Artistic intervention at the Extractivisms and Alternatives conference, University of Helsinki (online), 27 October 2021.

"water is (non)life: after empire" is an ongoing art and research work of social reproduction of water worlds. The performative actions spring from the confluence of Danube and Sava Rivers in the Balkans, and move upstream and downstream, connecting contested sites of extraction, historical commodity frontiers and their contemporary expansions, into a shared history-making. The analysis is situated in the uncertain condition of the ‘semi-periphery’ (Blagojević Hughson) – regions bound in the catching-up with the ‘developed’ world - and its specific manifestations in the so-called transition from socialism into predatory and corrupt turbocapitalism.