INTRODUCTION

Landfill Club is a social sculpture that encourages participants to become intimately familiar with a single piece of petrochemical plastic, untangling its history and considering its long future. Participants will adopt one item of plastic and get to know it--chemically, culturally, and geologically--before recording their findings on a custom tag, which will be attached and displayed with the object. Each object will also be documented and featured in the Landfill Club Archive.

Landfill Club frames scientific study within the larger context of art, sustainability, and social sciences, offering that transformation requires hands-on creative acts to foster personal and social change.