Everything we want to get rid of, consider superfluous, or wish to forget tends to eventually reappear. So does trash.​​​​​​​​​​

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#WHATSINMYTRASH
approaches this persistence through an installative form whose content blends self-made documentary footage with fictional elements and personal narrative, creating a video music-theatre work composed of short episodes that can be experienced as a whole or individually. The project studies trash through two contrasting perspectives: that of waste pickers, who retrogradely turn discarded materials into resources and reveal the fragile line between trash and non-trash, visible even at the rim of a bin, where items may still be reclaimed; and that of trashophobia, in which waste is kept out of sight, hidden or masked inside pink, flowery containers. Across its episodic structure, the work navigates toxic colonialism, material recovery over energy generation, the right to usable waste, and the divide between corporate and social waste management. Soluble materials such as corn-starch puffs act as counterpoints to the stubborn endurance of trash, while “cuteness” becomes both a masking device and a mode of care for discarded things. Trash produced by the three fellows during their three-month residency at the ADK Berlin forms the inner bodies of the characters. The installation itself avoids generating new waste by forgoing single-use materials and relying on fully biodegradable elements such as corn-starch packing chips and a compostable biopolymer film, whose production offcuts were generously donated by NaKu - aus natürlichem Kunststoff.​