Sound Design
for the Exhibition
at
Hošek Contemporary

White Gold, Rubber Fever is an anti-disciplinary exhibition and performative installation that traces rubber as both material and metaphor. The trees bleeds latex in response to harm, only to be fed back into the very industries that keep it captive. From tires to weapons, rubber is a symbol of globalised desire, ecological devastation and ideologies of extraction.

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concept and performance: Marque-Lin, xindi, Elif Soğuksu
field research, dramaturgy: Marque-Lin
visuals, pictures: xindi
sound: Elif Soğuksu
text: Marque-Lin
pictures: Mari Vass

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Listening is a way of attending. Not only rubber laborers have stories, but also the trees, the milky liquid latex, the soil underneath, and all the living and non-living beings that have a symbiotic relationship with the ecosystem of rubber tree harvest. They vibrate through the melodies of workers humming to them, they are attuned to the exploited and enslaved minds and bodies, and they speak ventriloquistically through the rhythm of labor. Rubber as a material invites the concepts of transformation, process, elasticity, tension, and release. It resists, it adapts, it responds. Rubber has a memory; it remembers. Rubber is a wound; it stretches until it snaps. The voices of this ecosystem speak from the world and tell us about themselves and the world; they call out, call upon others to listen, to think. How could one attune and attend to these stories, making them audible to enhance our understanding of coloniality and labor exploitation?