A Seat for the Sea

Beyond the Dirt, in 5 Selfies
Beyond the dirt, in 5 selfies is a performance installation through which we want to address the exploitation of the sea in this ‘Ocean Decade’. In a guided tour along 4 set-ups in a large space, we explore how to grasp this complex subject and translate it into imagination. But how do you arouse i…

Undo Enclosures
How can a license area for deepsea mining in the Clarion Clipperton Zone, CCZ, granted in 1974 to a US company, land decades later in the hands of Belgian dredging company DEME, which shares it with the Cook Islands? It is an intricacy of the governance of the common heritage of mankind that raises…

Recolonization with artificial nodules. Real or fake?
deep-sea mining is a type of extractivism that scrapes up polymetallic nodules but at the same time removes all life that has attached itself to these nodules. This new industry thus also causes a permanent loss of habitat for living things at that depth. The deep sea, the abyssal zone - between …

Reconstitution #1
During wars and colonial occupations, cultural goods were looted on a large scale. Plundering and illegal excavations also fall under the same heading. In recent years, the restitution of these objects that once found their way from colonised or annexed territories to Western private individuals a…