In the latest round of Ghana Think Tank (currently underway in preparation for exhibition at the Westport Art Center’s upcoming show Optimism), the fertilizer produced by Serbian Company AZOTARA was suggested as a less dangerous alternative to those currently poisoning the lawns, golf courses and rivers of Westport (according to one Westport citizen’s worries).

My first search for more information on the company brought this account of NATO strikes on the dangerous chemical factory:

“In the second attack, the NPK fertilizers plant was hit and enormous quantities of raw materials destroyed. If the tank containing liquid ammonia had been hit its temperature is –33 degrees and when mixed with the hot summer air it evaporates immediately the toxic gas spreading 5m/sec fast would in only ten minutes reach the city center.”

And in a lucky* stroke, the town the Azotara Factory is based in is Pancevo, where I will be for that upcoming Biennial.

*lucky, because I need to research this place more, and being there for another art project will make that easier.

*unlucky, because the very waters the bombing of that factory polluted are those I will be wading in and using to fill the river we make in order to cross dry land.