‘Surface Depression and the Emergence of New Habitats’ by APART Collective at Easttopics Gallery

“APART collective made a visit to the region of upper Nitra to film a short movie concerning coal mining and its impact on the living environment.

It is our contribution, on how we try to approach ever so more growing threat of the climate change, which became a crucial topic for us to examine by artistic and activistic means. The film elaborates on the topic of technological progress and its impact on global warming and on the contrary, the question of geopoetical writing with the planet, not about the planet.

APART Collective, Surface Depression and the Emergence of New Habitats, courtesy of hunt kastner, photo by APART collective and Dávid Bíró

APART Collective, Surface Depression and the Emergence of New Habitats, courtesy of hunt kastner, photo by APART collective and Dávid Bíró

APART Collective, Surface Depression and the Emergence of New Habitats, courtesy of hunt kastner, photo by APART collective and Dávid Bíró

What Chernobyl means for nuclear energy, climate changes means for technologies driven by fossil fuels. The way we approach our future can therefore leave nothing to chance – we must plan, think, recalculate and contextualize our existence within the planetary ecosystem. That is why we need radical political and technological imagination which pulls down the ideas of what the limits and possibilities of individual human bodies are.”

text by APART collective

APART Collective, Surface Depression and the Emergence of New Habitats, courtesy of hunt kastner, photo by APART collective and Dávid Bíró

APART Collective, Surface Depression and the Emergence of New Habitats, courtesy of hunt kastner, photo by APART collective and Dávid Bíró

APART Collective, Surface Depression and the Emergence of New Habitats, courtesy of hunt kastner, photo by APART collective and Dávid Bíró

APART Collective, Surface Depression and the Emergence of New Habitats, courtesy of hunt kastner, photo by APART collective and Dávid Bíró

APART Collective, Surface Depression and the Emergence of New Habitats, courtesy of hunt kastner, photo by APART collective and Dávid Bíró

APART Collective, Surface Depression and the Emergence of New Habitats, courtesy of hunt kastner, photo by APART collective and Dávid Bíró

APART Collective, Surface Depression and the Emergence of New Habitats, courtesy of hunt kastner, photo by APART collective and Dávid Bíró

APART Collective, Surface Depression and the Emergence of New Habitats, courtesy of hunt kastner, photo by APART collective and Dávid Bíró