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Dark Ecology comes to the Sonic Acts Festival in Amsterdam

From 26 February – 1 March 2015, the Sonic Acts Festival will take place in Amsterdam. The research that we have been conducting for Dark Ecology, and the Dark Ecology Journey in October 2014, was crucial to the development of this year’s Sonic Acts festival theme The Geologic Imagination.

Dark Ecology, First Journey Report

We hope that this encounter, examination, or exploration will take many forms. In this sense Dark Ecology and the first journey are an experiment. It’s about imagination as well, imagining a past, a future, a politics, our connections. It’s also about trying to imagine something larger than us humans.

Dark Ecology Reading List part II

Pointers to books and articles that were an inspiration for the Dark Ecology project, this time focusing specifically on the idea of the agency of the nonhuman and 'making things speak'.

Marie Nerland

Marie Nerland (NO) is an artist and curator based in Bergen. In 2008 Nerland founded Volt, a long-term curatorial initiative that commissions and presents new projects by contemporary artists.

Dark Ecology Programme Update - Commissioned works

The third edition of the art, research and commissioning project Dark Ecology will take place between 8 and 12 June 2016 in the border zone between Norway and Russia.

Prospecting: A Geological Survey of Greys

Listen to Peter Meanwell's podcast about the commissioned work 'Prospecting Greys' by Cecilia Jonsson

Living Earth

The new publication 'Living Earth - Field Notes from the Dark Ecology project' is available now! (estimated shipping date: June 1st)

Listen to Justin Bennett's soundwalk

You can now listen to Justin Bennett's soundwalk Vilgiskoddeoayvinyarvi: Wolf Lake on the Mountains

Justin Bennett – Vilgiskoddeoayvir: Wolf Lake on the Mountains

At 12 kilometres deep, the Kola Superdeep Borehole is one of the deepest man-made holes on Earth. The Borehole was a Soviet geology research project that started during the Cold War. Justin Bennett created a soundwalk for this abandoned site.

Dark Ecology at Sonic Acts Festival 2017

Artists and speakers include Dark Ecology participants BJ Nilsen, Espen Sommer Eide, HC Gilje, Jana Winderen, Justin Bennett, Karl Lemieux, Lukas Marxt, Signe Lidén and Susan Schuppli.