#ResidencyInsights: Anaël Moïse Nkeoua aka Prince-Art, Virginia Carolina García Cataño

This residency, an odyssey of artistic and technological exploration, directly fuelled the creation of ›The Infernal Cycle‹. We are Prince Art (Anael Moise Nkeoua), a Congolese artist, and Carolina García Cataño, a technologist. Our mission within the broader IDEES project is to confront the crisis of electronic waste and relentless technological consumerism.

At PACT-Zollverein, a landmark resonating with the ghosts of past industrial transitions that links us to the same current scenario, we found the perfect environment for our collaborative project. We created a non-linear, choral performance that maps the toxic journey of digital waste from the Global North to the Global South. It exposes how this “infernal cycle” has consequences such as health and environmental crises, or social disruption, which come back to originators through nature’s own systems, by entering the food chain. By making these invisible feedback loops tangible, the work challenges the fiction of man-made borders against nature’s rules.

The result is a 12-minute performance, an immersive artistic inquiry, where we fuse scientific data, technological critique, and visceral art to provoke a deep reconsideration of interconnectedness and responsibility. The aim is to move beyond paralyzing facts, using creative action to open pathways for positive change within a complex global crisis.