Sunlight Doesn’t Need a Pipeline by Dani Admiss
SONIC ACTS BIENNIAL 2022
15 October 2022 – Likeminds, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Dani Admiss looks at how a collaborative climate justice project Sunlight Doesn’t Need a Pipeline initiates a collective rethink about what forms of repair are needed in the art sector and beyond. The current solutions of climate repair are flawed; carbon accounting and offsetting practices reiterate a narrative where one party repairs for another and scarcity narratives such as the half-Earth ‘solution’ propose a redistribution that imposes violence for many and a feeling of loss for others. In her talk, Admiss talks about commissioned projects by Luiza Prado and Chanelle Adams within the context of the Sunlight project. She also thinks about how repair can be meaningful to people in their own lived experiences and communities, as well as within environments that are shaped by humanity but exist far beyond them.

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/discover/bienni...
https://daniadmiss.com
https://sunlightdoesntneedapipeline.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/