Recent media sensationalization of tragic events in international waters such as the hunt for the disappeared Malaysian flight MH370 in the Indian Ocean, the capsizing of the Costa Concordia in the Mediterranean Sea and the Japan Tsunami of 2011 (that washed tons of hazardous debris into the Pacific Ocean), have consequently highlighted the impact that increased and wanton travel, consumption, and energy use are having both on our local and global environments.

Wanton Mobility is an exhibition based on circulation, consumption, waste and accountability. The artists selected for this exhibition share common interests in current socio-political phenomena and the intimate experiences of cause and effect, focusing on how each element of production or creation informs the next. The art works included in this exhibition engage the transmutability of forms and memory, revealing the volatile and transient qualities of contemporary human relationships with material forms and coastal or oceanic ecosystems.

Each work in the exhibition communicates the layered dimensions of lived experience through combinations of industrial vs. organic material output. Moreover, the works suggest how guiding symbols can inform the ways we understand and use that knowledge to relate to the fluidity of such networked environments as both producers and consumers.