Originally commissioned and curated by Kaitlynn Webster in 2020, ‘The Earth dies Screaming’ endured a complex planning process during the 2nd Covid lockdown and was finally exhibited in December 2021. Using video appropriated from found sources (US Army and US/UK Civil Defence) as well as a new video piece (filmed at Abbeyshrule Aerodrome), Austin reflects the critical concerns of the Nuclear Age with an analog aesthetic. Creating a cacophonous space, the audience is encouraged to submit to the confusion of surround and monophonic noise, images of nuclear technologies and resistance to them, systems of command control along with magic and unreason, maps of the future that never happened. Within these, there are details: human, pastoral, joyous and cruel which an audience might anchor to.