This year’s theme ‘Streams of Waste’ explores the dynamic qualities of waste as a moving entity. Following its planetary streams, we trace its impact on local communities and interconnected ecologies of human and more-than-human beings. In an era shaped by centuries of colonialism, we aim to critically reflect on the effects of pollution and the limits of economic growth, bringing together a multiplicity of voices.
Collective Wasteland is an interdisciplinary collective of researchers, artists, anthropologists and designers consisting of Katya Borisova, Yannik Güldner, Leon Lapa Pereira, Erik Peters and Anne Vera Veen. Based on microsolidarity principles, it aims to explore connections that bind us to people and ecologies on a planetary scale via the phenomenon of waste. In addressing this topic artistic, activistic and industrial viewpoints intersect.
‘Streams of Waste’ explores the dynamic qualities of waste as a moving entity. By following its flows, we trace their impacts on local and global communities and the interconnected ecologies of all living beings. In an era shaped by colonization, globalization, and extractive capitalism, we aim to explore the impacts and challenges of waste and the limits of current economic-centric solutions.
Collective Wasteland is an interdisciplinary collective of researchers, artists, anthropologists, and designers comprised of Katya Borisova, Yannik Güldner, Leon Lapa Pereira, Erik Peters, and Anne Vera Veen. Based on micro-solidarity principles enabling the intersection of artistic, activistic, academic and industrial viewpoints, we use the phenomenon of waste to explore the connections that bind living beings and ecologies on a planetary scale.
