- Systemic changes
Daleko is a future world where the concept of waste has been reimagined through the dual meaning of its name - a spatial and temporal reference to distant imaginaries, both far away and in the future. These two facets are entangled as the future reaches back in time to revive or reject conditions of waste management on planet Earth. The concept of waste as a social, spatial and economic externality is a problematic condition that has been historically perpetuated. Another, external space where waste is sent to is a psychotic delusion. We want to confront waste streams on deeper time scales and expanded frames of value. Waste has been reconceptualised by diverting surveillance from individual bodies and objects to sense the flows and streams of matter as a valuable resource. Daleko is composed of fragments - animated science fiction - narrated from a future where specific crises of waste-as-externality have taken on entirely new value.
What if fallen rockets are the catalyst for a new form of world-park under an international indigenous treaty?
What if the whole territory of landfills surrounding Moscow Region was cultivated as a diverse landscape park?
Could hundreds of thousands of retired oil wells, like upside-down skyscrapers, be transformed into the world’s largest artificial carbon sink?
What if reusable rockets were deployed not only to deliver essential payloads to outer orbits but to clean up the plethora of space-junk floating in the cosmos?
What if using nuclear energy was as simple and safe as buying furniture from Ikea?
