HOW TO FORAGE FOR CREAM CARTRIDGES (2020)
HD digital video with audio, 12min 50sec
How to Forage for Cream Cartridges is a part of a larger ongoing project and a long term investigation into common discarded NO2 cartridges. These silver cartridges are used as recreational drugs (quasi-legal highs) and legally distributed under their original purpose. Arguably potent objects themselves, they function as traces of a contemporary gathering. Vast amounts of material are used to manufacture these, while the hype produced is momentary, they are rarely recycled. The video follows the logic of the ‘how-to’ online video genre, it both propagates and criticises practices of proxy DIY ‘emancipation.’ It is set in a reality, which is alternative to our current one where things are to be fetishised, treasured or disregarded; a reality where some kind of value is asserted to these debris-like objects. There, through gleaning-like practices of a post-industrial society, an identified individual(s) are attempting to reclaim agency over their immediate, even if the urban, environment.
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