[Unread Box] begins with a single, ordinary moment: standing in a supermarket aisle, and
realizing that every product on the shelf is future waste.
Two speaker boxes — one built from collected plastic waste, one from aluminum cans — sit
side by side, each playing sounds recorded from the very materials they are made of. The
crush of a plastic bottle, the clatter and collapse of a can — a soundscape of disposal,
emanating from the objects themselves.
The audience is not here to listen. They are standing in a place where discarded things speak
for themselves.
The work touches the boundary between knowing and not knowing — the
fact that every product on a supermarket shelf is future waste, something we know but never
truly face, is testified to by the materials themselves. Plastic and aluminum share the same
recycling symbol, but their fates are entirely different.
This invisible difference, the work makes sensible again — through form and through sound