TANK TINK is a performative-discursive program initiated by theatremakers Endiku Khaled and Joachim Robbrecht. They hijack the format of the 'creative think tank' from its original military context and invite artists, journalists, and activists to investigate the relationship between warfare and environmental crises. The contribution to the TANK TINK, developed in collaboration with Brian D. Mckenna, investigates what remains after an armed conflicts has subsided. Using forensic methods, turned towards poetic investigation, traces of warfare are being visualised and sonified. Tracing material remainders and sound recordings of military exercises, soil and artefacts from NATO testing grounds, and archival images from munitions producers, the work gives evidence of an entangled present in which military conflicts and the concomitant industry create an enduring devastation of our planetary ecosystems that goes much further than what has been admitted and publicised so far.

Participating artists:

Sara Dziri, Samah Hijawi, Chris Keulemans, Enkidu Khaled, Brian D. Mckenna, Ogutu Muraya, Caroline Ngorobi, Joachim Robbrecht, Anika Schwarzlose

Performed at:

De Balie, Amsterdam, 17 January 2024

Theater Rotterdam, 24 February 2023

Monty Kultuurfaktorij, 10 November 2022

Ecopolis, Ancienne Belgique, Brussels, 15 October 2022