(2022)

In April of 22’, sand from the Sahara blew across Europe. This presence of foreign sand on cars, roofs and garden chairs was evidence that the climate connects us all. Climate as a hyper-object is massively distributed in time and space to the extent that its totality cannot be realised in any particular local manifestation. The result is an inability to comprehend our individual impact and entanglement with the climate on our planet.

Using the Sahara sand as a means of simulating a ‘miniature’ hyper -object, throughout the performance the text:“I can’t see it. I can’t touch it. But I know it exists, and I know I’m part of it.” Begins to form, and slowly the orange powder began to infiltrate floors and walls, shoes and hands. Although cleaners continuously try to put the sand back where it came from, This work was a collaboration with I/M/D first years and elite professionals of the Netherlands, such as the former CEO of Shell.