Raise your arms
2026
Single channel interactive videoinstallation
Raise Your Arms is an interactive video work where the audience’s movements unravel the stream of thought of an anonymous ex-climate diplomat, relying on filmed barren landscapes captured over the last five years.
Visually, the work relies on barred landscapes filmed over the last five years. Through a lifeless panorama, we accompany the diplomat's remembrances—from the first climate conferences to the appearance of green financial instruments (green bonds, carbon credits, green ETFs, and so forth), to the complete takeover of climate change negotiations by big capital. Here, the horizon of a planetary ecological future became a tradable derivative, alongside the weakening of state sovereignty through its de-risking.
These memories move alongside past climate conference logos and video-game-like sounds that evoke a playful yet pointless course of action. Circular narratives and a lack of action amount to nothing but empty promises that certainly outweigh Earth's natural reserves.