Solveig Suess - AAA Cargo: Notes from the Undercurrent

SONIC ACTS ACADEMY Solveig Suess - AAA Cargo: Notes from the Undercurrent 24 February 2018 - Dansmakers, Amsterdam, The Netherlands --- The planetary-scale ambitions of the New Silk Road are drawing new geometries across vast regions between China and Europe. Mapping these constellations through footage, interviews, field recordings, and found WeChat videos, this lecture-performance features excerpts from Solveig Suess’s recent documentary AAA Cargo (2017). While the New Silk Road imaginary evokes a liquid and mobile world of commodity exchange, following fissures along these distribution networks, AAA Cargo encounters political infrastructures generating closures as much as openings, stasis as much as flow. Solveig Suess (Switzerland/UK) is designer, researcher and filmmaker. She studied visual communications in Glasgow School of Art and completed her postgraduate degree at the Centre for Research Architecture, Goldsmiths. She co-runs 流泥 with Sophie Dyer; an experiment