Palaeoplasticene addresses the breakdown of plastic in the environment over a more-than-human timeframe. Addressing the ubiquity and longevity of microplastic in the environment, Palaeoplasticene is both a multimedia installation and an online Open Artistic Research Platform presenting series of distributed transdisciplinary experiments that question the agency of plastic through “Long Time”.
Exhibited at LABoral will be a recreation of our experimental Taphonomy setup which explores through a durational experience of daily documentation the persistence of PLA 3d printed mushrooms juxtaposed against biological and weather changes. The setup is placed within specially commissioned pots by ceramicist Blake Thompson.
For 18 months I developed the concept for Palaeoplasticene with my studio’s scientists in residence Laurence Gill and Indrė Žliobaitė with the production of Andrew Newman at Ars Electronica through the Studiotopia programme. The project has resulted in three installation iterations and an Open Artistic Research Platform which documents the artistic research methods.