NOT MINE

NOT MINE operates here, in a near-now world where the call for global transparency necessitates an infra-cultural blind. Fulfilling absolvement, it serves as a repository of nothings and plausible deniabilities where facts* actively trade in and out of the shoring up of collective memory.

Subtly but constantly, NOT MINE redefines political coastlines, extra-territorial edges, narrative trimmings, and salty alterations on its way to obfuscated sincerity. Its spectacularity is hard to love.

N00. ERASURE

in 1774 Sir James Cook records ‘Sandy Island’ at the location 19.22S 159.93E, a substantial distance from the nearest continent, but somewhat close to the clustered islands of New Caledonia. In 1876 the ship Velocity confirms its location. In 2013 a team sets out to complete a geographical survey of the island, they return empty-handed, unable to find it. An island discovered to not exist. Their conclusion: the island never existed. Or did it? Does it still?

N01. EXPONENTIAL

Administrations progress, the necessity for both physical and digital obfuscation grows. The data absolution facility expands to accommodate the tradings in and out. On the site of the recently undiscovered Sandy Island, sea water cools the constantly evolving data storage. The submerged drives crystalize salt and speed environmental deterioration. More data brings in higher quantities of salinated water colliding with its cooler, less-salinated counterpart, building a fresh layer of exoskeleton, expanding the structure and salty crust.

NO2. THE DEPTHS

Water falls, crashing hundreds of meters from pipe mouths above to the outlets below. The din is inaudible to the workers as clawed appendages shift drives. A drone, one cog in the hive, passes within nanometers of another as they swarm. Its rotors sent droplets of saltine water into the air. The particles join the steam rising up in the clouds: alto stratus. The drone is gone in the haze. Pulsating humming increases by the minute with every trade in and trade out.

addendum [N04. TETHERED]

Examining other non-places. Islands tethered to places* - the Kursk submarine, Air Malaysia flight 370, the Titanic, and the Philadelphia Experiment. These are questionably plausible new-age glaciers. Icebergs melt, sea levels rise, and junk around the world is intentionally and accidentally left to the waters - accumulating in floes and deposits of modernity, but morphing into a new normal, a new natural, the destination for wild drone flocks and the eco tourists of a new century.