Cara Mayer
Studio for Immediate Spaces
Biography
Cara Mayer creates narrative radio blending research-based audio essays with evocative sonic collages. Her focus lies on using sound to explore space as a metaphor, fictive possibility, historical artifact, and political reality. She DJs as Cardboard Lamb, is a resident at Mutant Radio, programs for Radio Tempo Não Pàra, and has collaborated with Operator, WORM, Rewire, and Sonic Acts.
23,000 Wild Boars Along the Train Tracks: Consumption, Corruption, and the Commodification of Waste across Amsterdam and Rome.
This audiovisual installation investigates how our attitudes towards waste as abject, transient objects create conditions in which crime flourishes across waste management infrastructure. Taking the invisibility of waste as a starting point, my work tells the story of mysterious fires at garbage incinerators, a spectacular scandal among Rome’s top politicians, 23,000 wild boars flitting in and out of traffic, a weekly train-line transporting 900 tonnes of Roman waste to Amsterdam, monopolies and white-collar crime, the myth of the bin, and the commodification of waste into a multi-billion euro global industry.