Plastic Fantastic at Powel School for Earth Day 2024, Philadelphia, PA
Plastic Fantastic is a 16 foot geodesic dome covered in over 6000 post-consumer water bottles and serves as the organizing structure for social relations. One may participate in the making of the dome and/or in one of the programmed events – an opening reception, a video shoot, an activist action, a public talk, and/or a sunset dance party.
As an immersive environment for play, play is of the utmost importance to Plastic Fantastic from the building of the dome to the events and alas the deconstruction. Underpinning Plastic Fantastic are concerns of basic human rights, access to clean water, the politics of water, environmental issues, recycling, self-care, and equity.
Plastic Fantastic creates possibility for social change through play, collectivity, community development and production. Through this process we improve our relationship with the everyday.
Plastic Fantastic Poster for National Folk Festival, Salisbury, MD, 2019; Poster design with Yoko TakahashiPlastic Fantastic with students from KBHIS and AMY at James Martin, Tiny Room for Elephants Festival, Cherry Street Pier, April 2019. Photo credit: Beau Monde. See process and more photos here. Plastic Fantastic, Anchorage Museum with University of Alaska, Anchorage, AK, 2014
Video: Plastic Fantastic at The Young Women’s Leadership School, 2014Plastic Fantastic, The Young Women’s Leadership School, Queens, NY, 2014Plastic Fantastic at Kensington High School, Philadelphia, PA, 2014Plastic Fantastic, 40th Street Air Space, Philadelphia, PA, 2012Plastic Fantastic, Salisbury University, MD, 2011Plastic Fantastic, Figment, Governors Island, NY, 2011; Photo credit: Roberto EscalantePlastic Fantastic, Art in the Open 2010, Philadelphia, PAPlastic Fantastic, Vermont College of Art, 2008; Photo credit: Yip Chan
