Angeliki Balayannis – Public Experiments in Chemical Regulation

Sonic Acts Podcast

Public Experiments in Chemical Regulation by Angeliki Balayannis SONIC ACTS BIENNIAL 2022 15 October 2022 – Likeminds, Amsterdam, The Netherlands Industrial chemicals form the infrastructure of modern life. The regulation of these chemicals – in particular the dominant permission-to-pollute regime – is built on logics that produce environmental and epistemic injustices. In light of this, what kind of interventions might enable different ways of ‘doing’ regulation; regulatory experiments that instead foreground justice? Regulation remains dominantly imagined as the work of civil servants and regulatory scientists. This talk invites a cultural and political expansion of the regulatory imaginary. Attending to regulatory geographies beyond the work of regulators opens up new sites for intervening in toxic legacies. Sonic Acts Biennial 2022 took place at various locations in Amsterdam, interweaving an exhibition, sound performances and discourse programme, accompanied by artist presentations, workshops, excursions and more. As a part of the Biennial programme, the Leaving Traces symposium opened up a forum in which to become attentive to pollution’s invisible, yet harmful touch. Actively rethinking our relation to the climate and our planetary legacies, an array of artists, researchers, curators, and scholars spoke of the many faces of toxicity – from fossil fuels to plastic, from nuclear energy to chemical pollutants. The gathering staged real stories and events of exposure, thinking about ‘leaving traces’ not just as the material act of spreading toxicity, but as art’s potential to reach out and act as a disruptive force in the world. Find out more at https://sonicacts.com/archive/biennial2022 https://angelikibalayannis.com Curation & production: Sonic Acts Recording: Engage! TV https://engagetv.com Sound mastering: Monty Mouw http://flippendisks.com Design: Catalogtree https://catalogtree.net Sound logo: Roc Jiménez de Cisneros http://www.vivapunani.org/