You Are Made of Stardust and Microplastics
You Are Made of Stardust and Microplastics: Meditation for Extinction is a 25 minute embodied meditation. Using a rock-shell made from recycled #2 plastic (HDPE) and a guiding video, this piece explores the transformation of matter, deep time, and the acceptance of our own extinction.
Commissioned as part of Fereshteh Toosi's Oil Ancestors: The School of Oil and Water
School of Oil and Water is a mail-order kit to examine your relations with petroleum through a collection of artist-made objects and activities.
This contemplative correspondence school takes the form of an artist book packaged in a box. Our curriculum explores these guiding questions:
– Who is oil and what does oil desire from us?
– Is oil merely a fuel source and material for humans, or could it have other reasons to exist?
– How can we practice relating to petroleum as a vibrant ancestor?
School of Oil and Water is designed to be experienced over the course of a week.
The project is a limited edition of 50, produced in 2023. Purchase a copy at this link.
Artists: Lindsey french, Ginger Brooks Takahashi & Nica Ross, Kate Joranson, Alex Young, Liz Ensz & Skye Fort, and Fereshteh Toosi
Creative Director: Fereshteh Toosi 🔗 Learn more about the artists.
School of Oil and Water @oil_ancestors is supported by the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation’s Knight New Work Award @knightfdn
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