“How to manage the uncertainty of life, snares us by stoking our fears. This or that might happen, terrifying alternate worlds hedged against by the steady drip of premium payments. Fear of loss, a devastatingly powerful motivator.Both insurance and the grid are the imposition of order on chaos. But what will happen when the world is tamed? Fun fact; it cannot be, never will be. Look no further than the effects of climate change making life uninsurable. The certainties and efficiencies brought by the grid (industry by another name) exacting the real cost of rising temperatures - running a machine faster, runs it hotter. The grid shakes and shudders until eventually it’s cast off and overgrown, replaced by something supple, adaptable like a virus. This new invention destined to seep into everything and slip away from us”.

(From a text by Sam Porritt)

photography: ourtesy of Last Tango, Zürich. Photos by Kilian Bannwart.