Utopia and Oblivion

This project investigates the possibility of expropriating the industrial infrastructure of a now defunct oil refinery for the bioremediation of toxic soils, restoration of functional riparian ecologies, and reinhabitation of the site by human and non-human life. The context of the project is based on the assumption that such an undertaking is highly unlikely under the current economic and political paradigm. As such it is situated in the distant future, the result of prolonged liberatory struggles over many generations.