Deep Time and Crude Resonance

 

 

Deep Time and Crude Resonance is a sound installation and live radio performance that traces geopolitical links between North America and Norway, to reflect on the lived material/temporal politics of oil that simultaneously connects and divides the Global North from the Global South. The work consists of two sound works developed as a sonic palimpsest that layers field recordings of on-site oil pumps in the depths of Texas oil country, with intergenerational reflections. These reflections include the first-person experiences of a laborer-caretaker, and their family lineage impacted by the presence of the Mexican National Oil Company, PEMEX, which has environmentally and socio-economically affected Tabasco´s sea and mainland ecologies, and the questions of a young child as she tries to make sense of oil as a deep time material. The two sound works are played in the gallery through the speakers of two FM radio transmitters. Listeners are encouraged to hold the radios to their ears, together and alone.

A project developed and produced in collaboration with Freya Zinovieff

Presented at the 13th Edition of Momentum Biennale 2025 in Moss, Norway.

Live Radio Performance at the Sound Programming at Moss Church.

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