“Here and there, now and then” is an installation work that considers the parallel developments of two largescale and long term commercial mining projects, that of the Congo and that of the deep sea. Through archival investigation and material exploration, the work reveals connection points between the seemingly disparate extractive projects. “Here and there, now and then”
is at once research fragments, an expanded essay, and a reflection on the extractive nature of artmaking and knowledge production.
Throughout the space are the scents of freshly turned soil and metal, satellite and scientific data, and a series of dispersed text interventions including iPhones with QR codes pointing to timelines on the histories of commercial mining in the DRC, mining in the deep sea, and a text on the complicity of looking.
