When I started ENERGY⋮PANGEA in late 2010, the idea was simple — build a new system of relational activity between objects, the environment, and an emerging consciousness in the collective human psyche, a system that aims to move away from the dark, often apocalyptic renditions of planetary crisis and late capitalism that was prevalent in my earlier projects like POST.CONSUMER.CULT, PHILIPS 2013, and Old Earth Objects. I then came across the list of 17 Rare Earth elements. Beginning with Neod...