Bodies of Extraction: Underneath the Ground of Islands Maastricht Artist Assembling a Black Counter Culture

Assembling a Black Counter Culture reframes techno from a Black theoretical perspective distinct from its cultural assimilation within predominantly white

The publication is part of the Schermerschijn series

but it is “memories of Tattaka” for sure

and a cross-publication friendship

and interrelationships

Bodies of Extraction: Underneath the Ground of Islands Maastricht Artist Assembling a Black Counter CultureWhat does it mean to drill deep and interfere with the configuration of tectonic plates? What does it mean to hollow out and alienate islandic undergrounds? How is wealth extracted and exploited from the ground, crumbled into fragments, transformed into matter, pieces of power, moved away to be represented elsewhere? Whose lungs and souls are capitalized upon and hidden under the suffocating dust in mining shafts? To whom do the surface of the land