(2024)
2-channel video installation with sound
Filmed at Nordlys Vind, one of Europe’s largest wind farms encroaches upon the traditional homelands of the Sámi. Maneuvering the Apostles is a prompt for a drone camera to fly as close as possible to the windmills of the farm before getting pulled into its blades. The title of the work evokes the expression “robbing Peter to pay Paul,” which speaks to how one debt is acquired to pay off another. In these instances, Indigenous people are forced to sacrifice ancestral lands, longstanding traditions, and their own sovereignty for green energy projects, which are themselves solutions to problems caused by the capitalist and colonialist systems that have sought to eradicate Indigenous peoples. Accompanying the drone footage is a soundtrack of tremolo-affected bird recordings, acknowledging the trespass of the windmills into the spaces of our vertical relations.
