Your Clicks Have Consequences

 

Katherine Melançon

With this work, I am exploring the hypocrisy of our online behaviour (and to the whole crisis of the 6th mass extinction) with our awareness of the tangible, destructive impact of our online usage: streaming among the most impactful, AI certainly close, to any quick small Google search, and here the simple impact of loading an image. We are still using these tools as though we can postpone a change of behaviour (and postpone guilt for when it's too late?). For our own comfort and conformity with the ways of being in relation right now, we just keep on clicking, liking, scrolling, searching, streaming, clouding, posting.

I use travelling as a metaphor of our ways to avoid a change of behaviour but also to bring forward our true nature: we are beings of growth, of learning, of expansion with a tremendous appetite for newness. How can humans shift these basic needs in other directions, towards more sustainable modes of being together, less destructive for his "home", the ecosystem?

The title is a play on one of Olafur Eliasson's books, Olafur Eliasson's books, Your Engagement Has Consequences, bringing it back to a more simple gesture that punctuates almost every daily life in the West, clicking.