DISCARD CULTURE
As much as our society is fuelled by consumption, it is founded upon waste. Globally, we turn resources into waste faster than we can turn waste back into resources. And yet, we conspire to make waste invisible. So, I ask:
In what ways does waste shape the world?
One by one, we throw away everything that we once called “ours”. The truth of our culture is that we are surrounded by things waiting to become trash.
How do we relate to the things we get rid of?
From documentary film to photographs, public installations to graduate seminars, my creative work has been centered around exploring a global culture unknowingly defined by what it discards.
Our Desires Fail Us
This large-format photo series by JP King and Sean Martindale confronts the psychology of a disposable way of life.
SWMS-AiR
In 2017, Sean Martindale and I helped the City of Toronto pilot an Artist-in-Residence program within Solid Waste Management Services.
There is No Away
Sean Martindale’s immersive installation of recycled matter for Toronto’s Nuit Blanche (2015), including a multi-channel video by JP King.
Solid Waste
Solid Waste is a sensory ethnographic documentary film that goes behind the scenes at ten of Toronto's municipal waste management sites.
Materialists Anonymous
A tiny book that rewrites the classic twelve steps of recovery to frame consumption as a type of addiction.
