HALDY
The audiovisual performance Haldy by Petr Hanžl and Jan Krombholz reflects the environment of North Bohemia, where the authors currently live and work. The Erzgebirge region is marked by the extraction of mineral wealth, which has shaped its cultural and environmental development and decline. From medieval tin mining and settlement development through the massive coal mining of the last century, associated with the devastation of the landscape and the disappearance of villages and towns, to the possible future exploitation of lithium reserves. In their audiovisual performance, the authors work with field recordings and videos taken in the surroundings of Cínovec and Duchcov and especially the phenomenon of heaps. The heaps are reflected here as material concentrated in one particular place, where it is mixed and rearranged and becomes a new „place of memory“. A centre in which the natural order of time and space does not apply within the framework of sedimentation over geological ages, but a new order created by the human thirst for natural resources.
Performance was part of conference Kartografie (eko)systémů