"Resonant Oil" is a multi-channel sound installation consisting of six speakers and 5 tactile actuators, housed inside oil barrels. Oil sits atop the lids of the barrels and is displaced by the sound waves diffused from beneath.  

Oil, because of its physical properties and derivatives, is a substance that has developed infinitely complex networks around itself. "Resonant Oil" seeks to highlight the vital materialist view that materials are not inert and passive 'things' but rather have agency. It is an actant exerting its force through the assemblages that it participates in.  

Its consumption and demand has lead to a kind of violence towards the ecology that surrounds its extraction, and its immediate effects encompass unprecedented ecological catastrophes as well as human rights violations and oppression.  

In "Resonant Oil" the case of the Niger Delta is told through voices emanating from the barrels, speaking through the oil, revealing morsels of the struggle of the environment and human right abuses as a direct result of oil extraction practices.  

Speaking to the senses "Resonant Oil" also seeks to expose the properties of oil through direct exposure / contact with the audience. Its smell, viscosity, reflectiveness, can be experienced in an attempt to become acquainted with this substance that so much of our culture depends on.