TANK TINK / ONE

English

TANK TINK / ONE is a series of artistic discursive evenings around war efforts and their disastrous environmental impacts. Military exercises and operations not only divert resources from the fight against climate change, they also consume enormous amounts of energy and resources to create advanced war machines. They pollute and destroy environments, create mind-boggling amounts of debris and are all too often motivated by the desire to secure access to certain raw materials and resources such as water, oil and minerals.

However, there is also a cynical ironic twist: some areas where conflicts - or even just warfare exercises - have taken place are becoming so polluted and laden with explo-sive and dangerous materials that humans can no longer access them and are therefore treated as nature reserves. nature are "returned. These seem to be the first areas where man makes the earth's surface uninhabitable for himself and therefore returns it to nature as a poisoned gift. Human warfare and nature are thus entwined in a very bizarre relationship in which conflict destroys worlds The mission of these evenings is to imagine and understand the entanglement between war and climate, as abject, sublime, surprising and strange as that relationship is.

With TANK TINK / ONE Khaled and Robbrecht hijack the format of the 'creative think tank' from its original military context. Together with artists, journalists and activists from different corners of the world, they investigate the relationship between warfare and environmental crises in a hybrid and polyphonic lecture performance.

TINK TANK / ONE is a part of ACT: Art, Climate, Transition, a European cooperation project on ecology, climate change and social transition. In an era of climate breakdown, pandemics, mass extinction and growing inequalities, we join our forces in a project on hope: connecting broad perspectives with specific, localised possibilities, ones that invite or demand that we ACT.