Futures in Excess
<p>Historians divide geological eras into different “ages”, and we can say that ours is the Plastic Age. This human-generated organic material is now part of the natural world, as the Great Pacific Plastic Patch shows. For Daniela Silvestrin, a cultural manager and curator specialized in bioart, this is where the artistic speculation of artist Pinar Yolas starts.</p> <p>What if life started today in these plastic wreck-filled oceans? What kinds of life forms would emerge out of this contemporary primordial ooze?</p> <p>Yoldas’ <i>Ecosystem of Excess</i> is the answer to these questions. She makes us face the issue of climate change, imagining the post-human world we are increasingly building with the overwhelming amount of waste we produce. We have developed a “throw-away mentality” that has transformed us into a geological force. We need to redefine our way of thinking about nature, and that’s what Yoldas does, projecting us into a future without us yet created by us.</p>
Authors: Daniela Silvestrin
Editors: Janez Janša
Proofreading: Eric Dean Scott
Design: Luka Umek
Layout: Sonja Grdina
Aksioma Institute for Contemporary Art
Part of: PostScriptUM