Esotronic Altar To Bind Capatriarcolonialism
Crafted from scavenged devices and repurposed debris, these electronic talismans act as antidotes to Business as Usual. Building counter-narratives to industrial revolutions born of capitalist, patriarchal, and colonial systems, this altar pays homage and seeks to continue the work of healers, scientists, and technologists (AKA witches) violently repressed by these very systems as they festered into being some few hundred years ago. Against the mandate of hard work and efficiency—paid for in humanitarian and ecological catastrophe—these charms choose refusal. Undead, uneasy, restless: animated specimens of a world both living and dying. A leaf that refuses to rot. Polluted water that resists stagnation. The Earth is Revolting, and it demands peace.
The altar assembles a kitsch kitchen of bioelectronics, agitating knowledge hierarchies and unsettling the imaginaries of technological «progress.» These pieces gesture toward alternate electro-futures, rooted not in extraction and exploitation, but in compassion, tenderness, and care. Hard work is not The Grind — it is to stop, to give a FUCK and to radically transform how we live with each other and with the world; can we imagine how to do so?
Elements of the installation have been developed alongside GaudiLabs and Urs Gaudenz; Omega Attraktor aka Oliver Jäggi as part of the Krystal Transistor Piknik Kvlt; and with creative circuits from the community of the Swiss Mechatronic Art Society (SGMK).
