“Wasted Land establishes a link between climate change (waste production) and oppression (colonialism), as these issues are often considered to be as disconnected as they are unsolvable.”

Wasted Land uses theatre, black humour, choral composition and video inspired by queer ecology to highlight the complex relationship between humans and their waste. The musical and sung performance is inspired by T.S. Eliot’s poem The Waste Land (1923) and contemporary sociological and scientific research into the colonialism of waste. It orchestrates a melodic landscape that oscillates between theatrical performance, video projection and poetic concert.

Can we imagine a world in which societies would stand in solidarity against the injustice and oppression of all humans, non-humans and the Earth? Wasted Land combines environmentalist ideologies of sustainability in Western Europe and persistent social injustice elsewhere in the world through the prism of fast fashion, seen as one of the many expressions of neocolonialism. Fast fashion links the West, which consumes according to criteria of the good life, to developing countries that produce at low cost and, in return, accumulate globalised waste.