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Inventory with Ana Alenso and members of the project group The Driving Factor
(Elisa T. Bertuzzo, Jan Lemitz, Daniele Tognozzi, Mercedes Villalba, Neli Wagner)

With tours to landscapes of extraction and accumulation in Berlin, Brandenburg and Saxony, the nGbK project group The Driving Factor stimulated discussions among a wide range of experts in June. The topic was the promise of electromobility and the 'energy transition'-especially the central but deceptive role of the lithium battery as a storage technology for 'green' energy. The tour participants not only experienced a common speaking, thinking, and perceiving of issues that are often considered too technical and abstract; they also contributed to a process of collective knowledge production whose material as well as immaterial, concrete as well as symbolic results are 'loaded' peu à peu at the station urbaner kulturen/nGbK Hellersdorf.

In their inventory in The Driving Factor storage, the project group will activate this stored knowledge and through objects and podcasts, tell stories that cut across the narrative of the harmless storage block. Artist Ana Alenso contributes to the ongoing collection with a speaker from the sound performance she realised for the tour Taube Erde (“Deaf Earth”) and discusses the challenges of artistic intervention in anthropogenic landscapes.