FRAUD

Phosphopraxis – nutrients are not neutral

FRAUD (Audrey Samson, Françîcco Gayardo, Gris Perla Amor, & Jefa Papi Chulo) is an undisciplinary pack whose practice interrogates UK and European legal systems that perpetuate resource- and commodity-oriented relations. For the last four years, as part of FRAUD’s ongoing project EURO—VISION, they have investigated the UK’s Critical Minerals Strategy and the EU’s Critical Raw Materials Act, to inspire and foster different cultural practices, political imaginations, and networks of mutuality and worldmaking.

In the Saari Residence, FRAUD will continue their investigation into phosphate used in fertiliser and limestone for reverse eutrophication, with particular focus on the local Siilinjarivi and Pargas mines. FRAUD’s current practice is examining nutrient upcycling schemes and their inherent limitations to be attentive to re-circularity and decomposition, or to quote De la Bellacasa, “the breakdown and circulation of matter that rebalances generation, productivity, and excess in a finite Earth”. At the core of this effort is to think materially about the “ecolonisation” of phosphate and lime extraction, their finantialisation and re-circulation, as well as their place in non-modern and traditional belief systems.

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