BEST ATTEMPT (142, 192, 502)
Video, 0:36
As of 002010, and since 001999, some 10,000 shipments of transuranic waste have traveled the US interstate system alongside civilian vehicles. During the summer of 002010, we unexpectedly encountered a truck transporting waste to the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (WIPP) in New Mexico. This truck, its containers, its route, and its destination—represents our (human) best attempt to date to design for and address the reality of nuclear waste and its long-term future.
Our brief passing of this truck was a momentary point of contact with this waste, bound for deep time.
Further reading via FOP blog: BEST ATTEMPTS FOR NAVIGATING THE UNKNOWNABLE FUTURE
This 36 second video responds to the designs, materials, processes, practices and infrastructures created by humans in our best attempt to meet the force of nuclear waste’s geologic time and materiality, with contamination durations that span 1,000 to 1,000,000 years.
Related field research: SHAPE SHIFTERS: DEBRIS BASINS AND THE SAN GABRIELS
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