SUNK COSTS: The Saga of the Felicity Ace @ Newspeak House
An evening of video essay, archival narration, speculative storytelling, and discussion on the contradictions of “blue” capitalism
Live essay-performance and discussion on the wrecks of blue capitalism.- Type
- Talk
- Location
- Newspeak House, 133 Bethnal Green Rd, London E2 7DG, UK
SUNK COSTS takes the sinking of the cargo ship Felicity Ace, which went down off the Azores in 2022 carrying nearly 4,000 luxury electric vehicles, as a case study in the contradictions of “green” capitalism, logistics, and ecological accountability. The collaborative project steered by Matthew Lutz, Jamie Allen, Delfina Fantini van Ditmar, Chris Woebken, Louise Emily Carver and Elisa Cuesta explores what happens when the infrastructures of progress literally catch fire, exposing the volatility and opacity of systems designed to appear seamless.
At Newspeak House, the team presents an evening combining video essay, archival narration and speculative storytelling, together with a playtest of a new decision theatre in development for the Unsecurities Lab at Lancaster University. The event creates perspectival cross-sections through the entangled networks of ecology, economy and geopolitics the ship moved through before and after sinking to the ocean floor, 3,000 metres down. It concludes with a discussion of global supply chains, extractive geographies and financial architectures that converge in, and are memorialised by, such wrecks.
Registration via: luma.com/ojwt9zh3
Research team:
Jamie Allen
Matthew Lutz
Delfina Fantini van Ditmar
Chris Woebken
Louise Emily Carver
Elisa Cuesta
Célestin Meunier