Transindigenous Environmental Front for the Green Bangalore
Channel: Avtonomi Akadimia
Date: 2018-05-13

by Yash Bhandari, Clara Stella Hüneke, Dharmendra Prasad, and Joulia Strauss

special thanks: assembly of desire

Good morning! My name is Yash Bhandari and we are at Bellandur Lake, also known as "Burning Lake of Bangalore".

I would like to welcome the Transindigenous Environmental Front embodied by artists who are concerned by environmental issues through the prism of their background of "indigenous" communities,

namely Bhojpuri, in the Eastern India, or South Eastern Asia, on the bank of river Ganga, and Mari, Central Russia, at the end of Eastern Europe, in the Ural Mountains.

The agricultural by-product, straw, plays a very important role in the life and culture of my community. It resides under soil. It breaks the soil and emerges as temporal skin of Earth. The straw reappears as skin. Therefore it is permanent.

To celebrate such recursive permanence, I would like to sing and play a song from my tribe, which was recorded on a wax cylinder by the ethnological field researchers. I've learned it from the acoustic archive of the Berlin's Humboldt University.

With this song we invoke the Chemical God of the Burning Lake of Bangalore.

God of the Burning Lake, please, detox us from our political amnesia.

We breathe in the magic chemical gas, methane.

We sacrifice the last drops of water of Bangalore.

Please, oracle, show us our future. Speak through us! I see toxins: mercury, botulinum, arsenium, sarin, chlorin, cadmin, asking Yomshinger, our God of Disappeared Water, to help them overcome their disconnect from Nature. Willing to join our struggle for the Green Bangalore.

To join the Transindigenous Environmental Front and fight with us for the Basic Goodness of our Ecosystem.

Not the End