SALVAGE

Blasted landscapes are what we have, and we need to explore their life-promoting patches. - Anna Tsing

Field Remediation: SALVAGE populates a collection of the Field Remediations Library and is a set of activities, field visits, and mediations that ask the question what comes after consumption, what is the aftermath of the consumed ecosystems, of the ‘post’ of the conference-as-consumption / negotiations-as-digestion event, and ‘waste’ as an object of governance, control and mediation. In a turn to sustainability, the ‘post-consumption’ phase of our food systems — that manages the by-products of all other system phases — is to be reconfigured to recapture waste as resource to be reinvested, a literal enactment of what Anna Tsing calls ’salvage accumulation’ processes that convert the generative and heterogeneous processes into assets legible to economics and markets.

Field Remediation: Salvage creates opportunities for dialogue between Silesians and conference participants, exploring and activating the interfaces that embed climate negotiations in the context and materiality of Silesia and Poland.

The Salvage Library, a collection of books, recipes, and objects from sites of the Polish food system is distributed in food delivery vehicles in Silesia. Catch a ride to the conference in one of these mobile libraries, and sample and learn about the past and the future of the Polish sourdough and fermentation microflora, Polish wine industry, food preservation techniques, and other wilding possibilities of salvage.

DATES: December 4-11, 2018

AT COP24: D&C Days, Hotel Diament Arsenal, Paderewskiego 35, and in specially marked cars

Field Remediation: Salvage is a project by Karolina Sobecka, in collaboration with Chris Woebken and NYU ITP, and Alexandra Skowronska, Ela Kowalska, Oliwia Olesiejuk and Anna Paprzycka form HAT Research Center (UAM).  

Field Remediation: Salvage is supported by Red Cross Red Crescent Climate Centre, City of Katowice, New York University and Adam Mickiewicz University.

** THE CATALOGUE of the collection in the Katowice installation **

**THE SALVAGE LIBRARY READER PDF - AN INTRODUCTION TO THE PROJECT**

See the SALVAGE collection