人類世的到來，造就了自然災害頻傳、物種滅絕步步近逼的今日。急劇變化的環境下，讓人聯想起波西在《人間樂園》裡描繪的怪誕物種景象。若環境惡化不可逆，或許唯有演化出具快速適應環境能力的物種，才能在這愈發嚴峻的天擇中勝出，成為下一個紀元的主宰⋯⋯
在此背景下，《海漂計畫：末日遷徙》——這場實驗就此誕生，藉由「漂流」的無盡延伸，施放一顆象徵末日倖存者的海漂種子，在流浪、觀測與大膽假想的反覆交織下，探討生命在當代生態危機中的處境。
"Drifting" is an important process in the evolution of life and the search for new habitats. It allows species to travel long distances with the help of ocean currents, land on unfamiliar shores, and have the possibility of reproducing new life in a foreign land.
However, with the advent of the Anthropocene, human civilization has become a significant force dominating the environment. Human-induced climate change affects the intensity and frequency of extreme weather events, leading to the frequent occurrence of natural disasters and exacerbating species extinction. If the environmental degradation is irreversible, perhaps only species that can quickly adapt to the environment can win in this increasingly severe natural selection and become the dominators of the next era.
In this case, "SeaDrift: Eternal Migration" was born as a speculative experiment in permanent migration. By releasing our electronic device, we attempt to create a hypothetical species that can travel on ocean currents, and rapidly adapt, evolve and thrive in the extreme environment of the future. Our seed will continuously transmit signals through iridium satellites, showing the environmental data and path detected along the way, which will be combined with the existing creature’s big data and future environmental prediction for data analysis, finally presenting an imaginary species in the end-of-days world.
“SeaDrift: Eternal Migration” attempts to explore the situation of life in the contemporary ecological crisis through the endless extension of "drifting," the drifting seed as a survivor of the end-of-days generation, and the "variation" that occurs in adapting to the environment, intertwined with wandering, observation, and bold speculation.
