An Animated Assembly (2025 - ongoing)
An Animated Assembly is a multi-channel video installation that presents a constellation of entities that have a stake, shape, or are shaped by the current expansion of mining and its connections with major transformations in the energy sector associated with a shift to low-carbon systems. These transformations develop against the backdrop of an enduring fixation on economic growth, transforming the challenges of climate change mitigation into a new industrial boom.
The work combines digital animation, which “activates” human and more-than-human entities, with lens-based footage recorded on location in South and North America, which anchors each entity in a specific place. In the installation, each entity is presented in a video with a unique voice, and together these voices create a dissonant polyphony.
The installation makes visible the entanglement between desire and extraction at different scales; from the local, the national and the international with all their contestable rhetoric and unequal power dynamics. By placing side-by-side political games and transnational economic investments, everlasting love and social struggle, matter and cosmic time, the piece aims to reflect the political, ethical, and ecological complexity of a landscape that is still emerging.
An Animated Assembly, 2025-ongoing. Series of videos. Video stills.
English, French and Spanish.
With the collaboration of Kevin Rodgers on the video animations. Translation by Mariana Esnoz & Leticia Obeid. Bruno Dubner : voice of the CEO.
An Animated Assembly was supported by Transitive Properties, Móvil, Hay Lugar, URRA Cerrito, the Conseil des arts et des lettres du Québec, and the Nanaimo Art Gallery.
Thanks to Sylvie Fortin, Aylén Almendra, Clara Catalan, Clemente Flores, Fundación Ambiente y Recursos Naturales (FARN), Gachi Rosati, Manuel Molina, Marcos Filardi, Melina Berkenwald, Milagros Arias, Miriam Nievas y Carlos Argañaraz, Museo del Hambre, Nicolas Rodriguez, Pablo Javier Montilla, and Pia Marcheggiani, Jesse Birch, Kerri Reid, Clara Mackenzie and the Pacific Biological Station, Jesse Gray, Scott Rogers, Troy Bright, Shaelynne Bood, and Paul Chapman and the Nanaimo & Area Land Trust (NALT).
