Raise your arms
2026
Single channel interactive video installation
Raise Your Arms is an interactive video work in which the audience's movements unravel the stream of consciousness of an anonymous ex climate diplomat, set against filmed barren landscapes captured over the past five years.
Across a lifeless panorama, we follow the diplomat's remembrances—from the first climate conferences to the emergence of green financial instruments (green bonds, carbon credits, green ETFs, and so forth), and finally to the complete takeover of climate change negotiations by big capital. In this narrative, the horizon of a planetary ecological future becomes a tradable asset, while state sovereignty is weakened through de‑risking.
These memories unfold alongside past climate‑conference logos and video-game–like sounds that evoke a playful yet futile course of action. Circular narratives and a refusal to act amount to nothing but empty promises that certainly outweigh Earth's natural reserves.