Carbon Busters

The Carbon Busters set off on an exploratory journey with #the Bus to the Future! The unconventional journey went through the industrial landscape of Lower Austria. Can we identify potential gas reservoirs and carbon capture storage areas that reveal stories from the past for socio-natural futures? The round trip in Lower Austria’s industrial areas heralded the performative intervention PASSS-O by artist Ralo Mayer in dialogue with Oliver Gemballa: The Public Address System for Spells and Spelling Out.

CO2 spans geological eras and connects past, present, and future biospheres. It’s floating up there, and it’s buried deep below. It’s a ghost. It’s real. This cluster will ride a green-washed machine to proclaim a series of invocations and spells of carbon dioxide. The public might be enchanted; some spells might be broken. To speak about the present, we need to spell out various futures. A resounding of stories, magick, and other multidimensional echoes accompanies the hunting.

#bus to the future / November 23