The exhibition introduces you to different Balinese people who tell you how tourism has impacted their way of life on the island. You’ll meet the artist Made Bayak, who as activist and artist draws attention to the problems of plastic waste on the island through his plasticology art.
The plastic soup that emerges in Bali during the rainy season is illustrative of a far greater problem: plastic waste is a worldwide scourge. In early 2018 Rich Horner’s underwater videos of the plastic pollution in the seas round Bali were trending on social media and on television. The videos catapulted the island to the centre of the world’s attention as symbol of a worldwide problem: we are all using too much plastic. The video resulted in a project to rid all the seas round Bali of plastic waste.
In June 2019 Bali instituted a ban on plastic with the aim of cutting plastic pollution on the island by 70 percent. Do you want to learn more about how the pollution originated? Read the article and watch the video by Dutch broadcaster NOS.
