DALEKO

2019 Research project at Strelka Institute, The Terraforming
Team Eleanor Peres, Anastasia Sinitsyna, Tim Nosov, Tigran Kostandyan

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.