Louis Braddock Clarke & Zuzanna Zgierska – Out of Focus

Sonic Acts Podcast

Out of Focus: Down the Crimson Cliffs, past the Fjord of the Dead, over the Signal Mountain by Louis Braddock Clarke & Zuzanna Zgierska 31 March 2022 – Ot301, Amsterdam, The Netherlands In a talk about their audiovisual project, ‘Out of Focus’, Louis Braddock Clarke and Zuzanna Zgierska track down the widely dispersed fragments of a meteorite that fell thousands of years ago in Imnaminomen, Greenland. Previously hidden under the ice cap, the deposits have become an open invitation for explorative extraction. Their talk stems from field work in the region and brings forth stories that intersect geological events, mineral extraction and postcolonialism. On Thursday 31 March 2022, Sonic Acts continued the event series Night Air with Melting Cores at OT301 in Amsterdam. This gathering got to the heart of matter – a place of reaction and fusion, where insights are generated and imaginations proliferate. Featuring talks, films, performances and DJ sets, Melting Cores explored the politics of climate archiving, elemental collapse, and the (de)centralisation of cultural perspectives. NIGHT AIR Night Air is a series of Sonic Acts events that aim to make pollution visible by bringing forth the various side-effects of modernity: from exploitation of people and resources to perpetual inequalities brought about by the destruction of the environment and common land – in other words, capitalist practices that shape both our environment and human-nonhuman relations. CREDITS Curation & production: Sonic Acts Design: Toni Brell https://tonibrell.de Video: Marie Debarbieux https://mariedebarbieux.wixsite.com Sound mastering: Poul Sven de Haan faboem.nl