PROJECT DESCRIPTION

Sketches on Everlasting Plastics accompanied the exhibition Everlasting Plastics, first presented as the official US presentation at the 2023 Venice Architecture Biennale, to unfold a discursive map of the histories, urgencies, relations, and preoccupations attendant to the show. Sketches explores the infinite ways in which plastic permeates our bodies and our world. Rather than making a case for or against the material, the project offers intimate and political accounts of our fraught relationships with plastic, its impact on material cultures, and the harm and possibilities it entangles for our collective futures.

As the title implies, Sketches stages an interaction: between institutions, between disciplines, between editorial and curatorial practice, between book and exhibition. The project leans into sketching as a methodology for broadening, revising, pushing the discourse on and around the exhibition Everlasting Plastics and our engagement with plastic matter and thought—refusing the exhibition as a static event and rather seeing it as an invitation to evolve the stakes of a shared conversation. In doing so, it also begins to form a working epistemology of plastic.

Sketches on Everlasting Plastics consists of contributions by Tizziana Baldenebro, Kristen Bos, K. Jake Chakasim, Sky Cubacub, Heather Davis, Jennifer Gabrys, Stephanie Ginese, Aurelia Guo, Adam Hanieh, Ilana Harris-Babou, Zakiyyah Iman Jackson, Carolyn L. Kane, Laleh Khalili, Anjuli Fatima Raza Kolb, Naa Oyo A. Kwate, Esther Leslie, Lauren Leving, Ani Liu, Adie Mitchell, Timothy Mitchell, Gabrielle Printz, Kyla Schuller, Terry Schwarz, Pallavi Sen, Ayesha A. Siddiqi, and RA Washington.

BOOK INFORMATION

Trim Size: 7 x 4.25 inches

Number of Pages: 180

Binding Method: Thread-sewn book, coverless

Paper: Holmen TRND

Typefaces: ABC Monument Grotesk

CREDIT INFORMATION

Creative Director: Renata Graw

Art Director: Renata Graw

Book Designer: Renata Graw, Lucas Reif

Jacket/Cover Designer: Renata Graw, Lucas Reif

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Other Credits: Curators: Tizziana Baldenebro and Lauren Leving | Assistant Curator: Paula Volpato | Assistant Editor: Meriam Soltan | Documentation: Anthony Randazzo

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