Depot for Waste Deenactment
Spekulative Infrastruktur gegen subjektive Material-Entwertung
Description
A material object is not inherently ‘waste’, but only becomes defined as such through its spatial and social context. The symbolism of gestures such as discarding or storing in bags and bins devalues materials by rendering them unrecognizable, invisible, and heaped into an undifferentiated mass.
The ‘Depot for Waste Deenactment (DfWD)’ reverses these gestures and their social attributions, processing discarded material back into specific objects. All objects go through a protocol of material care: inspection, sorting, cleaning, documenting, cataloging, and storage. These steps function as productive rituals that dissolve the status of the individual objects as waste and make their potential visible and accessible again – without altering them.
So what do we see when we attempt to unlearn ‘waste’ as a category and encounter the things it consists of anew?
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