The Oil Tanker in 2067. A world where, surrounded by the detritus of our civilization, people group together in colonies resembling Kowloon Walled City.
As the ship breakers of Chittagong who today wade barefoot into the oily slush surrounding beached tankers and with no more than a blow-torch level the monstrous boats, these people will have only manpower. They swarm, coordinated in their actions to manipulate the many-tonned mass into a towering monument.
Is it community action, necessity, slavery, drudgery, ignorance, or organic action? Regardless, it has been with us throughout human history and will be in the post-oil era.
A screaming came across the sky…..
In the post- apocalyptic scenario the carcass of a beached oil supertanker becomes the basis for a complex human ecology. The structure is communally re- appropriated, erected vertically and embedded in the shore of a former metropolitan port. The former boat serves the dual purpose of shelter and elevated protection. An aggregate develops as the boat is mined for parts in some places and fortified in others.
As the system evolves, the structural integrity of the vessel remains in a fragile balance with the forces of reassembly, rust and human relations.
2007
ksenia chumakova
