Composting Slow Violence - when disruptive contaminating factors in the molecular composting process such as chemicals, plastic composites, mineral salts, moulds, etc. take over the organic processes supposed to form humus - the decomposition and transformation processes slip out of balance - Is Compost an utopia of progress by the Uncontaminated?
We collect the stories of misguided decay, of spilling over of heat, of absent ghosts in the water, of pollutants waiting for repair. We intervene locally and remotely with carrier bags of sand and glass in the composting process that forms the translocal stories of neocolonial extractivism, dark ecologies and molecular slow violence. Different contributions on the fiction of Mercurybodies, sand, alchemistic corals and murky glass beads - forming techno-political conglomerates through language, sound, touch, heat, patience, silence and slow transformation.
The text materials of the video were created by Entre Moléculas, a group of artists and anthropologists from Bogotá, Berlin, Lisbon, Quibdó and Ticino - who exchanged ideas about mining, extractivism, remote technologies and dark ecologies.
Parts of these texts, together with research images from illegal gold mining areas in the Rio Atrato in Pacific Colombia and from re-naturalized coal mining areas in Lusatia / Germany were inserted into an AI text-to-image generator (DreamStudio by Stability.ai), which infuses “universal” statistics, imaginations and values (bias) into the documentary images and decomposes them.
