“Porous Bodies” is part of a long-term research project that considers the geological kinship and the slippery intimacies of capitalism through the entanglements of mining in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and mining in the Deep-Sea. This installation uses rock samples from each site to create a hand assembled, cameraless 16mm film with resulting optical sound.

The installation asks: what does it mean to remove these samples from circulation? The act of crushing them is an act of transformation, releasing them from a world of speculative assessment. How does removing them from systems of valuation, pulverizing them, dispersing them and inviting them to be something else change our relationship to them? Something like a refusal, something like putting them to rest.

Video documentation of the installation can be viewed here.