Heavy Metal Clouds

Let me whisper into you, oh stone of wisdom.

Take my secret and carry some of my burden.

Autumn 2024 artist elieli went on a trip, a trip to visit one of the world’s most toxic lakes-the Baogang tailings dam in Inner Mongolia, a lake filled with the extractions of rare earth minerals. Those minerals nesting in all of our digital technologies.

They went there, despite the recommendation against it by the embassy, journalists and cultural attaches, the Chinese government are not always happy with people prying into their land. An obsession, a sort of pilgrimage to visit this deity. They came alone, bringing flowers, gifts and offerings of incense and sugar. The dark heavy presence of this lake stayed with eli loooong after they left it. Its there with them every time they look into a black screen.

This performance lecture is a sort of digital séance, sharing their findings, their obsessions, and maybe, together, conjuring the spirit of the lake and the digital spirits nested in all of our haunted technologies.

By and with elieli

In collaboration with Baogang tailings dam

Support by: Konstnärsnämnden // Helge Ax:son Johnsons stiftelse // Kulturbryggan // Skogen Masthuggsterassen // Ställbergs gruva

Thank you to: June Yu // Carolyn W. Strauss // Glada Sprutan // Alice MacKenzie // Kim Ekberg // Duruo

About elieli:

elieli is a choreographer and multi-disciplinary artist who navigates through a field of philosophies on relationships, entanglement, as well as ideas about unrooted and nomadic practices. Eli works with scores of mapping and listening to subtle changes/shifts of bodies; Bodies in landscapes, in materials, in beings. Bodies in power and identity. How one thing is never disconnected from another and how we "change everything we touch, and everything we change, changes us". In 2019, Eli graduated in choreography from SNDO (School for New Dance Development – Amsterdam University of Arts). Eli is an active artist at Skogen, Glada Sprutan kollektivet, and Fylkingen in Stockholm, among other places.

To see more on elieli's work elieli.se And on the project

ALSO ON THE EVENING: Garden Loops & Yana Deliyska will exhibit the installation Geological Sweat

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FOOD BY GARDEN LOOPS

Efter föreställningen serverar vi middag. Stanna gärna och ät med oss och konstnärerna.

After the performance, we will serve dinner. Please feel free to stay and dine with us and the artists.

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💸Donations instead of tickets. We gratefully accept donations for food, art, and beverages. Workshops and study groups are free of charge unless otherwise stated. Read more about our approach here. 🪙 Swish nr 123 388 4772