knowbotiq

Amazonian Flesh

How to hang in trees during strike?

knowbotiq in collaboration with Pablo Alarcon and Ira Wilhelm (cocoons of idleness), Nina Bandi (research, scripts), Nicolas Buzzi (sound synthesis), Anna Bromley, Joerg Franzbecker, Leila Peacock, Sally Schoenfeldt, Ian Wooldrige (voices: bots), Fabian Saavedra-Laa/Anneke Dinkhase (Interkultur Ruhr)

The Psychotropic Refinery, 2022 ©knowbotiq

Exhibition

GOLD Mining the Unconscious

GOLD—Mining the Unconscious 11.2.2022 till 10.4.2022 Barbara Diethelm, Heinrich Eichmann, knowbotiq Helmhaus Zürich Soft vernissage: Friday 11th February, 11h to 18h dialog between knowbotiq and curator Daniel Morgenthaler: 17h

Around 50% of the gold mined worldwide is processed in discrete refineries in Switzerland. The work complex "The Psychotropic Refinary", manifests itself in this new exhibition as an immersive video projection and a psychoactive spatial setting with aetheric essences and mud, residue from a Swiss Gold refinery. knowbotiq fabulate about the incorporation of gold into all of our raw metabolism. The video Swiss Psychotropic Gold uses digital found footage in a critical fabulation to bring together the worlds in which precariously mined gold is secretly transformed into derivative stock market products, components of high-tech technologies, or libidinous wellness products. The work delves into gold and mercury amalgams—mercury is used to wash gold out of the earth—and emerges into a fictional psychotropic refinery for healing the collective subconscious of gold.

Swiss Psychotropic Gold, the molecular refinery, 2021 ©knowbotiq — Swiss Psychotropic Gold, The Molecular Refinery, 2021 ©knowbotiq

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Mercurybody : Contamination of Female Body and sexual Reproduction Elements: 3D models of a female breast, of sewage treatment plants, of a temporary metal bridge, of human bronchial tubes, of gold jewelry, of the fish Bocachico in the Atrato River, Gold Mercury Amalgams, Dental Amalgams

a critical cartography on remote sensing

Mercurybodies: Remote Sensations

knowbotiq with Pablo Torres and Sally Schonfeldt. What would it mean to look at satellite images of a section of the Atrato River with the sensibilities and afflictions of the manifolded mercurybodies to reveal what they cannot depict? Would it be possible to undertake a kind of contamination of the cartography through aesthetic ornamentation, a reverse forensic, as it were? Is it possible to deal with such artistic strategies with such planetary non-computabilities? What does it mean to offer the technologically unconscious a space within an work such as this one?

knowbotiq reflect in this new work on remote sensing technologies, such as high-resolution satellite images and contamination detectors, which allow "discrete" interventions, for example at the mercury contaminated Rio Atrato, without physically going to the site in question. But what can such images, which usually form the basis for economic and political decisions, actually show us?

Remote Sensations 2021 ©knowbotiq — Mercurybody : Necropolitics and automated extraction Elements: Illustrations of various models of mercury circuits, 3D model of a portable assembly line, of various “Exploration Drills”, Google map view of Glencore Headquarters Baar/Switzerland, 3D model of a biometric scanner system for finger and palm prints, Diagram of an underground exploration for gold deposits in the Amazon region voice: we judging and rating bodies We Automatic Extractors declaring local activists as terrorists: They will no longer have the right to address the law. But those „beggars in a golden pew“ will not be mute! Stay alert, Necropolitical Monsters!

Mercurybody: Bacteriology, Biomagnification, Organic Detecting, Phytoremediation Elements: Bacteria that process methylmercury, * C. Elegance, model worm testing mercury poisoning, Foam, Poporo Quimbaya, Medical pipette

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