Buck Passing

(Matthias Koole, Marina Cyrino, Angélica Freitas and Sina Ataeian Dena)

“Buck-Passing” is both a sound-theatre performance and a multimedia installation. The artists combine instrumental techniques, refined satire and critical use of chroma keying to address the intertwining of global north and south in producing criminal environmental disasters. They are interested in performing - and intervening in patterns of attribution of blame, also known in English as “buck-passing”. These are strategies to postpone responsibilities, which aim to make the crimes fall into oblivion, hinder investigations, and deviate from the essential: the care and protection of human and other-than-human life.

ICNISP: Concept.
Angélica Freitas: text, performance.
Marina Cyrino: amplified flute.
Matthias Koole: guitar electronics.
Sina Ataeian Dena: live video editing, video.