Katrin Hornek’s work engages with the paradoxes and convergences of living in the age of the Anthropocene - an epoch in which capitalist, colonialist and extractivist activities have had an impact so great that terrestrial ecosystems have been profoundly modified. From collections of body stones to the solidification process of CO2, to the use of Earth’s geological stratas as musical scores, Hornek’s works examine the relationship between human beings and their mineral environment. “Her artistic practice asserts an understanding of the entwinement of nature and culture, implicitly arguing for more complex formulations that reflect the ways in which our bodies, cultures, materials, and thoughts are all composed of other presences that make up our world” writes philosopher Heather Davis. As an artist-researcher, Katrin Hornek also takes part in “the Anthropocene Surge”, a project led by the University of Vienna and the University of Applied Arts Vienna that maps the material influence of human activity on the city’s underground. Her artworks are poetic reflections on natural resources that foster more desirable futures.

Katrin Hornek A Landmass To Come ENGLISH

Sonic incantation for the 'Thulhu Thu Thu before the sun harms you' sculptural installation by Knowbotiq, shown in Timespan Arts Center, Helmsdale/Scotland, HeK Basel, Fotomuseum Winterthur.

'Thulhu thu thu, before the sun harms you considers the necropolitical landscape of the Flow Country, an ostensibly natural territory composed from a subterranean molecular system which circulates decay and energy across geological epochs. The bog lands are unearthly territories to imagine and speculate on future extinction and the limits of the planet. Here the ghosts of the white Anthropocene – land grabs, dispossession, forced migration, corporate extraction, environmental poisoning – are preserved in deep time and rendered inhuman materialities of the earth.

The bogs register and cannibalise the sedate and rapid transformations of local and planetary systems – clearances, alien terraformings and racialised violence.  Where human memory fails in anaerobic layers one can find precisely dated nano-traces of nuclear particles, volcanic ash and acid rain. Layers of monstrous molecular intimacies and scars of peat cuttings are crisscrossed by voidings and valorizations – while the metabolic processes of the sphagnum mosses continually process parallel forms of induced living, non_living to recite matter and disturb time.' Knowbotiq

more info and incantations on: http://knowbotiq.net/thulhu/

Aerial Fire -  incantation for 'Thulhu Thu Thu before the sun harms you'

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Aerial Fire - incantation for 'Thulhu Thu Thu before the sun harms you'

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