Murphy's Well-Being (2012)
Channel: Jack Stenner
Date: 04/03/2012

Trailer describing the Murphy's Well-Being installation.

In this interactive video installation the Florida Research Ensemble (FRE), working on behalf of an online consultancy, the EmerAgency, uses Arts and Letters practices to render perceptible some of the forces at work in the Cabot/Koppers EPA Superfund site. The consultation does not offer solutions, but provides the terms of understanding that empower citizens to participate in the decisions affecting their well-being. This concern, the priority of Philosophy since its inception, resonates with one of the threats to the community -- the pollution of the Murphy Wellfield that supplies the drinking water for North Central Florida (just one of several kinds of contamination associated with the site). "Murphy's Law" states that if something can go wrong, it will, and in our case, it has. The danger is not just to the community's well, but its well-being. Part of the lesson is that the Koppers disaster is just one of 1280 Superfund sites in the U.S., each site representing an environmental disaster compromising the well-being of our society.

FRE members involved with this project are: Greg Ulmer, Barbara Jo Revelle, Jack Stenner, Lu Cao, Sam Lopez, and Zach Castedo.

For more information, see:
http://emeragency.electracy.org/projects/murphys-well-being