to slip, to slide, to glitch: Navigating Uneasy Landscapes

The body of work to slip, to slide, to glitch unfolded out of Larisa Crunțeanu and Sonja Hornung’s encounters with two mining landscapes—of lignite in Lusatia, East Germany, and copper and gold in the Apuseni Mountains, Romania. The artworks, which include textile cyanotypes, handmade artificial plants, video, sound, and a repurposed bike, explore glitches in the attempts to control and repair landscapes produced by ‘green’ capitalism. The following text tells of the artists’ disorientation in relation to such landscapes and touches on what they learned on the road, before introducing one of their works: a video-essay and interview with a mining worker.