Drifters (2024)
Drifters by Nica Ross and Ginger Brooks Takahashi is a video board game, set in the Mesozoic early Atlantic Ocean. Your plastic playing pieces compose a bloom of many tiny zooplankton, who live as drifters, moving at the whims of the current and forces beyond their control. Over time they die, drifting down to the ocean floor. Here they decompose and with time, heat and pressure transform their tiny bodies into crude oil. This game offers players an opportunity to explore our kinship and consider the lived experiences of this wide diversity of species whose bodies we now call fuel.
Made as a part of: "School of Oil and Water" a mail-order kit that examines our relationships with petroleum through a collection of artist-made objects and activities.
The kit includes work by Artists: Lindsey French, Ginger Brooks Takahashi & Nica Ross, Kate Joranson, Alex Young, Liz Ensz & Skye Fort, and Fereshteh Toosi
The project was conceived by:
Creative Director: Fereshteh Toosi
To see the entire mail order kit go to the link below.
https://oilancestors.com/school/