Mark IJzerman (live visuals) & Sébastien Robert (live sound) - As Above, So Below (NL, 2019). Live AV performance.
As Above, So Below brings together Mark IJzerman's different ways of visualising and Sébastien Robert's sonic explorations of the La Araucanía region in south-central Chile. As Above, So Below specifically focuses on the shrinking amount of old-growth forest and biodiversity versus the increase in eucalyptus and pine plantations in La Araucanía, in which the indigenous Mapuche are about a third of the total population. Mapuche activists have allegedly been burning crops, blocking roads and setting forests ablaze in an attack on the big corporations that have taken over their ancestral lands in the last 50 years.

The activists claim that the logging industry's introduction of water-hungry pine and eucalyptus trees since the 1980's has damaged the ecosystem, as well as hurting local agriculture by reducing the supply of available water. This has lead to a decreasing amount of jobs and thus local poverty. While forests in Chile are increasing, these are mostly genetically engineered trees meant for the timber industry, with forests specifically grown for paper manufacturing and timber. Co-produced by LIMA.