DIY Flood challenges the modernist conception of the control of nature by humans and its corollary, neoliberal individualism. Composed of a series of installations that flood domestic objects, DIY Flood “brings home” the existential crisis brought about by the environmental mess that our political and industry leaders have brought upon us. 

 

The installations in this project highlight the materialities of water and its physical, visual and auditory properties. In three of the four installations developed so far, domestic objects are suspended from the ceiling and integrated into a circuit of tubes and containers in which flows clear water, flooding each of the objects in turn. Each of the installations thus forms a unique ecosystem of domestic materialities in dialogue with water. In suspending domestic landmarks, new aesthetic and emotional assemblages are proposed in relation to flooding. 

 

The work is speculative, exploring flooding as a more or less permanent state and focuses on the threat and discomfort that water can bring on when not entirely submitted to our needs and will. Experimenting with a zero waste approach to art making, most materials included in these installations are second hand and are put back into circulation for further use whenever possible.