SUNK COSTS: The Saga of the Felicity Ace

​SUNK COSTS takes the sinking of the cargo ship Felicity Ace, which went down off the Azores in 2022 carrying nearly 4,000 luxury electric vehicles, as a case study in the contradictions of “green” capitalism, logistics, and ecological accountability. The collaborative project, steered by Matthew Lutz, Jamie Allen, Delfina Fantini van Ditmar, Chris Woebken, Louise Emily Carver and Elisa Cuesta, explores what happens when the infrastructures of progress literally catch fire, exposing the volatility and opacity of systems designed to appear seamless.

​Join us at Newspeak House for an evening combining video essay, archival narration and speculative storytelling, including a playtest of a new decision theatre in development for the Unsecurities Lab at Lancaster University that creates perspectival cross-sections through the entangled networks of ecology, economy and geopolitics the ship moved through before and after sinking to the ocean floor, 3000 meters down. We will end with a discussion of global supply chains, extractive geographies, and financial architectures that converge in, and are memorialised by, such wrecks.​​​​​​