Deep Time and Crude Resonance

Deep Time and Crude Resonance was a collaborative research creation project with Amanda Gutierrez, that investigates the petro-geopolitical and affective entanglements of oil as a material and sonic phenomenon. The project was presented as a sound installation and live performance at Momentum: Nordic Biennale of Contemporary Art (2025). The work traces the subterranean and atmospheric routes that link North America and Norway within the shifting geopolitics of the North Atlantic, to reflect on the lived material, geopolitical, and temporal politics of petroleum; its capacity to connect and divide, to sustain and erode, across Global Norths Global Souths. Through an acoustic inquiry grounded in field recording, oral testimony, and radio transmission, Deep Time and Crude Resonance proposed sound as both method and metaphor for exploring how extractive histories reverberate through bodies, landscapes, and generations.