Numina Gneisspecker

Petrochemical installations, power plants, distribution centres, container terminals, and ships carrying fossil fuels form the backdrop to a truck driver's reflections on a highly automated yet inhospitable landscape.

With ‘listening to the hum of distant machinery’ Numina Gneisspecker look and listen for slow violence in their surroundings. Driving through these vast industrial areas with two sideways-mounted cameras on a truck, and making field recordings to capture the sonic characteristics of this automated world, they meticu­lously document this infrastructural framework, typical for global capitalism. They find concrete beaches stacked with containers, ships filled with fossil fuels and petrochemical installations.

The installation is part of 'Catastrophic Structures', Numina Gneisspecker's long-term audiovisual research into slow violence. Presented as part of The Image Generator, the work is adapted specifically to the architecture of Kunsthal Extra City. Live electronics add a further layer to the installation, allowing the artists to shape the sound in real time within the resonant space.