Poring The Ecocide

2023
Revealing Ecological Disasters Caused by the Energy Industry

The viscous porosity between natural and human-made has become increasingly clear through climate change—including droughts, fires, floods, and hurricanes. As described by Nancy Tuana, “porous events” are ecological disasters that penetrate the surface of our reality. In Poring the Ecocide, 130 virtual portals act as pores—revealing information about such ecocidical events. Entering the virtual pore exposes human-made disasters and activates evidence of individual incidents. Pores as gateways connect various computer-generated spaces that users may ramble through, collecting tokens of the symptomatic consumption of the ecosystem—the Ecophagy.

  • Poring The Ecocide: computer-generated tokens, orange and white boxes and pierced rings, drift in a navy globe of white arcs
  • Poring The Ecocide: on screen, an eye-shaped virtual pore reveals the Amoco Cadiz oil spill behind a lavender form of boxes
  • Poring The Ecocide: orange and white tokens, pierced like pores, frames and tall boxes hover on white loops in a navy disc
  • Poring The Ecocide: on screen, a magenta form with a round hole fronts an eye-shaped pore revealing the Buncefield fire
  • Poring The Ecocide: a white block pierced by a pore, orange tokens and a tiny ship engraving over a navy map of white lines
  • Poring The Ecocide: a pale blue form's round pore frames Deepwater Horizon flames, evidence of disaster on a navy screen
  • Poring The Ecocide: orange tokens, a boxy ring and a lumpy white pore with holes, sit on the white spokes of a navy decagon
  • Poring The Ecocide: two eye-shaped pores on screen, a periwinkle form's round hole revealing the Three Mile Island accident
  • Poring The Ecocide: a mustard form's round pore reveals a grey plume over sea, the Lengede mine disaster, pink boxes at left
  • Poring The Ecocide: a pale green form's round pore reveals the patchwork fields of the Fergana Valley oil spill on screen
  • Poring The Ecocide: a lime green gateway's round pore opens on a grey sea of the Odyssey oil spill, magenta stacks at left