With this collection of computational ROCKS, The Underground Division gets closer to the unstable stories of particular ROCKS as told through scientific, poetic, public and technological discourse. Recognising that ROCKS have their own lively forces and relationalities, the Division studies ROCKS' 3D imaginings, the softwares and hardwares that ROCKS intervene on and builds new glossaries on the go. These studies operate as a chipping away at what limits the collective resistance and reparative capacities of and with ROCKS. However, a great deal of stony patience is required to resist and repair the damages from the very practices which bring ore and its energies to the surface of the earth.

As an ongoing inquiry into what ROCK is, the REPO asks what ROCKS could be and in which ways ROCK is seen or considered as an entity separate from its environment. It works with the 'deep implicancies' of moving between figure and ground, asking what happens as a result of this cut, and what other formations could appear. Sharpened by queer and anticolonial sensibilities, the Division investigates the way undergrounds are quarried, measured, quantified, historicized, visualized, circulated, predicted, classified, remembered and modelled. The REPO as an instrument itself crystallizes some stories of spatial and temporal geologic processes and throws rocks through the glaciated windows of turbocapitalism.

The ROCK REPO is a device built by a team of trans*feminist post-normal scientists for thinking with ROCK. Managing rock slope instabilities by LiDAR scanning, optimising strata modelling for fracking, rendering cavities in 3D for gaming, and algorithmically smoothed rock shaders are all deposited in the REPO. The REPO inquires into these banal, exquisite, violent, static, carbonivourous figurations to fracture the normative 3D processes of geocomputation and their crushing exploitations and extractions.

The first seven amalgamates were made for Body Building (TETEM: Enschede, 2020). The 8th, Violent Amalgamations, is developed for the on-line exhibition ¿Cómo continuar? (Centro Cultural de España in Lima, Peru; forthcoming, 2020). The 9th, Sinking Alloyances + Planetary Burial, is an audiovisual installation Eco Gallery at Wat Tyler Country Park, commissioned by Metal for the Estuary Festival 2021.