Environmental identities at the ocean floor (2022)
HD video / single channel / 16:9 / 21:01 mins
A collaborative interdisciplinary project between Juan Pablo Pacheco Bejarano and Bruno Alves de Almeida, which explores the forms of life and the flows of energy that thrive on the deepest corners of the ocean floor, and their influence on our social and environmental identities on the planet’s terrestrial surface. Through a poetic and speculative narrative between two subjects, the video proposes a performative lecture that reflects on the profound impact that humanity has on the deep-sea and how it, in turn, affects human life on the terrestrial surface. Through a discussion on digital technologies, biological and technical membranes, colonial logics of extraction, cognitive processes at sea, and the categorization of oceanic and social layers, the dialogue submerges the audience towards the seabed, as both a material and a symbolic space of human and more-than-human communion.