SARA RODRIGUES
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TESTING THE GROUND
2019
March 2019

Performative installation 

indeterminate duration

Materials:
painted wooden boards
compost
soil testing kit for NPK
various sound clips


Audience members can activate the sound by selecting each of the abstract paintings / graphs in the room.
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After several layers of unraveling, the piece finishes and both the performer and audience members go outside to test the soil for Nitrate, Phosphorus and Potassium, planting seeds thereafter.


The piece served as a testing ground for its later development 'Degrees of Abstraction'.



Graph names:


Agricultural Land Deals,
top 10 investor countries

​Soil erosion

Soil degradation, 
​underlying causes

​What the world eats

Agricultural sector green house emissions

IPCC report of a six degrees celsius increase

Colour testing for Nitrate
 
Colour testing for Phosphorus

Colour testing for Potassium 


























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