Audio | Narrative Presented at Dutch Design Week 2024

An inescapable monstrosity exists in living on a planet that resists knowing it completely, where our existence may be inconsequential to the Earth’s relentless forces, yet we rely on it entirely. Monstrous Earth is a conceptual proposition exploring how the planet can be mediated from an Earth-bound perspective, locating the planetary in partiality rather than totality.

The project developed as a spatialized, sonic narrative portraying the Earth as an indifferent, chaotic, and inhuman site. The speculative and disorienting script invites listeners to relate to the planet through its geological and temporal processes, amplifying our inherent entanglement with the Earth’s vast, incomprehensible systems and cosmic processes.