Superfun

Jenny Price, Allana Ross, Aaron Owens

Superfun  measures, documents, and promotes the everyday fun facilitated by the manufacture and use of toxic industrial products, and by the clean-up of ultra-toxic chemical and nuclear waste.

— “About Superfun”

Superfun is an “alt-institution” creative practice project—developed by artists Aaron Owens, Jenny Price, and Allana Ross—that mimics the federal Superfund website and program for the St. Louis region. It connects the dots from extreme toxicity in the U.S. to Americans’ everyday fun—cars! toys! rec centers!—and thereby makes visible what Superfund tends to obscure: the ubiquity and relentless production of industrial toxics, the endemic failures of clean-up and remediation, and how Superfund actually actively feeds an economy that prioritizes growth and profits while being hard-wired to ignore social and environmental costs.

Above all, we use our Superfun goals, site map, and How-Fun Ranking system (HFRS) to showcase the inextricability of toxic racial and environmental geographies—both so notorious in the St. Louis area. Superfun encourages folks to see our everyday toxicity—and also to reckon with how it perpetuates the twinned geographies of racial inequities and eco-devastation.

 

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