How often can we keep recharging our batteries? The treatments in this spa resort are designed to make us think about productivity and the burn-out of people and the planet. Researchers, designers and artists use the element lithium to illuminate the beneficial and harmful aspects of our constant search for energy. Our phones, laptops and electric cars run on lithium. The mineral is also used to treat all kinds of physical and mental disorders. However, lithium mining and use also contribute to environmental damage, the dispossession of Indigenous peoples and oppressive forms of social control. When the cure is worse than the disease, shouldn't we accept the limits of energy and develop new ways of living?

Geological Filmmaking stages an encounter between film and geology across their formal, material and temporal dimensions, and highlights some representational and perceptual issues surrounding the ecological crisis. It uses the geologic and the filmic as prisms through which to theorise points of exchange between human and nonhuman processes that occur on incommensurate spatio-temporal scales – yet are still intertwined. 

Departing from central issues of the Nuclear Anthropocene, the event will address the challenges of designing infrastructures for the deep future, marking contaminated sites for future generations, and strategies of dealing with nuclear waste in the Netherlands. Part of the Neuhaus curriculum, the event is organized in collaboration with Z33 House for Contemporary Art.

This Thursday Night Live! event aims to make a case for admitting the document into the practical and theoretical imaginary of graphic design.