version folgt]

The arrangements and assemblages that compose our images, knowledges, and imaginaries of planet earth are vast and diverse. Local knowledges, and the sites of its production are not just those we imagine as part of the epistemic colonialism of technoscience, but also conjectural, anecdotal, unclear, mystifying, and inexplicable. The Earth Observatory Array, a subaltern meshwork charting the interactions of earth’s elemental forces, provides direct engagement with transitional, ambiguous transitions the planet undergoes—from animated to lifeless, from living to dead.

The workshop which results in the making of an Earth Observatory Array Element (EOAE) at silent green culminates in a collective ritual—a calibration, induction, and activation—which initializes the nuclear containment EOAE on the grounds of the first crematorium in Berlin. This ritual or ceremony, devised in part during the workshop by participants, draws parallels between a contemporary embalming associated with data production and sampling and the storage or backup of both nuclear materials and archived nature.