Liminal S01Ep04: From Caraïbes to Andalusia with Antonio Palacios Rojo about water issues and disasters

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Former journalist and now artist and researher

Antonio introduction https://palaciosrojo.neocities.org/, with more than 15 years of experiences.

Combining knwoledge and skills, mixing approaches, it’s about creating and running investigation with a special angle.

Webs of Water 2025

Our first meeting was during an Online Activations Series named Webs of Water by Ocean Archive with facilitation from Exposing The Invsible.

During this event Antonio worked on submarine cables.

Music Break 1

Guadiamar River, Guadalquivir River, and the park’s aquifers: Contamination & exploitation

In Andalusia, Spain, since the Guadiamar River, which has faced heavy metal contamination issues since the mid-19th century from the Castillo de las Guardas and Aznalcóllar mines and then Doñana disaster in 1998, it’s a continuing disaster with new industrial rules and new mining contracts.

Giant Fires, Aerodrome for military drones, intensive farming, drought and climate change, abandoned mines and new extraction sites, Antonio tells us all about it and explains the material reality of a region that is also of vital ecological and human importance.

References

Texts and photographs he took documenting how the March rains reveal the contaminated soil of the green Guadiamar corridor and how the water takes on a turquoise colour revealing that it carries metals from the former Aznalcóllar (Boliden) mine.

Music break 2

Casa Quemada, Paseos Artísticos Por El Colapso Ambiental Andaluz

Facing the calamity How a project that combines art and investigation to provide new ways of understanding cases and history, and where this approach can give us the means to take action?

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