Project: Murphy’s Well Being

An EmerAgency “konsult” in the form of a dual-channel video installation driven by a custom multi-touch table. Performing as a quasi-corporate consultancy, the Florida Research Ensemble (FRE) looked at the Cabot-Koppers EPA Superfund site and made public-policy recommendations alternative to the scientific, governmental or corporate positions to which we are accustomed. The work proposed that a cultural emphasis on “well-being” might mitigate disaster, and that attention to the mechanism of desire might alter our current environmental trajectory. The FRE team created a “kiosk” one might expect to find in a corporate lobby that drives a database of animations, video interviews and documentary footage.