We'll Stop When the Earth Starts Roaring. The East DRC artists confronting the social and environmental crises caused by extraction

Marlène Rabaud, Congo Lucha (captures), 2019. Courtesy of the artist In the Democratic Republic of Congo [DRC], two regions are at the heart of international technological speculation: Katanga and Kivu. These two provinces have diverse cultures, histories and infrastructures, but they are also the country’s largest reserves of copper, cobalt, lithium and tantalum, which high-tech industries depend on for the production of batteries, circuits, capacitors and superalloys. Over the past centur

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