With salt in our veins/ we rumble and roll
Entering from the perspective of rocks in the Atacama Desert, the lowest rainfall area in the world, located at the edge of a remote and rare salt water lagoon, fed by saline groundwater.
The video presents a speculative storytelling, set in a digital twin of a realworld remote lagoon in the Atacama altiplana, at risk of drying out due to lithium ground water mining.
In this alt-world, the rocks come together and rise up in a collective agitation– of groans rolls and crushes of lithic resistance,
Made here for Stroom Museumnacht 2025
An offshoot from a larger project WITH SALT ANR ROCKS IN OUR VEINS, which considers the complexities of contested groundwater in the Atacama desert, as it is extracted for lithium salts to enable the green energy transition. More about that here
