The ENERGY EMERGENCY REPAIR KIT (E.E.R.K.) is a care and repair kit for your (and our) energy emergency. This kit explores ecological, cultural, and political resonances of the three concepts named in its title: energy; emergency; repair. The E.E.R.K. combines image, speculation, instruction, poetry, ritual and sound to riff on the ubiquity of repair manuals in our ever fragile, always broken, yet again exhausted world while interrogating the cynicism of energy emergencies declared to keep fueling business as usual. Taking mycelium as its muse and its model of an energy/communication system, the E.E.R.K. invites its users to decompose the urgencies of climate change and the injustices of racial-fossil capitalism-colonialism by speculating ritually and performatively on the political possibilities of care and repair.
E.E.R.K = a ‘repair kit’ for our energy emergency.
At SQUARE, E.E.R.Krew special agents Tsēmā Igharas and Sourayan Mookerjea activated the kit through two interactive performances. One involved a forest walk during which Tsēmā and Mookerjea introduced participants to the fungal-mentals of energy repair and care and led them through an emergency drill of the seven critical steps of decompositive mycelial networking. A second interactive performance involved interactive care instructions and hands-on training in:
- Energy Mediacy Exercises
- Nuclear Waste Safe Storage Protocols
- Signaling the Energy Emergency
- Ecological Debt Recovery Procedures
The essential sonic-care-scapes from the Kit’s “Patches” cassette tape advanced technology special feature were also presented in an installation (with big thanks to Scott Smallwood).
E.E.R.K. Team Members
Additional collaborators include Catlin W. Kuzyk, Jerome Tavé, and Kyle Lawson.
