Julieta Aranda intertwines scientific data with philosophical and speculative thinking to address issues relating to capital and digital hyper-connectivity. Her video essay articulates an analysis of how advancement in petrocultures is linked to warfare and ecological crisis. Aranda creates a montage of found images with sequences filmed at CERN (Conseil Européen pour la Recherche Nucléaire) in Switzerland, where she was a guest artist in 2017, to problematise the quest for acceleration. Emphasizing how human agency can reshape global systems currently on a path to self-destruction, Aranda points to non-human forms of social intelligence to demonstrate how alternative forms of consciousness can forge other futures.

On 29 November Julieta Aranda takes part in the Right to Research Forum, presented in collaboration with the École nationale supérieure d'arts de Paris-Cergy as part of the Creator Doctus project and co-funded by the Erasmus+ Programme of the European Union.