Esotronic Altar To Bind Capatriarcolonialism
This installation brings together instruments and devices made during collaborative art/science/technology experiments, workshops and performances with Urs Gaudenz at GaudiLabs, Oliver Jäggi AKA Omega Attraktor as part of the Krystal Transistor Piknik Kvlt, and ongoing work with the Swiss Mechatronic Art Society.
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. Against the mandate of hard work and efficiency—paid for in humanitarian and ecological catastrophe and enabled by electronic technologies— these charms choose refusal, refusal to participate in the status quo.
Gathering rocks with electronic properties, harvesting wild electricity and manipulating other super-earthly phenomena, 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
