“There is no local for plastic. Instead, plastic exists everywhere and anywhere. Plastic feels infinite because it sheds every trace of particularity, every index of located space and time. It has no birthplace, no evolutionary home, no relations to its surroundings.’’ Heather Davis
In Immuna, a small village in the central region of Ghana, I am trying to find out more about the existence of plastic. Starting on a small scale, I have been investigating the process of this material from being used to reused/recycled to abused. The following questions come to my mind: Where can I find plastic? How can I categorize it? Who uses this material, and how, when and where? How is it being reused or recycled and what ways are there to maintain a material that serves such a short-term purpose but remains eternally present afterwards. How is it abused, and why does this happen to that extent? Is it possible to trace the life cycle of plastic? Are there stories to be told about plastic, or is it such a dead and empty material that it has nothing more to offer? Where, when, and at what rate does the value – the financial and emotional value – of this material change? Having determined three different settings (on land – on shore – off shore), I want to find out about the distance and time zones through which plastic travels, how it changes function, form, color and composition, and what impacts this has on a local and global scale in present and future times.
COLLABORATORS
Daniel Ahedor, Moses Denyo-Treanor, Ivy Gyimah Akuoko and Charity, John, Mensah, Esi Ata, Alice, Usman, grace, Samuel, Kojo, Ekua, Mr.Aggri, Aayas, Lattifa, Simon, Adam, Eben, Gloria, Charlotte
