Hi-vis commodities: A body corporate’s toxic economy
Tessa Laird Debris Facility is a Melbourne-based entity dedicated to jewellery-in-the-expanded-field; that is, the propagation of affordable adornments fabricated from waste materials, but also permanently embodied colour in the form of abstract, geometric tattooing, installation practices, guided meditations, the imbibing of elixirs and ritual ablutions. The Facility’s verbal interface with the art world often parodies and parasitises the neoliberal cooptation of self-care. Nevertheless, the Facility’s ethics are as impeccable as the dress of its employees.