Alex Selmeci & Tomáš Kocka Jusko

Several tame tools, gadgets and instruments are presented in the various stages of their lifespan. They appear to be used by a fictional courier service and provide a means to collect, gather, transport, sunshade and orientate in an environment that is gradually re-wilding itself.

The "demonstration" of these tools, which appear both as artefacts, remnants of a bygone era, and as models, prototypes yet to be realised, animates a speculative and incomplete narrative about the means of transportation (of information), the functions the technologies perform, the systems of circulation they are part of, and the materials they are made of. The main agents in these operations are the containers rather than the "content" they shield, carry or transport. In her essay The Carrier Bag Theory of Fiction, an American science fiction writer Ursula K. Le Guin retells the story of our relationship with technologies and the environment, proposing to redefine technology as a carrier bag, a pouch, a container, a recipient, a tool that stores, carries and protects resources, rather than a weapon of domination. While the image of a rolled-up message (scroll) as an object that remains encrypted, wrapped up in itself, comes from thinking about historical ways of transporting information, it also relates to a more contemporary feeling of incapacity caused by today's information technologies – as a user, one holds the information tightly in one's hand, but is still unable to see inside the technological "black box".