Kerogen Voices

A recuperating woman takes the fresh air in woodland, accompanied by her nurse, 1909, Photo: Het Leven, Spaarnestad Netherlands. (superimposed gas flare image from “Still Climate of Concern”: Shell, 1991.) - Artwork by Jimmy Grima

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Kerogen Voices investigates and explores manufactured earthquakes caused by fossil-fuel extraction. In this collaborative work, the voices of science, myth, workers, engineers, Earth, and folkloric entities coexist and are in dialogue. These voices are suspended in an immersive soundscape of elementary flux.

Dense strata of text, vocals, and enveloping sound invite the audience to listen to the movement and signals of our planet and to imagine its subterraneous fossil guts as a giant sentient body – responding in a multitude of ways to the interference of humankind.

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