FIBER Festival 2026 Symposium: Fragile Territories

Speakers: Mariana Berezovska (Lecture), Louis Braddock Clarke (Artist Talk) The ‘Fragile Territories’ session focuses on how visual and sound artists tell urgent stories about environmental damage and its consequences for both human and non-human lives, caused by invasive forces. They explore the often overlooked aspects of the extraction industry, ecocide and war crimes through audiovisual performances and music. Mariana Berezovska researches and presents collaborations between artists and scientists who create audiovisual projects about the extensive environmental destruction caused by russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine. In her lecture, she talks about the projects Echoes of the Earth and Disturbed Ground (a collaboration between Kyiv’s ∄, u2203 and CTM Festival). A very different kind of invasion is about to unfold around the world, as numerous deep-sea mining companies are assembling their forces on the borders of unknown deep-sea ecosystems. Artist Louis Braddock Clarke introduces us to his practice at the intersection of sound, geopolitics, geology and disrupted ecologies, highlighting his newest long-term project Roving Rare Earth. Timestamps 00:00–02:53 Introduction 02:54–37:40 Mariana Berezovska Lecture 37:41–1:07:08 Louis Braddock Clarke Artist Talk 1:07:09–1:26:24 Q&A