A Negative Infinity emerged from Forrest’s research into our economic system and his attempt to understand it as a whole. This work aimed to re-imagine capitalism as a living sculptural entity with the intent of revealing some of its key behaviors. This project looked at how the circulation of capital within a system creates areas of accumulation, points of extraction, unequal distribution and moments of crises due to expansion and contraction.
The title A Negative Infinity refers to the work of the economic geographer David Harvey {Marx, Capital and the Madness of Economic Reason} who describes how the flow of capital and the internal contradictions of capitalism (such as infinite growth), have allowed it to be resilient and flexible yet they also contain the seeds of systemic catastrophe. This project sought to contribute to a critical conversation at a time when our interlinked economic, social and ecological systems are in a dysfunctional state of flux.
Photos by Kate Bowe
The title A Negative Infinity refers to the work of the economic geographer David Harvey {Marx, Capital and the Madness of Economic Reason} who describes how the flow of capital and the internal contradictions of capitalism (such as infinite growth), have allowed it to be resilient and flexible yet they also contain the seeds of systemic catastrophe. This project sought to contribute to a critical conversation at a time when our interlinked economic, social and ecological systems are in a dysfunctional state of flux.
Photos by Kate Bowe
