Hydroponic Hovering: A speculative narrative of sustainability and the human relationship with the ground.

Sustainability is presented as one of the most effective solutions to climate change, resource depletion and environmental contamination, yet its true function is to serve as a spatial and technical fix to the ecological limits of colonial practices and anthropogenic modes of production. Composed of physical infrastructures and environmental policies and regulations, sustainability enables the expansion of extractive systems and facilitates the fortification of their borders that enclose available resources and previously marginalized ecological bodies to continuously direct them towards the projection of highest production. In 'Hydroponic Hovering', Asli Uludag explores the soilless growing technique called hydroponics, a technical object of sustainability, its colonial history and contemporary instrumentalization in Westland, the Netherlands to investigate the politics of sustainable solutions and speculate on the imagined future they are utilized to realize. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]